re: #72 wozzablog

In mainland Europe - posssibly.

But in Britain the two things people don’t talk in polite company about are Politics and Religion.

If somethings in the news people will talk about it in the pub - but political affiliation is not as much of a thing in the UK as it used to be since the tribalism started to break down after the mid-80’s.

There is a lot of political flux and lots of people willing to swap their votes around in the vast centre ground created by the Blair/Brown triangulation of Britain.

When I was growing up in the UK, polite conversation never included religion or politics.

Today, that is less the case- recall the overt anti semitic slurs made in public.

Mark Steyn, Barbra Amiel, et al, have all written on the subject.