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Politics On the Edge
Politics On the Edge: From the host of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics | Rory Stewart
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A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabinet minister and co-presenter of breakout hit podcast The Rest Is Politics 'An instant classic' MARINA HYDE 'At last a politician who can write' SEBASTIAN FAULKS 'Candid, angry, funny, and self-revelatory' JONATHAN DIMBLEBY 'Exceptional' RAFAEL BEHR The Times pick for *The Biggest Books of the Autumn* Over the course of a decade from 2010, Rory Stewart went from being a political outsider to standing for prime minister - before being sacked from a Conservative Party that he had come to barely recognise. Tackling ministerial briefs on flood response and prison violence, engaging with conflict and poverty abroad as a foreign minister, and Brexit as a Cabinet minister, Stewart learned first-hand how profoundly hollow our democracy and government had become. Cronyism, ignorance and sheer incompetence ran rampant. Around him, individual politicians laid the foundations for the political and economic chaos of today. Stewart emerged battered but with a profound affection for his constituency of Penrith and the Border, and a deep direct insight into the era of populism and global conflict. Uncompromising, candid and darkly humorous, Politics On the Edge is his story of the challenges, absurdities and realities of political life and a remarkable portrait of our age.
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Caroline2
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Cor, I‘m kinda addicted to memoir audios at the moment! 😂 (This is my 7th so far this year!!) But this was utterly fascinating. A real fly on the wall look into life in parliament.

vlwelser I love him. 8mo
youneverarrived I think memoir is my favourite genre for audio! 8mo
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Leniverse
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I swear, the TV show "Yes Minister" might as well have been a documentary.

julesG 🙈😂 11mo
Dilara I've often had the same thought! 11mo
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Leniverse
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I'm starting to understand why the country is in the state it is:

"The whips had apparently been told to exclude anyone with an interest in a subject for fear that they would ask awkward questions. They preferred non-specialist MPs, who spent the committees looking at their phones or catching up on correspondence. For the same reason it seemed doctors were not allowed on the health legislation committee."

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Leniverse
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Why Rory Stewart turned to politics. He watched politicians completely destroy what he and others had worked for in (and with) Afghanistan. He is not mincing his words. And we're only on page 15.

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Leniverse
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I figured this book would be mainly about the Brexit years onward, but we're starting with Iraq and Afghanistan before Rory Stewart even became a politician, and it is even more entertaining than I expected!