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"It's so refreshing to be able to talk honestly about these things now that everybody [here has] left politics ..."
#RoryStewart, 2025
Well, isn't that a revealing statement?
Yes, I did unsub from The Rest is Politics in protests at their shameless shilling for HP. But I stumbled on this 2-part interview with former SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, which intrigues my Scottish diaspora roots, and it's well worth a listen.
Given a choice between Nigel Farright and Jeremy Corbyn as hypothetical UK PM, Alistair Campbell and Rory Stewart both pick Corbyn;
https://alastaircampbell.org/2025/08/437-question-time-farage-vs-corbyn-the-uks-next-prime-minister/
Of course they do. One option is a lying, snivelling, intellectually bankrupt, corporatist, appeaser of actual fascists. The other is a Fabian socialist Parliamentarian. It's not a hard choice.
For all their faults, neither Campbell nor Stewart have sympathy for fascism of any kind.
(1/3)
Very disappointing to learn that The Rest is Politics has accepted sponsorship from Goggle, and to hear the hosts spruiking Trained MOLEs on their behalf;
https://alastaircampbell.org/2024/12/347-question-time-bidens-pardon-is-unforgivable/
I really thought Stuart and Campbell were more principled than that. Or maybe they've drunk the kool-aid, in which case I thought they were a lot more canny than that.
"... I increasingly see [politics] in terms of social justice, inequality, not really addressing poverty in our country, not really addressing the homeless ... I would have loved to see a Labour government come in that [centres] those things ... and one if the reasons I'm underwhelmed, to be honest, is that it does feel a bit austerity-lite, and not a million miles from where Cameron's conservatives were."
#RoryStewart, 2025
https://alastaircampbell.org/2025/05/question-time-has-the-us-underestimated-china/
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