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Strypey<p>"... I increasingly see [politics] in terms of social justice, inequality, not really addressing poverty in our country, not really addressing the homeless ... I would have loved to see a Labour government come in that [centres] those things ... and one if the reasons I'm underwhelmed, to be honest, is that it does feel a bit austerity-lite, and not a million miles from where Cameron's conservatives were."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/RoryStewart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RoryStewart</span></a>, 2025</p><p><a href="https://alastaircampbell.org/2025/05/question-time-has-the-us-underestimated-china/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">alastaircampbell.org/2025/05/q</span><span class="invisible">uestion-time-has-the-us-underestimated-china/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/podcasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>podcasts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/GoalHanger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoalHanger</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/TheRestIsPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheRestIsPolitics</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>"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."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/RoryStewart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RoryStewart</span></a>, 2025</p><p><a href="https://alastaircampbell.org/2025/04/395-trump-xi-and-how-china-outsmarted-america/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">alastaircampbell.org/2025/04/3</span><span class="invisible">95-trump-xi-and-how-china-outsmarted-america/</span></a></p><p>(1/2)</p><p>I certainly thought that was a possibility, and said so here a few times.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/podcasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>podcasts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/GoalHanger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoalHanger</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/TheRestIsPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheRestIsPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>"... 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"</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/FrancescaAlbanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FrancescaAlbanese</span></a>, 2025</p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/496nxPfkTAL5oe4mExddVC" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.spotify.com/episode/496nx</span><span class="invisible">PfkTAL5oe4mExddVC</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/podcasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>podcasts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/TheRestIsPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheRestIsPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Leading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Leading</span></a></p>
João Costa 💚🇵🇹🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦<p>Rory Stewart on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheRestIsPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheRestIsPolitics</span></a>:</p><p>"Quit playing Trump's game. Stop it. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> could not have been clearer, for more than a decade, that he believes Putin's line on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a>. 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 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> and not stepping up for what should be one of our closest allies in the world."</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/7GQZqPo_Ke4?si=Czoimo4EEYR8FoL2&amp;t=2395" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/live/7GQZqPo_Ke4?s</span><span class="invisible">i=Czoimo4EEYR8FoL2&amp;t=2395</span></a></p><p>⤵️</p>
João Costa 💚🇵🇹🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦<p>Former <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Conservative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Conservative</span></a> MP Rory Stewart:</p><p>"We should ban X/Twitter completely in the United Kingdom and in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a>. It is clearly now a mechanism being used to undermine our democratically elected governments and support far-right parties."</p><p>I look forward to the day Alistair Campbell and Rory Stewart join <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/X" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>X</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheRestIsPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheRestIsPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/podcasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>podcasts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/N_IoR_lfEik?si=Oh_Uv6ITHCt7nUZc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/N_IoR_lfEik?si=Oh_Uv6</span><span class="invisible">ITHCt7nUZc</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>"... 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?"</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/TomFletcher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TomFletcher</span></a>, 2025</p><p><a href="https://therestispolitics.supportingcast.fm/listen/leading/117-is-the-un-fit-for-purpose-tom-fletcher" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">therestispolitics.supportingca</span><span class="invisible">st.fm/listen/leading/117-is-the-un-fit-for-purpose-tom-fletcher</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/podcasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>podcasts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/TheRestIsPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheRestIsPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Leading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Leading</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/trust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trust</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/inequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inequality</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/DigitalTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalTech</span></a></p>
Simon Hobeck<p>Recently my podcast listening has swung away from <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/TheRestIsPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheRestIsPolitics</span></a> and more to <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/TheRestIsHiatory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheRestIsHiatory</span></a>. Really enjoying the recent series on the Frankish kingdoms and the rise of Charlemagne.</p>
Strypey<p>Despite all of my criticisms above, there's a reason I bother with The Rest is Politics. As well as being fun to listen to, Both Rory Stewart and Alistair Campbell come across as principled men, who care deeply about democracy and its potential to make the world a better place.</p><p>Case in point, they both make some passionate arguments for campaign finance reform;</p><p><a href="https://therestispolitics.supportingcast.fm/listen/the-rest-is-politics/357-political-new-year-s-resolutions-elon-musk-and-what-happens-next-in-taiwan" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">therestispolitics.supportingca</span><span class="invisible">st.fm/listen/the-rest-is-politics/357-political-new-year-s-resolutions-elon-musk-and-what-happens-next-in-taiwan</span></a></p><p>(1/2)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/TheRestIsPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheRestIsPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/CampaignFinance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CampaignFinance</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>Some more shibboleths Alistair and Rory are attached to;</p><p>"The whole post-war system believes that the way that you stop wars [like WW1 and WW2] was based on 4 things; ... making sure there was open trade so economies were interlinked ... generous international assistance to rebuild economies ... this rule-based international order ... and the final thing was [US]American hegemony that put this whole thing together"</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/RoryStuart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RoryStuart</span></a>, 2025</p><p><a href="https://therestispolitics.supportingcast.fm/listen/the-rest-is-politics/357-political-new-year-s-resolutions-elon-musk-and-what-happens-next-in-taiwan" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">therestispolitics.supportingca</span><span class="invisible">st.fm/listen/the-rest-is-politics/357-political-new-year-s-resolutions-elon-musk-and-what-happens-next-in-taiwan</span></a></p><p>(1/?)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/podcasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>podcasts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/TheRestIsPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheRestIsPolitics</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>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.