| | Thursday, 18 September | | | How likely is a US civil war? | | | | The assassination of Charlie Kirk has led to some dramatic language from senior figures in the US. This, coupled with Donald Trump’s desire to send the national guard into US cities like Chicago, raises the possibility that the US could descend into a civil war | | | | One in three Britons (34%) see a second US civil war as a likely event in the next 10 years, with Labour voters and young people most likely to say so, at 41% | | | | This compares to 40% of Americans who see internal strife as being likely, according to an identical poll conducted by our colleagues at YouGov US in June | | | | | | | There are increasing reports of a new phenomenon in British pubs: people forming orderly single-file queues to purchase a pint | | | | Overall, 34% of pub-goers say they have seen such lines forming at pub bars, including 8% saying they have seen it many times | | | | | | But do Britons welcome this new, more civilised way of ordering, or do they cherish the traditional chaos of a bar scrum? | | | | The answer proves to be divisive: 40% of Britons say they would prefer to queue, while 39% prefer to pile up against the bar and hope to catch the eye of staff | | | | The figures differ little by age, nor indeed among pub-goers themselves, 41% of whom want queues while 44% opt for the traditional chaos | | | | | | | | | | | | | |