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Rory Stewart – Politics on the Edge
20 June 2024 @ 7.30pm
About Rory Stewart – Politics on the Edge
Who gets to win power, and how do they keep it and lose it? Who is excluded from power? Does power always corrupt, or are there examples of leaders who have maintained their integrity while in authority?
Join co-presenter of the hit podcast The Rest is Politics, Rory Stewart – diplomat, explorer, cabinet minister and writer-for an evening of no-holds-barred discussion on crisis, politics and the world order.
Following several sold-out 2023 events, Rory will be taking to the stage once more. Rory will reflect on how, over a decade, he went from being a political outsider to standing in for the prime minister – before being sacked from a Conservative Party that he had come to barely recognise.
Tackling ministerial briefs on flood response and prison violence, engaging with conflict and poverty abroad as a foreign minister, and Brexit as a Cabinet minister, Stewart learned firsthand how profoundly hollow and inadequate our democracy and government had become.
On stage, Rory will engage with populism, Brexit, and global conflict and delve even deeper into the instant number 1 Sunday Times bestseller, Politics On The Edge.
With a chance to ask your own questions to the man himself, don’t miss the opportunity to hear Rory’s account of the challenges, absurdities and realities of political life.
Reviews
“This fine, perceptive book… incisive, thoughtful, far more concerned with the business of good government than with the small-time idiocies of party politics.”
John Simpson
“One of the best books on politics our era will see… a book of astonishing literary quality.”
Matthew Parris, Times Literary Supplement
Intense, funny, savage and profound. It’s the best there is on life inside the modern palaces of power.
Michael Ignatieff
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Doors open 30 minutes before the show starts.
About New Theatre Oxford
There has been a theatre on George Street for almost 170 years. The first theatre was built in 1836, and a second in 1886. In 1934, the third New Theatre opened.
The theatre has been owned by several different companies and undergone several name changes. It is now owned by the Ambassador Theatre Group and hosts everything from ballet and opera to musicals.
On performance days, the Box Office opens at noon and closes 15 minutes after the show starts. If there is a performance on a Sunday or Bank Holiday, Box Office will open 2 hours before the show begins and close 15 minutes after the show starts.
There is a large air-conditioned bar with seating located below the Stalls Foyer, two further bars in the Circle Foyer and an additional one at the back of the balcony. All stocked with an array of drinks and snacks.
There is a cloakroom located in the stalls bar. If this is closed, please speak to a member of staff. £1 per item. It is free to ATG Theatre Card members.
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