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  1. The eyes have it: Rory Stewart’s ‘magnificently strange’ Newsnight moment goes viral
    By Rachel Hall

    Clip of the former Tory MP staring intently at fellow panellist is shared widely online

    theguardian.com/politics/2026/

    #RoryStewart #Newsnight #Media #BBC #UKnews #TheGuardian #RachelHall

  2. The unmanipulated versin of #RoryStewart turning to intensely stare at the #NewStatesman's Ailbhe Rea on BBC #Newsnight.

  3. I think Rory Stewart is a 'useful idiot' of the fossil fuel and AI industries.
    #RoryStewart #TRIP #AIPsychosis

  4. #Starmer has lost the centrist dads.

    On #TheRestIsPolitics, #RoryStewart has turned in from a mildly critical friend of the UKgov to a harsh critic.

    #AlastairCampbell had gone from cheerleader to critical friend. But yesterday's episode lacked any defence of Starmer.

    The UK elections slot begins at 25mins. Rory Stewart puts the boot in hard, while Campbell nods along with no hint of defence.

    I read that as the face of a wider collapse of Starmer’s allies.

    youtu.be/xcliSqa97E0

    #ukpol

  5. youtu.be/V_5uav6DZ5g?si=A4w_uT

    Rory Stewart gives a clear explanation of what's happening in the Iran war and why the UK should have no part in it.

    #Iran #UKPoltics #RoryStewart

  6. @ReggieHere I don't think this is about the substance of policy. Rory has made big policy shifts.

    AFAICS, this is about #RoryStewart's enduring belief in HOW policy should be formed. Rory wants posh-spoken, well-connected, clubbable chaps in universities and think tanks to form policy in the way they always have.

    #ZackPolanski bypasses all that. He challenges not just policies, but the role of chaps like Rory.

    Rory is angry because Polanski makes Rory redundant.

    @christineburns @ChrisMayLA6

  7. #RoryStewart & war criminal #AlistairCampbell had a play-fight in #TheRestIsPolitics, blaming each other for the the UK's 1-ship navy comedy. The so-called "#RoyalNavy" has only ship to send to the #Mediterranean, the #destroyer #HMSDragon.

    But the real #comedy is that the boys think this is somehow bad. 🤣

    The #BritishEmpire is gone. #Thatcher formally abolished it in January 1983.

    And without the spoils of Empire, #PerfidiousAlbion can't afford a blue water navy.
    It's cosplaying.

    #ukpol

  8. "You'll get even friends of Alistair on the left saying, the [US] Democratic Party could have won if it hadn't leaned so hard into [identity] issues. And actually what they need to do is move away from those issues, become more relevant to everyday voters ..."

    #RoryStewart, 2025

    alastaircampbell.org/2025/08/1

    If there really are people on the left saying this - that specific angle - I'd love examples. Because to me that sounds more a never-Trump centre-right critique of the progressive left.

    (1/?)

  9. "It's so refreshing to be able to talk honestly about these things now that everybody [here has] left politics ..."

    #RoryStewart, 2025

    alastaircampbell.org/2025/08/1

    Well, isn't that a revealing statement?

    Yes, I did unsub from The Rest is Politics in protests at their shameless shilling for HP. But I stumbled on this 2-part interview with former SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, which intrigues my Scottish diaspora roots, and it's well worth a listen.

    #podcasts #GoalHanger #TheRestIsPolitics #Leading

  10. #RoryStewart is dead right on #BBCNewsnight
    Far too much time spent on Andrew Windsor, far too little spent on Trump's destruction of the world order.

  11. #RoryStewart is totally out of touch. Parliament can still deal with all those other issues but what Andrew did remains relevant—it speaks to the heart of how powerful men get away with crime. He seems to think that because this happened before 9-11 it shouldn’t consume our time. #Newsnight #BBC #BBC2

  12. I would just like to share how grateful I am that advertising-funded podcasts like @RestIsPolitics to have normalised the use of VPNs

    Having Rory Stewart and Alistair Campbell pitch for NordVPN in earnest and politically aware tones several times every week for the past couple of years, has made it very hard to demonise encrypted network communications.

    I applaud this.

