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

Because he's trying to say that they're all funded by foreign governments. voice-verified

They've got big posters saying, nobody funds me, I hate this government for free. voice-verified

And Modi has really thrown off balance by the fact that a new class has come out, there are new coalitions emerging. voice-verified

Now, it's not something that Congress is really able to exploit. voice-verified

I think Congress is looking very, very normally sort of leaden-footed. voice-verified

But I do think it's a real trouble for Modi. voice-verified

I wonder whether there isn't also something interesting about how you challenge populism, which might be a lesson that maybe it's there in Hungary. voice-verified

And might be a lesson for exporting. voice-verified

One of the things they've done is they've stopped using these very apparently kind of elitist methods. voice-verified

these kind of Urdu poems, and they're actually chanting often the BJP's own chants back at them. voice-verified

So they're chanting, you know, Jai Bhim or Bharat Mata Ki Jai, which is praise to Mother India or victory to Mother India. voice-verified

Vande Mataram, I bow to thee, Mother. voice-verified

These are very, very evocative Hindu nationalist chants now being chanted back voice-verified

at the BJP who they're opposing. voice-verified

So that then makes it a little bit more difficult, I think, for them to be portrayed as out of touch elitists. voice-verified

And of course, they're also doing things that we don't understand. voice-verified

So when they're running away from the police and being beaten, the little post will say, I'm keeping my Strava streak alive, which is a reference to a kind of running program, or they will voice-verified

They're also using Subway Surfers, which is a video game, I think, about runners. voice-verified

Somebody, a younger listener can correct me here. voice-verified

So you're being beaten by the police, you're running away, but you're basically playing out some sort of version of Super Mario. voice-verified

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