2025-12-10
35 分钟Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet.
I'm producer Mia Sorrenti.
Today's episode is part one of our recent live event with former MP and co-host of The Rest is Politics,
Rory Stewart.
For over a decade in British politics,
Rory Stewart saw firsthand how power really works and what forces drive communities apart.
He served as a backbench MP, held several ministerial posts, and even ran for prime minister.
Before being sacked from a Conservative party, he had come to barely recognise.
Now from outside the political arena,
he shares his insights on global affairs as co-host of the UK's leading political podcast.
Stuart joined us recently at Friend's House in London to discuss the state of Britain and the world today,
and his new book, Middelland, dispatches from the borders.
In conversation with Caroline Lucas, former leader of the Green Party,
Stewart argued that to truly create a better future for all,
we must understand the tensions that exist between rural and urban,
between farming and the natural world,
between the need to preserve and the need to grow, and between local and national politics.
Let's join our host Caroline Lucas now with more.
Well,
I am delighted to see all of you here tonight for this conversation and even more delighted to be in that conversation with Rory Stewart about his new book,