I become very anxious if I think I’ve hurt someone.
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Rory Stewart
b. 1973
Politics and public life
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Born in Hong Kong, Rory Stewart, 53, served as Conservative MP for Penrith and The Border from 2010. He was secretary of state for international development when he launched an unsuccessful bid to become Tory leader in 2019. Later that year, he resigned from the party to stand as an independent in the London mayoral elections. He co-hosts the podcast The Rest Is Politics and is the author of prize-winning and bestselling books including The Places in Between and Politics on the Edge. His latest is Middleland. He is married with two children and lives in London.
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Being too thin-skinned.
Carelessness of truth and others.
Having somebody pull my judo trousers down at a competition when I was seven. And finding I wasn’t wearing any pants.
A painting of a man who was killed on the Dutch coast in 1600.
Scrappy, quixotic, curious.
On X, I am regularly called a traitor, a fraud, a grifter, a weakling, a narcissist, a coward and a child molester.
Surprise. Smiles. Courage. Safety.
Moments of vanity, carelessness and unkindness.
The US election showed me that I had trapped myself in wishful thinking.
Living in a ski resort.
That I am not wise.
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