Rory Stewart

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24,987 appearances 93 recordings 4 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 2d ago

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 — 93 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 16.

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

It seems from the outside an extraordinary story because it's very voice-verified

Medieval, oddly. voice-verified

I mean, we talk a lot about just-in-time supply chains and we worry a lot about semiconductor manufactures in Taiwan or exactly how the Japanese process a particular oil petroleum product. voice-verified

But this literally is the big waterway that connects uh the Low Countries into Germany, and its water levels getting too low that they can't move barges up and down. voice-verified

And it turns voice-verified

It turns out that barges are far more important to the German economy than everyone really thought about. voice-verified

And while we were worrying about all this kind of resilience and supply chains in the Strait of Hormuz, something that would have been kind of recognizable to a medieval king, which is that the water levels are too low on the Rhine to get your barges up and down, is proving really catastrophic overdue. voice-verified

It's got so low. voice-verified

I'm hoping to be in in Switzerland more from January and I I'll try to show some images because around our flat voice-verified

The what's happened to the glaciers is staggering. voice-verified

I mean I'll try to show you some pictures over the last twenty, thirty years. voice-verified

It's really bizarre. voice-verified

I mean people if you see it and and you live it, you're you're looking hundreds of feet of glacier have disappeared and have left this horrible kind of mess of rocks and rubble where there used to be ice coming all the way down. voice-verified

And I y we often voice-verified

focus on on Greenland or we look at look at images up in the Arctic. voice-verified

But this Swiss story is is terrifying. voice-verified

Which again is not what we need, because European GDP is already really struggling because of productivity and ageing. voice-verified

It's struggling because of competition with China, which has wiped out we didn't talk about this enough, but you mentioned it. voice-verified

Hundreds of thousands of jobs have been lost in Volkswagen. voice-verified

Real problems on energy prices, add to that the fact that the Strait of Hormuz is putting a direct squeeze on European economy. voice-verified

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