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Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart win political podcast of year award

The Rest Is Politics is produced by Goalhanger Podcasts, co-founded by Gary Lineker, and normally releases two episodes a week.

Evening Standard · Jan 29, 2025

Boris Johnson outsold by Rory Stewart in 2024 book charts

Sales of the former prime minister’s book slumped well below expections

The Independent UK · Jan 10, 2025

Pigeons, push-up bras and splitting the G: what's hot and what's not for 2025

Splitting the G? So 2024. What’s hot and what’s not for this year

Evening Standard · Jan 4, 2025

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Freida McFadden’s The Housemaid best-selling book of the year on Amazon UK

Rory Stewart’s memoir Politics On The Edge topped the biography category.

Evening Standard · Dec 11, 2024

Fact check: There were four working age adults per pensioner in 1961

Although the British population is ageing, the disparity between those of working age and those of retirement age has not been 20 to 1 in 110 years.

The Independent UK · Dec 6, 2024

‘It’s about political will’: is the Foreign Office failing Britons detained abroad?

Relatives and campaigners hope Labour will usher in a step-change in the handling of hostage cases

The Guardian - UK · Nov 24, 2024

Media Watch: Legacy media left red-faced by US election result

It's been a week that has left many in the mainstream media more than a bit red-faced after Donald Trump, contrary to almost every poll and…

The National (Scotland) · Nov 11, 2024

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The mainstream media ‘underestimated the impact of Gaza’ on US election result

LISTENERS of the UK’s most popular politics podcast – The Rest Is Politics – would have gone into US election day confident of a Kamala Harris…

The National (Scotland) · Nov 10, 2024

Congratulations, your serene highness: Starmer, Farage and Lammy call Trump

The PM offers warm compliments, Farage a trip to Clacton, and the president-elect tries his best to remember them both

The Guardian - UK · Nov 7, 2024

Rory Stewart is ‘heartbroken’ about Trump – and social media is not being kind

‘For the record – I was completely wrong’ admitted the former politician

The Independent UK · Nov 6, 2024

Reeves hints UK will urge Trump not to raise tariffs as economists fear his policies will cut growth – as it happened

Chancellor says UK’s trading relationship with US is ‘absolutely crucial’ and promises not to be a ‘passive actor’

The Guardian - UK · Nov 6, 2024

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

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Evening Standard · Oct 16, 2024

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 · Sep 20, 2024

‘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 · Aug 21, 2024

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Fortune · Jul 6, 2024

Political podcasting is the hottest career right now

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

The Guardian - UK · Jul 5, 2024

‘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 · Jun 23, 2024

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 · Jun 22, 2024

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

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The Guardian - UK · Jun 16, 2024

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 Independent UK · Jun 16, 2024

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 Guardian - UK · Jun 14, 2024

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 · Jun 9, 2024

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 Independent UK · Jun 5, 2024

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 Guardian - UK · Jun 3, 2024

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 Independent UK · Jun 2, 2024

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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