</p><p><a href="https://therestispolitics.supportingcast.fm/listen/the-rest-is-politics/357-political-new-year-s-resolutions-elon-musk-and-what-happens-next-in-taiwan" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">therestispolitics.supportingca</span><span class="invisible">st.fm/listen/the-rest-is-politics/357-political-new-year-s-resolutions-elon-musk-and-what-happens-next-in-taiwan</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/podcasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>podcasts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/TheRestIsPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheRestIsPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/growth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>growth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/LivingStandards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LivingStandards</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>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;</p><p><a href="https://alastaircampbell.org/2023/06/22-kate-raworth-doughnut-economics-and-thriving-in-balance/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">alastaircampbell.org/2023/06/2</span><span class="invisible">2-kate-raworth-doughnut-economics-and-thriving-in-balance/</span></a></p><p>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;</p><p><a href="https://alastaircampbell.org/2024/12/346-the-battle-for-syria/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">alastaircampbell.org/2024/12/3</span><span class="invisible">46-the-battle-for-syria/</span></a></p><p>(1/2)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/podcasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>podcasts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Leading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Leading</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/TheRestIsPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheRestIsPolitics</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/growth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>growth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/DeGrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeGrowth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/KateRaworth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KateRaworth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/AlistairCampbell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlistairCampbell</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/RoryStewart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RoryStewart</span></a></p>
João Costa 💚🇵🇹🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦<p>Highly recommend this live discussion by multiple "The Rest Of" podcast speakers:</p><p>Alistair Campbell </p><p>Rory Stewart</p><p>Anthony Scaramucci</p><p>Marina Hyde</p><p>Dominic Sandbrook</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USelection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USelection</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TRIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TRIP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheRestIsPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheRestIsPolitics</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheRestIsPoliticsUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheRestIsPoliticsUS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheRestIsHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheRestIsHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheRestIsEntertainment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheRestIsEntertainment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/sAmC9FDX4aE" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/live/sAmC9FDX4aE</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Mark Foden<p>Rory and Alastair, having enthused about a citizen-centric approach to transformation in their recent Leading interview with Audrey Tang, fail to mention her ideas when they discuss the radical reform of the NHS less than two weeks later. </p><p>They seem to agree that a flagship piece of legislation hatched in government is what’s needed. </p><p>I don’t see how that changes the game</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheRestIsPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheRestIsPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NHS</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://threads.net/@digitalminister.one/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>digitalminister.one</span></a></span><br><a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/5FigIAHpDBvvs1EZ0I9rZN" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.spotify.com/episode/5FigI</span><span class="invisible">AHpDBvvs1EZ0I9rZN</span></a></p>
Mark Foden<p>Wow! Looks like Govcamp/Gov 2.0 really took off in Taiwan</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheRestIsPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheRestIsPolitics</span></a><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@timoreilly" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>timoreilly</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://g0v.social/@au" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>au</span></a></span><br><a href="https://youtu.be/EcY50R3IAPA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/EcY50R3IAPA</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Nadine<p>Oh my <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Channel4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Channel4</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Therestispolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Therestispolitics</span></a> with Kwarteng and Dorries so annoying, Anne there too, you must be joking 🔥 <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/unbearable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unbearable</span></a></p>
Mark Foden<p>"In the interests of my children I'd be quite keen to shut off TikTok" - Rory Stewart</p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/6BG0pcvfdIVtoq8F4mKiWrt=940" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.spotify.com/episode/6BG0p</span><span class="invisible">cvfdIVtoq8F4mKiWrt=940</span></a></p><p>Erm.... Rory you can. See here <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/105121" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">support.apple.com/en-us/105121</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheRestIsPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheRestIsPolitics</span></a></p>
Mark Foden<p>This discussion with previous MI5 and MI6 heads is worth an hour</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheRestIsPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheRestIsPolitics</span></a><br><a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/1ZChm6queYC15Vfaoj5MQv" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.spotify.com/episode/1ZChm</span><span class="invisible">6queYC15Vfaoj5MQv</span></a></p>
Mark Foden<p>"What's gone wrong, in a nutshell, is the rise of populism ... that's our No 1 defining issue [and] social media plays a big part" - Sajid Javid</p><p>Yet he - and many others saying the same thing about social media - continue to use Twitter as though it is a political given. </p><p>It’s another opioid crisis. Politicians could do much to ease it by addressing their own addictions. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Populism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Populism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheRestIsPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheRestIsPolitics</span></a><br><a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/6WXyqZdGLfDVNae8nRvn2Q?t=500" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.spotify.com/episode/6WXyq</span><span class="invisible">ZdGLfDVNae8nRvn2Q?t=500</span></a></p>
Mark Foden<p>Scaramucci on Trump. Fascinating. And encouraging.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheRestIsPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheRestIsPolitics</span></a><br><a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/4MkZdVG2pZ3Pzir8wp0X7q" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.spotify.com/episode/4MkZd</span><span class="invisible">VG2pZ3Pzir8wp0X7q</span></a></p>
Mark Foden<p>"The problem with a lot of these PFIs ... is that in the end the government has to carry the can. Because we've still got to run the schools, we've got to run the hospitals, so there's no risk for these companies. They can get the contracts by underbidding, they can underperform and ... if it all goes wrong we have to take over" - Rory Stewart on outsourcing to the private sector (20 mins in)</p><p>It is (simply) not possible to contract away complexity</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheRestIsPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheRestIsPolitics</span></a> <br><a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/4MVjNjiCcKqsR5bd281SNJ" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.spotify.com/episode/4MVjN</span><span class="invisible">jiCcKqsR5bd281SNJ</span></a></p>
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