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Why you should listen. Once a British politician, infantry officer and diplomat, Rory Stewart is a Yale professor, senior advisor to GiveDirectly and cohost of one of the UK’s most popular podcasts, The Rest Is Politics. Following a two-year walk through the Middle East and South Asia, he founded the Turquoise Mountain Foundation, a nonprofit ...
Sep 19, 2023 · Rory Stewart has written for the New York Times Magazine, Granta, and the London Review of Books, and is the author of The Places in Between. A former fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, he was awarded the Order of the British Empire by the British government for services in Iraq.
Jul 12, 2022 · Rory Stewart: It is a huge relief. Boris Johnson was doing the most extraordinary damage to our government and our unwritten constitution. He is a frightening example of what a ruthless person with no respect for the unwritten rules of our system can achieve.
About Rory. Rory Stewart is a writer. He was an independant candidate for the Mayor of London and Member of Parliament for Penrith and The Border – the largest geographical constituency in England – between 2010 and 2019. In May 2019 he was appointed Secretary of State for International Development, having previously been the Minister of ...
Jul 19, 2022 · The great Roman orator Cicero would have been “horrified” by Boris Johnson, according to Rory Stewart. For all that the outgoing Prime Minister likes to boast of his classical education, “he is all about the thing that the Romans really hated, which they called levitas – levity. He trivialises everything, he turns everything into a joke
About Rory Stewart. Rory Stewart was a member of the British Parliament for almost a decade. During that time he served as secretary of state for international development, prisons minister, minister for Africa, development minister for the Middle East and Asia, and minister… More about Rory Stewart
Rory Stewart has written for the New York Times Magazine, Granta, and the London Review of Books, and is the author of The Places in Between. A former fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, he was awarded the Order of the British Empire by the British government for services in Iraq.
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