Is the rise of right-wing media and its financial dominance a danger to British society?

Yes prevailed 36 to 31, an eight-point margin that sits closer to a coin toss than a verdict, on a question that asks voters to render judgment on GB News, TalkTV and the economics of a fragmenting media market.

The chamber split hardest by age, not gender. Voters aged 25-34 backed Yes by 68% (15 of 22), and the small 16-24 and 65+ groups leaned the same way, while 35-44s went 36% Yes and 45-54s 40% Yes — the only two brackets where No actually won. The 55-64s split dead even at 6-6.

That midlife dissent is the more striking pattern given the rest of the chamber's tilt, and it cuts against the instinct to read this as a simple young-versus-old culture clash: it is younger and older voters bracketing a sceptical middle. Gender told a milder version of the same story, with women breaking 64% Yes (7 of 11) against men's near-even 52% (23 of 44) — enough to tip the overall margin, not enough to explain it alone.

A result this tight, on a question about media power and impartiality rules, reads less like consensus than like the fragmented market it describes.