Philosopher responds to journalist? Review of Marina Hyde's What Just Happened?!

Much-lauded Guardian journalist Marina Hyde's book What Just Happened?! is a collection of her Guardian columns from 2016 to 2023. It covers some important historical events: the British vote to leave the European Union and coronavirus. It also covers Trump in American politics. I find the opening columns overly preoccupied with the style of politicians as public performers: put crudely, can so-and-so pull off the Alpha Male or Alpha Female style (or big league politician style, if you prefer that term)? A reader with my preferences who opens the book and samples these, may well give up. (Prior to the vote, I spent hours listening to economists' predictions on the likely effects of leaving.) I find that Hyde improves in content-orientation later, interestingly engaging with arguments to do with communism and death. But I suspect there is a "rhythm" to this: a content-and-argument rich article is followed by a dip. Has someone found out that producing accessible and substance-oriented everyday actually leads to madness? (Her front cover clothing style appears to be influenced by me - though how can I prove this? Anyway, my use of such tricks of pacing is minimal, because I didn't know them!) I find Hyde very talented. The book will be of interest to historians, I guess, but I believe this is her public persona, not her, if that matters to them. And it is not exactly what I am looking for, even as comedy, though other reviewers find it funny. I have my own political comedy!