Rory Stewart

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24,884 appearances 92 recordings 4 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard yesterday

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

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The Rest Is Politics · 562. The Right’s War With Itself and Burnham’s Prisons Challenge · 12 Aug 2026 podcast

And these prisons, particularly a lot of the locals, are frequently in horrendous conditions. voice-verified

If you read the inspection reports, they are filthy, the windows are broken, which is the the key to the drones thing that we were talking about in the in the last episode. voice-verified

I mean, the truth of the matter is there is absolutely no reason for there to be any problem with drones in prisons. voice-verified

I mean, there's a mad world in which everyone gets excited by drones. voice-verified

And you know, are we gonna laser drones? voice-verified

Liz Truss had dogs barking at drones. voice-verified

But the truth of the matter is the prison is a guarded compound. voice-verified

There's only two ways of getting stuff in it. voice-verified

Either it goes in through the gate or it goes over the wall. voice-verified

And the way in which most people were getting things off drones is sticking their hands out the window. voice-verified

Well, you shouldn't be able to stick your hands out of a window in a prison. voice-verified

These windows don't open, right? voice-verified

And the only reason you stick your hands out the window is you've broken the window. voice-verified

In other words, you've broken the window, nobody's inspected your window, and nobody's fixed the window, and nobody's punished you for breaking the window. voice-verified

So that goes back to one of the fundamentals when we're talking about prison places and drones and all this kind of thing. voice-verified

There's a real problem with the way in which we've actually built the culture and the systems and the prison service. voice-verified

Being a prison officer is really tough, right? voice-verified

It's like some combination of a police officer, a social worker, a teacher, a security guard, all rolled into one. voice-verified

These should be well paid, well trained jobs with a proper training college, proper morale, proper monitoring, so that you actually know your prisoners. voice-verified

You're keeping these things clean, tidy, well inspected. voice-verified

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