Rory Stewart
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559. Who Really Benefits from the Ceuta Migration Crisis?
Why did 50,000 people risk their lives in an attempt to cross the Morocco-Spain border? What do the pictures emerging from the enclave of Ceuta reveal about the bigger migration story?
Data Centres vs. Drinking Water: What Matters To Us Most?
To hear the full episode, which includes an interview with global water expert, Sandra Postel, sign up at the therestispolitics.com With the government quietly categorising data centres as ‘critical…
558. The 'Cockroach' Uprising and Should We Stop Data Centres?
Is Modi's power finally cracking as the Cockroach Janta Party's mass protests force a minister to resign for the first time in over a decade?
557. Can Burnham Deliver Britain's Biggest Change in Generations?
Can Andy Burnham, in a single term or less, fix problems like social care that are generations in the making?
Britain's Ticking Time Bomb: The Food Security Crisis
Could the UK be facing empty supermarket shelves by 2030? Are food distribution centres sitting ducks for drone warfare?
556. The US-China AI Arms Race and Badenoch vs. Rory’s Centrism
Is China quietly outsmarting the US in the AI arms race, and is Trump laying the pitch to challenge the results of the US midterms with his repeated, unfounded claims of Chinese election meddling?
555. Burnham’s Cabinet Purge and the Rough Sleeping Pledge
What does Andy Burnham’s purge of Starmer loyalists from the top of government tell us about how the new British prime minister will govern the UK?
The Secret Security Threat The Government Don’t Want Us To Know
Why did the government suppress a report written by senior intelligence officials which named climate and nature collapse as a national security threat?
554. Burnham’s Worldview, Trump's Ceasefire Collapse, and Advising Count Binface
Can Andy Burnham's 'Makerfield test' survive contact with a world of Trump, China, and a raging Iran crisis?
553. Farage in Meltdown and The Killing of Ann Widdecombe
Has Nigel Farage finally hit his tipping point, and could Count Binface deliver the ultimate humiliation in Clacton?