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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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 85 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 16.

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

A lot of people living at home, they're not even counting youth unemployment properly. voice-verified

So on the one hand, we're hearing... voice-verified

that the problem that China faces is demographic, which is they don't have enough young people. voice-verified

But on the other hand, as you point out, those young people don't have jobs. voice-verified

So there's something wrong with the story. voice-verified

I think he's in real trouble. voice-verified

I think this might be the beginnings of a sort of Bangladesh-style moment. voice-verified

I mean, remember, Sheikh Hasina looked pretty invulnerable and then was toppled. voice-verified

Do we think Modi's... voice-verified

terribly corrupt in the way that- There's an enormous amount of corruption. voice-verified

And more than that, there are brutal authoritarian tendencies which are winding people up because the TV stations are basically controlled by Modi and his cronies. voice-verified

This has been similar to the story that we found when we interviewed the president of Serbia. voice-verified

They barely covered these demonstrations. voice-verified

If you watched main Indian TV, you wouldn't get any idea of these demonstrations taking place. voice-verified

They removed 9.1 million people from a voter roll before they went into an election which they just won in West Bengal. voice-verified

And this is a government that has treated its opponents absolutely brutally, but has depended on the idea. voice-verified

that if you were a critic of Modi, and many, many, you know, imagine if you're a Muslim in India, you are being marginalized, you're really struggling to get jobs, you're really struggling to get into civil service, etc. voice-verified

But you sort of felt he's unstoppable. voice-verified

It's like any of these populists when they're at their peak, Trump, Farage, a moment where people think, wow, voice-verified

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