The report holds value not as a piece of opposition research but as a frank examination of the U.K.’s Russia policy since the turn of the century.

Putin has diffused political power enough that elites should feel reassured they will wield influence after 2024.

Neither Labour nor the Conservative Party is willing or concerned enough to spend political capital to prioritize reviving U.K.–Russia relations.

The president reduces Russia’s youth and the internet to pawns in someone else’s arsenal.