Rory Stewart is Conservative MP for Penrith and The Border
July 2024
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
Rishi Sunak hints he might not quit as Tory leader immediately if he loses election – as it happened
PM says he ‘loves this party dearly’ and would always put himself at the service of it’
June 2024
The 14 long and wasted years of Tory Britain
‘It was an awakening’: Diane Abbott, Nicola Sturgeon, Rory Stewart and more on the books that shaped their politics
Observer New Review Q&A
Ex-Tory MP Rory Stewart: ‘I guess my hand will float over Labour, but will probably come down on Lib Dems or the Greens’
Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: On Thin Ice: Putin v Greenpeace; Presumed Innocent; The Rest Is Politics; Inside No 9 – review
Rory Stewart is right about Britain’s broken politics
This month's best paperbacks
This month’s best paperbacks: Zadie Smith, Matthew Perry and more
Why I quit
I’d like to say Johnson and Brexit made me quit politics. But they were symptoms of the problem, not the cause
Rory Stewart
Being a politician was ‘very yucky’, ex-MP Rory Stewart tells Hay audience
March 2024
Gary Lineker, Theresa May and David Nicholls join the Hay festival 2024 lineup
This year’s festival promises to be a ‘civic platform’, with a new series of daily news analysis, a debate about the Israel-Gaza war and an appeal to the younger generation
February 2024
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
January 2024
Welcome to the age of the ‘dadcast’: ubiquitous, lucrative – and a bit boring
Archie Bland
Identikit podcasts featuring men of a certain age and character – think George Osborne and Alastair Campbell – are elbowing out innovation, says Archie Bland, editor of the Guardian’s First Edition newsletter
November 2023
Rory Stewart, Jeanette Winterson and Marlon James announced for Hay festival 2024
‘The echoes with Trump are obvious’: BBC series on Caesar casts light on similarities with modern populists
September 2023
Brief letters
Millwall fans are not always fair game
Boris Johnson an ‘egotistical chancer’, says Rory Stewart
‘I saw how grotesquely unqualified so many of us were’: Rory Stewart on his decade as a Tory MP
Some MPs came close to suicide, says ex-Tory minister Rory Stewart
The Guardian view on the UK falling apart: Labour must reject the orthodoxy that caused it to crumble
Book of the day
Politics on the Edge by Rory Stewart review – blistering insider portrait of a nation in decline
