Rory Stewart

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22,825 appearances 85 recordings 4 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 9 Sep

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

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The Rest Is Politics · 558. The 'Cockroach' Uprising and Should We Stop Data Centres? · 29 Jul 2026 podcast

But there are some real, you know, people, the poorest sectors of Delhi society out there saying, this is the police that demolished my home. voice-verified

I don't care a damn about surveillance. voice-verified

Hit me with people filming it. voice-verified

Okay, here's a question for you. voice-verified

What's the median age in Nigeria? voice-verified

Amazing. voice-verified

It means every time you have an election, almost everybody voting has had nothing to do with politics before they vote. voice-verified

It's extraordinary. voice-verified

Wow. voice-verified

And also completely miserable preparation. voice-verified

I think the cramming and the pressure that you're under from society, parents, and from yourself, and the number of hours you're putting in over years to just get there. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

Maybe you've put your finger on it. voice-verified

We keep saying we're going to do more on demography, but you're completely right that if you put the clock back a few years, the basic story is you're better off being a younger country. voice-verified

So the Chinese population is going to shrink by hundreds of millions. voice-verified

And generally, as you get older, and this is the problem we've got in Britain, you get less innovative, people take less risk, more and more people obviously taking from the state. voice-verified

But in a world where technology is changing very fast... voice-verified

And when AI is coming in, robotics is coming in, there is a question about the traditional employment path for young people, particularly in poorer countries. voice-verified

So in Nigeria, for example, people thought that the route to middle-income status was software engineering, coding, call centers, which are the first things which AIs hit. voice-verified

And China's got this very interesting problem, which people don't talk about enough, which is they've got a serious youth unemployment problem. voice-verified

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