The cover of Eoghan Murphy’s searingly honest memoir, Running From Office, carries a quote from Rory Stewart, the former British diplomat and politician who has relaunched himself as a commentator and podcaster. The book, according to Stewart, is a “wonderfully engaging, honest and witty portrait of the humiliations, idealism, nobility and banality of democratic life”. On a superficial level, Stewart is right. The book is all of those things, something even Murphy’s most ardent political opponents would accept. But it is much more than a whimsical wheeze through the rise and fall of a millennial politician. At its core, the…

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