Government should function effectively in the background like white goods. But for the past years it's been like your fridge-freezer noisily demanding attention every 5 mins, switching off for hours at a time, fiddling its definition of 'cold', and eating your food then blaming the washing machine.
Since few of us perceive government activity with any directness or even much familiarity, it could just be the case that private media companies’ noisy demands for clicks and viewers, demands that include discussion of govt, are giving it most of this tinge
