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The best political podcasts to listen to from The Rest is Politics to The News Agents

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Evening Standard

Politics on the Edge by Rory Stewart audiobook review – what’s wrong with Westminster

The former Tory MP’s fascinating insider account of the Cameron-May-Johnson premierships offers a scathing portrait of our political system

The Guardian - UK

‘We’re not trying to rival the Prodigy’: how podcasters took over music festivals

Famous for unhinged debauchery, this weekend Reading and Leeds festivals will see the debut of the Aux, a stage dedicated solely to podcasts. So is chatting the new rock’n’roll?

The Guardian - UK

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Political podcasting is the hottest career right now

These are the newly minted political podcasts and presenters in the U.K.

Fortune

‘Sails on the ship’ and ‘ashes of disaster’ – quotes of election night

From Jacob Rees-Mogg quoting Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to Neil Kinnock’s description of George Galloway, the TV coverage offered some notable moments

The Guardian - UK

Ex-Tory MP Rory Stewart: ‘I guess my hand will float over Labour, but will probably come down on Lib Dems or the Greens’

The former cabinet minister on why politics made him deeply unhappy, the truth about Old Etonians, and who he’ll be voting for

The Guardian - UK

The week in audio: Nick Ferrari; The News Agents; The Rest Is Politics; Oh God, What Now?; Electoral Dysfunction; The Turnout With GK Barry – review

With days to go to the UK’s general election, our critic listens to Starmer and Sunak face LBC’s listeners and dips into the big-name political podcasts

The Guardian - UK

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The week in TV: On Thin Ice: Putin v Greenpeace; Presumed Innocent; The Rest Is Politics; Inside No 9 – review

Docuseries meets eco-thriller as climate activists clash with Russia’s despot; Jake Gyllenhaal stars in an oddly flat legal drama rehash; Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart give us podcast TV; and the final episode of Inside No 9

The Guardian - UK

How to understand the 2024 general election? These books will help

Nigel Farage is back, the Tories are in freefall and everyone’s shouting about tax. If you want to read up on the choices facing voters on 4 July – and better understand how we got here in the first place – Jessie Thompson has your ultimate general election reading guide

The Independent UK

It’s the Sunak syndrome: you’re richer than the king but only ‘pass’ at being posh. That’s the class system for you

Like the characters in Ripley and Saltburn, the perfectly well-to-do PM longs to be even better-to-do, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Guardian - UK

Rory Stewart is right about Britain’s broken politics

Letters: In response to the ex-Tory MP’s article, John Robinson hopes future Labour ministers have time to do their jobs properly and Peter J Atkins points out the darker side of Stewart’s beloved Cumbrian dry-stone walls. Plus letters by Ian Smith and Diana Morgan

The Guardian - UK

Rory Stewart warns Tories not to ‘chase Farage’ and accuses party of giving up on youth vote

The former One Nation Tory said the party has not recovered since the ‘chaos’ of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss

The Independent UK

I’d like to say Johnson and Brexit made me quit politics. But they were symptoms of the problem, not the cause

I still feel guilty about standing down, but could no longer put up with a chaotic system that made me feel like a fraud, says the former MP and minister Rory Stewart

The Guardian - UK

Rory Stewart felt like a ‘fraud’ as a Tory MP

Former Conservative minister Rory Stewart told Hay Festival he struggled without having time to see his family or go to Pret a Manger

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The Guardian - UK

Being a politician was ‘very yucky’, ex-MP Rory Stewart tells Hay audience

Former Tory minister admits at festival that he felt a fraud due to need to give the impression he was in three places at once

The Independent UK

11 brilliant writers on the books that made them who they are today

Anne Enright, Rory Stewart, Adam Kay and more authors from the Hay Festival lineup tell Ellie Harrison about the books that they’ve loved and felt inspired by

The Guardian - UK

Emily Maitlis and The Rest Is Politics to host Channel 4 election night coverage

The News Agents’ Maitlis to present its general election results coverage alongside Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart

Evening Standard

Have we reached peak political podcast?

We are, barring a huge upset, about to enter an era of boring government. Good news… unless you’re one of the never-ending procession of people commentating on it. Juliana Close wonders which ones will survive

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Woman & Home

King Charles once rescued a staff member by ordering axe-wielding servants to break down a locked door - all while wearing his dressing gown

A former employee of the King's revealed a bizarrely heroic story that saw the monarch save him from sleeping on a bathroom floor all night

Evening Standard

Oxford dons plot to stop Rory Stewart becoming university chancellor

Lawyer Lady Elish Angiolini could stand to beat the former MP

Evening Standard

Rest is Politics podcast snubbed by Liz Truss

Hosts Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell were poking fun at her new book

Evening Standard

Rory Stewart leads race for top job at Oxford

The bookies gave him the highest odds for our predicted top five candidates

Evening Standard

Boris Johnson vs Theresa May? The race for Oxford Chancellor is on

The forthcoming election is the first to be held online

The Guardian - UK

Thatcher was right: Tory moderates have no power over the party’s ruthless rightwing extremists

The civilising influence of the ‘wets’ is a myth. The party’s angriest elements always end up back in the driving seat, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Guardian - UK

A centenarian’s plea: recall Rory Stewart to save Britain from itself

Letters: Prof John A Davis thinks the only public figure who comes out of the past quarter-century with any credit should be called back from retirement

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