Rory Stewart

India missed its chance to step up for the rules-based order.

It invited Putin famously to come visit them.

So I would make the core of an argument for a values rules-based order.

Probably I'd go to New Zealand before I went to India.

But you've got to work on how on earth we hold Europe together.

What's so sad is that again and again... You, yeah, I've given you the job.

Again and again...

There's this splintering.

Exactly the moment where you want Mertz and Macron.

It's really weird.

And also, they were not as supportive of Spain as they should have been.

It looked like Mertz was kicking the Spanish.

And interesting, Serbia, your friend, Eddie Ramer in Albania, writing op-eds saying they're prepared to sign up for the single market without full membership or some sort of outside.

But yeah, if this is going to happen, and this is, of course, what Europe's enemies are betting on,

from the US to the rest of the world, is that Europe will always be too divided and too incapable of developing a common vision.

And thank you to everyone who's been signing up.

We have a huge rise in number of people.

And I just actually got three friends in the Gulf writing in saying how interested they'd been in some of the recent newsletters.

And yet, but paradoxically, a bit like Scotland makes you feel more European, but doesn't necessarily mean the United Kingdom breaks up.

Good.