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Local Democracy". Register of All-Party Groups. House of Commons. 30 March 2015. Archived from the original on 8 March 2017 . Retrieved 11 September 2017. King, Ceri (3 May 2019). "Business transacted at the Privy Council held by the Queen at Windsor Castle" (PDF). Privy Council of the United Kingdom. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 April 2021 . Retrieved 12 April 2021. This day Rory Stewart OBE was, by Her Majesty's command, sworn of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council and took his place at the Board accordingly. Love and betrayal in early 20th-century Malaysia from the Booker-shortlisted author, inspired by Somerset Maugham’s visit to Penang. A galvanising vision for society that uses the revolutionary ideas of American thinker John Rawls as its starting point.

He was a columnist for The New York Times, [48] and also for his local constituency newspaper, the Cumberland and Westmorland Herald, contributing a monthly column. [49] Television [ edit ] Reducing flood risk from source to sea" (PDF). UK Government. 2016. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 June 2017 . Retrieved 5 March 2018. Scottish independence: 'cairn to celebrate union love' ". BBC News Online. 9 July 2014. Archived from the original on 13 July 2014 . Retrieved 2 August 2014.The debut novel from a prizewinning essayist considers motherhood, babyhood, caregiving, reading and the creativity of everyday life. Royal Society of Literature» Two-way traffic: Rory Stewart on writing about place". rsliterature.org. Archived from the original on 5 March 2018 . Retrieved 8 March 2018. From the author of Fates and Furies and Matrix, a 17th-century “female Robinson Crusoe” in which a young English servant flees from a starving colonial encampment into the American wilderness. Full results of the Conservative leadership election – round 1". The Guardian. 13 June 2019. Archived from the original on 7 June 2020 . Retrieved 13 June 2019.

According to the Daily Telegraph, Brad Pitt bought the rights to make a film about Stewart in 2008, with Orlando Bloom tipped to play the leading role. [34] Rory Stewart given new role in cabinet reshuffle". News and Star. 9 January 2018. Archived from the original on 22 July 2018 . Retrieved 16 April 2020.All of which makes for a superbly readable book. After his unexpected 2015 election victory, Cameron made Stewart a junior environment minister, serving under Liz Truss. Truss prized “exaggerated simplicity” above “critical thinking”, “power and manipulation” over “truth and reason”. Stewart observes that this “new politics” offered “untethered hope” and “vagueness” instead of accuracy. Truss was allergic to “caution and detail”, he adds. Stewart felt that he could not serve under his fellow Old Etonian Boris Johnson, who was elected Prime Minister after the resignation of Theresa May, and so resigned from cabinet on 24 July 2019. [11] [150] Conservative Party leadership election [ edit ]

Set in an alternative America, an ambitious, genre-busting investigation of creativity told through the life of an iconoclastic artist, as written by her grieving widow. A collection of essays from the 1970s by one of the most influential feminists of the 20th century, gathered together here for the first time. Upon joining the House of Commons, Stewart was elected a member of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, serving until 2014. During his tenure on the committee, he was also chair of the trans-Atlantic group Le Cercle but did not declare his membership. [86] Stewart also served as the chair of the APPG for Mountain Rescue [87] [88] and the APPG for Local Democracy, [89] [90] and was an officer of the APPG for Rural Services. [91] He was elected chair of the Defence Select Committee in May 2014. He left these positions upon his appointment as environment minister.a b "Tory MP 'sorry' for twine remark". BBC News Online. 25 July 2010. Archived from the original on 27 July 2010 . Retrieved 26 July 2010.

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With both capitalism and democracy under increasing stress across the world, journalist Martin Wolf makes the case that the marriage of these two systems is still the best way of organising society. The former poet laureate guides us through his life in poetry, from encounters with Larkin and Auden to the act of composition itself. The broadcaster on how Britons’ relationships with dogs has influenced the country’s history and culture. Two families’ destinies are intertwined, in a portrait of inequality in contemporary Nigeria from the author of the Women’s prize-shortlisted Stay With Me. In January 2010, Stewart presented the BBC Two documentary miniseries The Legacy of Lawrence of Arabia. [50]