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

Which was true in Nepal. voice-verified

Remember in Nepal, they were using a lot of memes. voice-verified

So I do think this question of how social media, which is used by the populace to oppress, humor then comes back. voice-verified

Well, look, we should encourage people to listen. voice-verified

It's an amazing lesson, and it's a very, very different scale of government and a very different scale of democracy. voice-verified

Now, I had a question, though, to move us on from somebody called Hardin. voice-verified

And I wonder whether Hardin comes from this place that you're talking about. voice-verified

Or maybe I've mispronounced him. voice-verified

Maybe he's called Hayden. voice-verified

How does the new US-Saudi agreement on domestic uranium enrichment affect regional nuclear stability? voice-verified

And will Iran and the UAE now demand equivalent capabilities to avoid falling behind their neighbors? voice-verified

So very, very interestingly, Saudi Arabia has been pushing for decades now to build a big nuclear generation facilities. voice-verified

It's a very strange thing in some ways from the outside to be doing because they've got a lot of oil and gas, and they've also now got an enormous amount of cheap solar. voice-verified

Fantastic air quality, great sunlight, one of the best places to generate solar energy. voice-verified

So the question is, why do they need these big nuclear facilities, which are actually more expensive than generating with the gas and the solar that they actually have? voice-verified

Well, the key is the detail in this negotiation where voice-verified

unlike UAE, which has said it'll take American technology but not enrich, the Saudis are rather oddly demanding that they can enrich their own uranium. voice-verified

This again is very strange because you can buy enriched uranium on the international markets from Central Asia and elsewhere surprisingly cheaply, right? voice-verified

It's not an economic move. voice-verified

Should we get our own? voice-verified

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