Is British politics broken?

I have been fairly quiet for a bit because I have been struggling to say anything useful about what is going on – or perhaps, more accurately, what is not going on.

You see we are living through, and in, the mother of all paradoxes: a time when everything and nothing is happening.

On a day to day basis, little of moment takes place: Tory MPs huff and puff that Theresa May must be evicted from Downing Street but bicker about how and when she can be forced out.

The prime minister and the leader of the opposition agree that people are fed up with all the Brexit uncertainty but their talks about a compromise are an epic of fatuousness.

This is the political equivalent of white noise, designed to drive us mad and distract us from trends and events that have the potential to change the way we run ourselves to a far greater extent than even the tectonic-plate shift of leaving the EU.