Rory Stewart
π€ SpeakerVoice Profile Active
This person's voice can be automatically recognized across podcast episodes using AI voice matching.
Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I'll tell you what that means in a minute.
Just to give you the context, Zach Polanski, who Rory had a really interesting spiky spat in this very studio when Zach Polanski was sitting here.
And Jeremy Corbyn, who Rory described in his book on politics as a man with beautiful ears.
You want to address your daughter.
Were they coming more... I get the sense they were coming more from your mother's side than your father's side.
And that was because he wouldn't condemn communism, though he wasn't a communist.
You've described for both of your parents quite extraordinary punishment for existing and punishment for their views at various stages.
So at one point, Greece was kind of such a mess, they decided you should come to England to be educated.
Your dad decided that.
Okay.
And you went to the University of Essex.
And I know that you are both β you've studied economics and taught economics all your life.
But you've also β you decided that actually economics there wasn't very good.
The teaching wasn't very good.
And you went into maths.
Why doesn't it apply to real life?
And of humanity.
So far.
I hope you're right.
I'm going to say something now which is going to really endear you to our more left-leaning listeners and viewers, of which we have a fair few.