#rorystewart — Public Fediverse posts
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#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.
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Just discovered President Alexander Stubb interviewed on the Rest is Politics Podcast: nice hearing three smart people talking about global politics from my own "home" perspective.
Also interesting to see how much more freely he speaks about his own political career in such a context than if the audience was the Finnish media! 😀🥸
#InternationalPolitics #AlexanderStubb #Finland #RestIsPolitics #RoryStewart #AlistairCampbell
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https://youtu.be/V_5uav6DZ5g?si=A4w_uTV8jzUP135D
Rory Stewart gives a clear explanation of what's happening in the Iran war and why the UK should have no part in it.
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#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. -
#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. -
#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. -
#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. -
#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. -
"It's so refreshing to be able to talk honestly about these things now that everybody [here has] left politics ..."
#RoryStewart, 2025
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.
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#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
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How to live a good life in difficult times: Yuval Noah Harari, Rory Stewart and Maria Ressa in conversation https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/04/how-to-live-a-good-life-in-difficult-times-yuval-noah-harari-rory-stewart-and-maria-ressa-in-conversation #Philosophybooks #YuvalNoahHarari #Politicsbooks #Climatecrisis #Societybooks #Socialmedia #RoryStewart #Technology #MariaRessa #Politics #Society #Culture #Books
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How to live a good life in difficult times: Yuval Noah Harari, Rory Stewart and Maria Ressa in conversation https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/04/how-to-live-a-good-life-in-difficult-times-yuval-noah-harari-rory-stewart-and-maria-ressa-in-conversation #Philosophybooks #YuvalNoahHarari #Politicsbooks #Climatecrisis #Societybooks #Socialmedia #RoryStewart #Technology #MariaRessa #Politics #Society #Culture #Books
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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
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"... 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
https://alastaircampbell.org/2025/05/question-time-has-the-us-underestimated-china/
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"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
https://alastaircampbell.org/2025/04/395-trump-xi-and-how-china-outsmarted-america/
(1/2)
I certainly thought that was a possibility, and said so here a few times.
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"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
https://alastaircampbell.org/2025/02/121-yulia-navalnaya-the-woman-who-could-bring-down-putin/
Good answer.
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🔴 #RoryStewart's shocking story about #Britain's ‘deep state’ - #MallenBaker
https://youtu.be/BRkoYHZOGcw?feature=share #UK #Politics #News
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"if we can do much less than we pretend, we can do much more than we fear."
Rory Stewart
on populism,
{the reason Trump/Johnson were found so appealing is that they were funnier than their rivals}
Aristotle...A lecture by #RoryStewart recorded on 8 June 2023 at The Old Library, Guildhall, London
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCSlNrI4nhY&ab_channel=GreshamCollege
Brilliant lecture, circulated on You Tube by #GreshamCollege, to whom many thanks - I have subscribed to their channel, having seen their impressive range of speakers.
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Politics on the Edge by Rory Stewart review – a ringside seat for mayhem
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/20/politics-on-the-edge-by-rory-stewart-review-a-ringside-seat-for-mayhem?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#RoryStewart
#AlanJohnson -
And talking about #climateaction, a question came about #citizensassemblies. #RoryStewart replied they were great and did a better job than #Parliament, giving the example of #abortion legislation in Ireland. Would he be ready to actively support #directdemocracy and shoot himself in the foot? I think not.
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#RoryStewart is talking about people stuck in the old world, yet he uses #Liveaid & #ComicRelief’s decline as a measure of moral dereliction because “they don’t draw the interest they used to”. How about people are more aware that #internationaldevelopment is an enabler of #colonialism & exploitation?
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Interesting how #RoryStewart is throwing #DavidCameron under the bus in his #GreshamCollege lecture about #populism, accusing him of having been stuck in the Old World and being unable to adapt, while totally being blind to his own role in the #Tory party.
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There used to be some decent ones - wrong-headed, sure but #johnMajor #roryStewart #theresaMay and others were at least honest
Even on the #right they were not #corrupt like their modern equivalents - I can't see #enochPowell being sacked for #corruption (moral corruption, sure - but not putting his hand in the till.....)
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Listening to Rest is Politics talking about ageing population. Apparently when the old age pension was introduced, there were 12 working people for every retired person, and now that figure is 2.5.
Controversial opinion: we should not be afraid of raising the statutory retirement age as life expectancy increases. In exchange, the state should commit to ensuring life expectancy is neither a postcode or demographic lottery.