Commentary
Traveling to Portugal in early April, I came across an English-language newspaper serving the country’s Algarve region.
The Portuguese paper reported on a Positive News Magazine summary of a recent King’s College London study that found the UK is “becoming more liberal.”
Positive News reported that Britain is now among “the world’s most progressive nations.” The King’s College study declared that “following huge shifts in attitudes on homosexuality, casual sex, abortion, euthanasia and divorce,” the UK now ranks as one of the world’s most socially liberal countries.
A report accompanying the release of the survey analysis by the Policy Institute at King’s College London provided more detailed statistical evidence of Britain’s progress. The last 40 years appear to have produced significant shifts in social attitudes….