Does marriage equality strengthen British society?

What's notable here is less the margin than its shape: this is a verdict without much of a culture-war contour left in it. Marriage equality has been law for over a decade, and the vote reads like an settled question being reaffirmed rather than fought over again, yes carrying every age group and both sexes comfortably.

The closest thing to a divide is generational, but it barely deserves the name — the 25-34s were the most convinced of any cohort, while the 35-44s and 45-54s, the parents-and-mortgages generation, were the most reluctant, dipping to around six in ten. That's a gap of degree, not direction: even the most sceptical bracket still landed clearly on the Yes side.

The result tracks the polling record on this issue for years — support in the 70-80% range whenever pollsters have asked since 2014 — suggesting the platform's self-selected crowd, for once, isn't far from the country it claims to sample. Where other rights questions split Britain down tribal lines, this one, a decade on, mostly just gets a shrug of agreement.

The rare referendum where the story is the absence of a story.