"I talked to a Yale colleague called Amit Khandelwal yesterday, who has done really detailed research on ... what happened last time Trump brought in tariffs. And before he did this research, economists believed that if you put up tariffs, a lot of the cost would be borne by the producers."

#RoryStewart, 2025

https://alastaircampbell.org/2025/04/395-trump-xi-and-how-china-outsmarted-america/

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I certainly thought that was a possibility, and said so here a few times.

"... the Mafia was not just a criminal endeavour committed by street thugs, or ordinary criminals. It was a state within the state, that could only thrive because of a commonality and intersectionality of interests between the power, the politics, and the financial-economic system. [Falcone and Borsellino] had exposed this, and they had been isolated, silenced, smeared. Eventually they were killed"

#FrancescaAlbanese, 2025

https://open.spotify.com/episode/496nxPfkTAL5oe4mExddVC

I am at Theatre Royal Drury Lane to see The Rest is Assassinations. They are playing the FULL version of W. G. Snuffy Walden's #WestWing theme as people arrive and as the curtain raises. I am in my element. #TheRestIsHistory #TheRestIsPolitics #TheRestIsPoliticsUS

Trumps ’Bomb Yemen’ group chat
The rest is politics #Therestispolitics

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0sBPHu4g2GHYLWC6y2JUTI?si=d6VmVKxiRpax3xxR5lwH1A&context=spotify%3Acollection%3Apodcasts%3Aepisodes

Rory Stewart on #TheRestIsPolitics:

"Quit playing Trump's game. Stop it. #Trump could not have been clearer, for more than a decade, that he believes Putin's line on #Ukraine. We are humiliating ourselves again and again, bending over backwards, begging, giving him exactly what he wants, which is that he just feels he can demand anything at the moment from people. We're abandoning #Canada and not stepping up for what should be one of our closest allies in the world."

https://www.youtube.com/live/7GQZqPo_Ke4?si=Czoimo4EEYR8FoL2&t=2395

Former #Conservative MP Rory Stewart:

"We should ban X/Twitter completely in the United Kingdom and in #Europe. It is clearly now a mechanism being used to undermine our democratically elected governments and support far-right parties."

I look forward to the day Alistair Campbell and Rory Stewart join #Mastodon

#X #TheRestIsPolitics #podcasts #UK #EU #US

https://youtu.be/N_IoR_lfEik?si=Oh_Uv6ITHCt7nUZc

"... We've come now into a period when I think the great trends are the rise of distrust, the rise of inequality and the rise of [digital] tech, and somehow, all of us have got to work out ... am I gaining or losing trust for what we're doing? Am I really dealing with the causes of inequality, and not adding to them? And am I using the tech, or am I being used by it?"

#TomFletcher, 2025

https://therestispolitics.supportingcast.fm/listen/leading/117-is-the-un-fit-for-purpose-tom-fletcher

Rory and Alistair once again banging on about growth. Maybe they're just showing their age, old dog, new tricks, and all that. Because from what they're saying, it seems like UK Labour have moved on, to talking about stuff like raising living standards, which is what most people really care about.

https://therestispolitics.supportingcast.fm/listen/the-rest-is-politics/357-political-new-year-s-resolutions-elon-musk-and-what-happens-next-in-taiwan

When Alistair Campbell and Rory Stewart interviewed Kate Raworth just over a year ago, they seemed to accept that the growth dogma was leading us down a blind ally;

https://alastaircampbell.org/2023/06/22-kate-raworth-doughnut-economics-and-thriving-in-balance/

A year later, they're right back to singing the 'growth is good' song, in their discussion of UK Labour's attempts not to look like the centrist lame duck it is;

https://alastaircampbell.org/2024/12/346-the-battle-for-syria/

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#podcasts #Leading #TheRestIsPolitics
#growth #DeGrowth #KateRaworth #AlistairCampbell #RoryStewart

"Is Israel still in the situation where it can honestly say that it's judicial process is so strong that it will fairly investigate war crimes committed by its own people? Or are the critics correct who say ... if you look at Israeli judicial practice over 20 years, it's been very reluctant to hold anyone accountable for war crimes"

RoryStuart, Nov 27, 2024

https://alastaircampbell.org/2024/11/343-what-happens-next-israel-vs-the-international-criminal-court/

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Highly recommend this live discussion by multiple "The Rest Of" podcast speakers:

Alistair Campbell

Rory Stewart

Anthony Scaramucci

Marina Hyde

Dominic Sandbrook

#US #USelection #USpol #TRIP #TheRestIsPolitics
#TheRestIsPoliticsUS #TheRestIsHistory #TheRestIsEntertainment #USA #UK #democracy

https://www.youtube.com/live/sAmC9FDX4aE

"... it felt a little bit to me like a cross between a political program and a bit of a game show. The "raise your hands" and all that stuff. I just wanted something a bit more serious I think."

#AlastairCampbell, June 2024, on the Sunak vs Starmer debate

https://alastaircampbell.org/2024/06/261-sunak-vs-starmer-who-won/

"How do you generate growth? A big growth plan that signals to people the economy is going to be done in a different way" - Alistair Campbell on the policies of the next (Labour?) government

The awkward interview with Kate Raworth from mid-June forgotten?

#TheRestIsPolitics #DoughnutEconomics #KateRaworth
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Zf67yFhMOPhR8DNpJIlth?t=787