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

Should we buy our own? voice-verified

Let's trip. voice-verified

We should have our own enriched uranium. voice-verified

So, voice-verified

Why do the Saudis want to enrich Iran? voice-verified

Well, that connects to a much longer story going back to the 90s or 80s, in fact, where Saudi seems to have been involved in funding part of the Pakistan nuclear program, where Mohammed bin Salman said openly more than a decade ago that if Iran got nuclear weapons, Saudi was going to have to get nuclear weapons. voice-verified

So it's partly about technology, it's partly about skills, but it's partly about giving you optionality to build a nuclear weapon back over the voice-verified

Absolutely. voice-verified

And I'm afraid nuclear proliferation is going to become much, much more common because it's also true that China can provide the technology if the US won't. voice-verified

And that wasn't true so much 30, 40 years ago. voice-verified

The Chinese technology is now much better. voice-verified

It's also true that as our famous rules-based international order collapses and the American guarantees collapse, Sweden might talk about getting nuclear weapons, Germany might talk about getting nuclear weapons. voice-verified

And of course, the more nuclear weapons there are, the more risk we all face. voice-verified

This is something coming in a miniseries. voice-verified

I've just interviewed Carlo Rovelli, in which Carlo Rovelli, this brilliant scientist who people probably know best for writing about time and gravity and voice-verified

is now ringing the alarm bell on nuclear proliferation and saying, this is probably the biggest single existential threat facing humanity. voice-verified

And I kept saying to him in this voice-verified

I kept saying, you're not worried. voice-verified

You sound a bit 1960s. voice-verified

I mean, this was like everyone's digging bunkers in their backyard. voice-verified

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