Rory Stewart

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267 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 3d ago

Rory Stewart’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 206. How Putin's War Changed Finland Forever (Sanna Marin) · 13 Sep 2026 podcast

Can you explain this phenomenon? voice-verified

What's happening here? voice-verified

How would you respond to this? voice-verified

Exp I'm a former politician and one of the things that I notice interviewing politicians is some of them feel that politics today is actually quite painful. voice-verified

It's a pretty unpleasant job. voice-verified

You know, I I left politics after ten years. voice-verified

I have no intention of going back. voice-verified

I don't want to do this again. voice-verified

I wonder how you felt what what is the lived experience of being a politician? voice-verified

How would you communicate the emotional experience of it? voice-verified

So I was talking to a a British uh minister, former minister very recently, and he was just saying that looking back on his time, he just felt so frustrated. voice-verified

I mean, he wasn't prime minister, he was a cabinet minister, but that he couldn't get things done. voice-verified

And so often he was in a portfolio and then he was moved to another portfolio, or the system just didn't believe in what he was trying to do, or that things that he cared about voice-verified

The system didn't care about, so that he felt it much, much more frustrating than he imagined. voice-verified

I mean, he thought that it would be more like going into an NGO or a business where you would come in and you'd have a clear plan. voice-verified

It actually his experience was incredibly depressing. voice-verified

I don't know whether that's something that you feel that's something in the structures of politics which often makes it quite difficult for people to actually bring change. voice-verified

We interview leaders from Nordic countries. voice-verified

We've interviewed the Finnish president recently. voice-verified

We've interviewed, I think, most of the Nordic leaders. voice-verified

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