The rest is politics - “The Taliban took over the country and it's much safer”

Quote from Another Talk Board (just the talk) about Stewart from user "basil seal":

"I know a couple of people who worked with Stewart at the FO, their assessment was that he was difficult to work with, prone to eccentric behaviour like breaking off in the middle of a meeting with staff to do push ups, and flying into rages where he threw chairs around his office, but, "at least he understood the brief".

Understanding your job is perhaps a low bar for a minister of state, but i guess that's just where we are now."

It was thrashed out in the digital town square and Vance was the victor making Stewart look ridiculous.

Not sure why the ratio or comments are important. The fact that a lot of people think something doesn't make them right.

Rory is an anywhere and doesnt understanding the concept of loving the deplorables in his own country over anyone in the world.

This is why we have lots of the social problems across the west we have today.

The problem isnt that rory is the smartest person in the room, its that he more than likely thinks exactly the same as everyone he finds himself in a room with.

I think Rory falls into a common trap that many do, and I'm far from immune to it. He spent a lot of time being the smart person in the room, and then starts to think he's the smart person in any room.

I'd put him in the area "Top Ten Thoughtful Tory" and it is almost damning with faint praise rather than an accolade

I thought the comment above "living embodiment of Dunning Krueger" was harsh but mostly fair.

Did you see the ratio and comments on X, Stewart got made to look like a fool.

Except in this instance, Rory was absolutely right and Vance was wrong.

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in today's Spectator, JD Vance talking about RS
I’ve said before and I’ll say it again: the problem with Rory and people like him is that he has an IQ of 110 and thinks he has an IQ of 130. This false arrogance drives so much elite failure over the last 40 years.

Ironically the whole 'I only see the women who are my property' mindset is very 'right wing' according to most. So I guess on this at least AC is right wing!

It was glorious to watch JD Vance tear Stewart the woman hater a new one, I'm very impressed by the incoming government and their commitment to women's rights.

I read Vance's book and it's genuinely excellent. Very hard to reconcile Veep Vance with the author.

Oh good god. These men are such sad little willy-wavers 🙄

I see RS has had a little spat with JD Vance, Vance has accused him of having an IQ of 110 while imagining he has an IQ of 130. Most enjoyable.

@SmudgeHughes totally agree with you, AC seems
terrified that his daughter might think he’s “uncool”.

Really? I've not caught those - all I really picked up was her pointedly not disagreeing with the Mooch when he denounced it.

@teawamutu But Kattie Kay does make annoying and ignorant references to gender identity theory, influenced, I suspect, by her children.

@HermioneWeasley I think that Alastair’s wife and daughter play a huge role in his life and thinking (which I like), but on some issues he simply hasn’t considered that they might in fact be wrong.

AC makes a big deal of 'listening to the women in his life', which basically means he's getting bien pensant luxury beliefs from his lefty partner and omnicause-espousing, unfunny comedian of a daughter.

No other women need apply. Or indeed count.

What makes you think that? It's not like he's a teenager. He's 52. Is it common for men of that age to suddenly recognise that women are human when they've spent their whole life behaving as though women are some sort of inferior sub-species?

@OldCrone we know also that they both read extensively. Why haven’t either of them bothered to read Kathleen Stock, say, or Helen Joyce. They would learn so much in just a few hours.

I’ll never forget Rory’s excitement at travelling in a light aircraft in the US with Dylan Mulvaney.

Whut? The miniscule drop of patience I had left for listening to RS has just evaporated completely.

@HiggledyPiggledy33 I heard that and was absolutely shocked. Usually I’d tweet at them and tell them what I thought but I’ve given up on that one, tbh. They are two chaps talking, often very knowledgeably, about world politics but they simply don’t get women’s issues. Or they don’t rank very high for them.

When asked about their ‘parents’ some time ago, they both launched into descriptions of their fathers and the effects they’d had on them. I don’t know about AC’s mum but Rory’s is a personality in her own right, astonishing woman.

Having said that, I think they are trying to address women’s issues slightly more, Alastair particularly. I don’t know if Fiona has been having a go, or whether the Rest Is team has been seeing too much criticism of them on women.

They are of course unrepentantly ignorant of the effect of gender identity theory on women’s rights. I’ll never forget Rory’s excitement at travelling in a light aircraft in the US with Dylan Mulvaney.

They are also struggling to understand that one of the Democrats’ problems was their enthusiastic embrace of identity politics.

Well, yeah, you'd think.
It's not computing yet for RS, I suspect one day it will.

Fucking hell.