This is a very depressing read. Stewart clearly has a deep love of the UK and it’s institutions, but describes his experiences of how its politics have been completely hollowed out. All the incentives are wrong, power is not truly in the hands of either the people that claim to have it or should have it. People are only interested in their position, and no one seems interested in the actual improvement of people’s lives. It ends with the rise of Boris Johnson and populism arriving in the UK.
I guess the only way this stuff can be fixed is people actually being honest about the situation so in a sense is hopeful to have things like this written.