    Speaking as an actual information security expert, I have always considered VPNs to be something of a snake-pit and I have made a point of not using them, seeing as the only legitimate benefit of them to date has been “watching TV and listening to radio as if you were in another country”

    Regrettably, that has now become a very legitimate use case in the United Kingdom.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRestIsPolitics/comments/1duq5wb/nordvpn_ads/

    #AlistairCampbell #nordvpn #onlineSafety #onlineSafetyAct #podcasts #RoryStewart #theRestIsPolitics #VPN

  13. "... I increasingly see [politics] in terms of social justice, inequality, not really addressing poverty in our country, not really addressing the homeless ... I would have loved to see a Labour government come in that [centres] those things ... and one if the reasons I'm underwhelmed, to be honest, is that it does feel a bit austerity-lite, and not a million miles from where Cameron's conservatives were."

    #RoryStewart, 2025

    alastaircampbell.org/2025/05/q

    #podcasts #GoalHanger #TheRestIsPolitics

  14. This was a joy to watch: #JonStewart and #RoryStewart in conversation yesterday about the state of US political institutions, about the current “shadow world order”, and about the internal contradictions in Trump’s tariff claims. Smart people, talking smartly and seriously, but keeping their hope and their humour up!

    #politics #uspol #TheStewartBrothers #FourPoints

    youtube.com/watch?v=at-smySDPN

  15. "I talked to a Yale colleague called Amit Khandelwal yesterday, who has done really detailed research on ... what happened last time Trump brought in tariffs. And before he did this research, economists believed that if you put up tariffs, a lot of the cost would be borne by the producers."

    #RoryStewart, 2025

    alastaircampbell.org/2025/04/3

    (1/2)

    I certainly thought that was a possibility, and said so here a few times.

    #podcasts #GoalHanger #TheRestIsPolitics #tariffs

  16. I just finished this audibook, “Politics On The Edge”, read by the author Rory Stewart.
    An excellently written account of life in politics - and I can highly recommend listening to the audiobook as Rory is an entertaining reader.
    If he had become PM rather than Johnson, the UK would be a different and (most likely) a better place. Intelligence, a moral compass, humility plus a sense of humour are rare attributes amongst politicians.

    #ukpolitics #rorystewart #conservatives #audiobooks

  17. #RoryStewart sieht den Tag heute als den Sarajewo-Moment unserer Zeit. ("The Rest is politics" livestream)

  18. "When you think about who could replace Alexei [Navalny] and what the opposition could look like in the future. What is a model, or a way of understanding how, over the next five or ten years, people can challenge Vladimir Putin and create a different Russia?"

    #RoryStewart, 2025

    "It's not about person, it's about procedure."

    #YuliaNavalnaya, 2025

    alastaircampbell.org/2025/02/1

    Good answer.

    (1/?)

    #podcasts #GoalHanger #Leading

  19. "There will be other people who will say the Israeli public have no appetite at the moment for any conversation about a 2-state solution ..."

    #RoryStewart, 2025

    alastaircampbell.org/2025/01/1

    I'm sure the German public, at the end of WW2, had no appetite for any conversation about their country being cut in half and put under the control of foreign empires.

    Under the circumstances, the international community needs to insist on a 2-state solution. Whether the Israeli public like it or not.

  20. It’s a bit of a long read, and I hope within the bounds of reasonable use, but I was reading #RoryStewart’s book #PoliticsOnTheEdge and found that time he wandered into #ParanoiaRPG

  21. Former Tory cabinet minister #NickyMorgan says party should suspend candidates under investigation over election bets

    A reminder, for those who've forgotten or are too young, of what a decent #toriesOut looked like.....

    Now no longer welcome within their own party

    See also - #BaronessWarsi
    #DominicGrieve
    #RoryStewart

    theguardian.com/politics/live/

  22. #WhatchaReadingWednesday

    I have a weirdly resonant combination going right now: Orlando by #VirginiaWoolf and Politics on the Edge by #RoryStewart.

    Both involve a complex blend of painful satire and idealism, as well as lots of chuckles.

    amp.theguardian.com/books/2023

  23. I quite like #RoryStewart, flag-bearer of the 'sensible' #Tories, but reports he'd be willing to serve in a #KeirStarmer cabinet will do little to stem the criticism(s) that Starmer's tack to the centre is becoming worryingly close to Labour becoming a sort of One-Nation Tory party occupying a centre-right ground.

    This will compound concern(s) about #WesStreeting's ideas on the #NHS.

    If you needed further evidence of the stranglehold the right wing press have over #politics this might be it!

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