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🚨NEW EPISODE: Leading🚨 What happens when the people building AI admit they're frightened by it? This week, Rory and Matt Clifford sit down with Jack Clark of Anthropic discussing unregulated AI, cyber warfare, & how a Brighton kid ended up shaping the future of intelligence. Link in the replies👇

Are young women becoming more left-wing?

Family dinner at Rory's must feel like University Challenge...

Is Makerfield the last chance saloon for Andy Burnham?

Has Trump always been a "sleaze bag"?

Being President is just another way to make money for Trump 🤑

🚨NEW EPISODE: LEADING🚨 This week, Rory & Alastair are joined by Tina Brown - former editor-in-chief of Tatler, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker. They discuss Trump's manipulation of the media, whether the tech bros are an even bigger threat to journalism than Murdoch ever was, & more. Links below👇

You can take Rory out of DEFRA, but not DEFRA out of Rory 🌳

"You get a sense that the Labour Party is now doing what people hated about the Tory Party"

If you see Rory with a protein shake, it's over for this pod.

Ed Miliband fans, turn away now.

"We're gonna be left behind like the dinosaurs" - Angela Rayner explains why Labour's communications needs to change.

There's no easy path back to Westminster for Andy Burnham.

Do we favour politicians with character over politicians who get things done?

Need something to watch tonight? Former Deputy PM Angela Rayner joins Vicky Spratt and Alastair for a conversation on the subjects shaping Gen Z today - from the appeal of figures like Gary Stevenson, to the housing crisis, and the disconnect between Gen Z and politics. Watch the full episode now.

If Starmer doesn't go now, then when?

The question on everyone's mind...

Is @zackpolanski.bsky.social chronically online?

Yanis Varoufakis on how giants like Amazon have changed the marketplace.

Fair to say, Anas Sarwar won't be picking up the phone to Nigel Farage any time soon.

Are Gen Z the most informed generation ever - or the most financially trapped? Is a university degree still worth it, or have we pushed too many people down the wrong path? Vicky Spratt explores the big questions shaping Gen Z in this new mini-series, exclusively for TRIP+ members. Ep1 is out now.

"Trans people are seeking to go about their business, do their business, mind their business".

Does Serbian state television position itself against President Vučić? He believes so.

FIRST LOOK 👀 A tense, at-times spiky interview with Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić drops at 18:00 on The Rest Is Politics: Leading YouTube. Subscribe and turn on notifications so you don’t miss it: youtu.be/NUHJb96m5ec

Sound up for Rory's bonobo impression 🔊

"The Trump Presidency", directed by Quentin Tarantino

A deal with Vance isn't necessarily a deal with Trump.

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 After two tumultuous days in Westminster, Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell discuss whether Sir Keir Starmer's lack of judgement and curiosity about Peter Mandelson’s appointment will be a fatal blow for the Prime Minister. Link in the replies 👇

🚨NEW EPISODE: Leading🚨 On this week's episode, Rory and Alastair interview Scottish Labour leader Anas Sawar including: why he called for Keir Starmer to resign, if he would accept a coalition with Reform, and how he plans to tackle the 'politics of despair'. Link in the replies 👇

"Sometimes they're very strong but cry and sometimes they need just hugs." President Zelenskyy on how meeting the families of fallen soldiers is one of the hardest parts of his job.

🚨 NEW MINI EPISODE 🚨 As fresh details emerge that Peter Mandelson failed vetting, Alastair and Rory ask: Is the Prime Minister telling the truth about everything he knew? As Olly Robbins loses his role over the Mandelson scandal, who else's job is in jeopardy? Link in replies 👇

Something isn't adding up about Mandelson's vetting.

Hire this man, Nat Geo.

No sleep. Just tweets.

Even a wartime leader needs to answer the first call from his mother...

Is Trump a fascist, or just a narcissist?

Ouch, Dominic 😳

"The EU is in such a situation where they need some countries. UK, Ukraine, Türkiye, Norway. This is the army that will be stronger than the army of Russia"

Know thy enemy. Our interview with President Zelenskyy is out tonight, 6pm.

One of our biggest interviews yet. Tomorrow. 6pm.

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Is Trump really a fascist? This week, @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social is joined by The Rest is History's Dominic Sandbrook to reignite the US election night debate on fascism, and ask - who is winning the Iran War? Link in the replies 👇

It wouldn't be April Fool's Day without us trying to wind up Rory 😉

"I found hope in politics as a means to make this world kinder and more just and more inclusive" - Congresswoman Sarah McBride on how her experiences growing up shaped her path into politics. Full interview out now.

Why Ai Weiwei thought getting kidnapped by the state was just "black humour".

What the far-right gets wrong about migration.

Even in the House of Lords, Lord Michael Gove finds a way to continue his Machiavellian streak.

🚨NEW EPISODE: LEADING🚨 This week, Rory and Alastair are joined by artist & activist Ai Weiwei. They discuss his experience being held prisoner by the Chinese government, why Trump is the best product to come out of the US, and if censorship is getting out of hand in the West. Link in the replies👇

Invading a country? Remember M.T.C...

The manosphere extends far beyond TikTok influencers...

"We should have woken up, smelt the coffee" President Stubb on how Europe underestimated Putin's ambitions with the annexation of Crimea.

Is corruption still a problem in Spain?

"Real allies are like real friends, they tell you the truth" This week, Rory and @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social are joined by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez discussing challenging Trump, migration, and the war in Iran. Link in the replies 👇

"The majority of the population want you to fail" - President Alexander Stubb on why being Prime Minister was far a dream job.

Exciting news from Madrid 🇪🇸 Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Leading, this Monday.

HMS Dragon seems to be the entirety of our Royal Navy, and according to Alastair - it's all the Tories fault...

"You can't put the genie back in the bottle" - Rory discusses the impact the Iran War will have on the world order.

Did Iran have a plan all along?

"Trump said he wouldn't start any new wars and he'd get prices down. He's started a new war and oil prices are now averaging $3.45 a gallon"

🚨 NEW EPISODE: LEADING 🚨 This week, Rory and Alastair sit down with President of Finland, Alexander Stubb. Why hasn’t democracy been updated? What will shape the new world order? And why does President Stubb say being Prime Minister was the worst job he’s ever had? Link in the replies 👇

Trump Derangement Syndrome is real, and it looks like @gavinnewsom.bsky.social is suggesting @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social might just have a case of it.

We'll let Gove respond to this comparison...

"You could end up with an Iranian Putin at the end of this" - Rory discusses Karim Sadjadpour's theory on Iran's future.

"He's been in a position no world leader has really been in" - Rory and Alastair discuss the toll the war is taking on Ukraine's leader.

🚨 NEW EPISODE: LEADING 🚨 This week, Rory and @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social sit down with former German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to discuss Germany’s decisions in the run-up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the rise of far-right populism, & stopping the AfD from gaining power. Link in the replies 👇

Reform just keeps getting away with it, here's why.

Are politics and science incompatible? 💔 feat. Hannah Fry

It's not all glitz and glamour in Munich...

Is Prime Minister of Japan, Sanae Takaichi, more Truss than Thatcher? 🤔

There's a fundamental problem inside the Labour operation...

Who knew Rory could ski?? ⛷️

Alastair has officially run out of patience with Labour...