i skimmed it for you.

a jab at brexit: "and the deliberately confusing public referendum questions citizens encounter in the voting booth." (the author attempting to rationalise away their loss)

a jab at popularism and trump: "incentivizes a retreat to the most familiar silos of unchecked information, which require and receive no analysis, leaving us susceptible to false information and demagoguery."

but other than that remarkably restrained for a verbiage riddled guardian piece