I had been walking one afternoon in Scotland and thought: Why don't I just keep going? There was, I said, a magic in leaving a line of footprints stretching across Asia.

Rory Stewart

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Being a backbench MP is a bit of an anti-climax for a superhero. by Rory Stewart

Being a backbench MP is a bit of an anti-climax for a superhero.

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The politicians think the journalists have power, the journalists think bankers have power, bankers think lawyers have power. The truth is, nobody has power.

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I found that Scottishness and Englishness are actually strong, instinctive things, whatever the historical reasons. Even the accent changes - just two inches across the border.

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I have a constituency with 52,000 people and a million sheep. I was in one village where a local kid was run over by a tractor. They took him to Carlisle, but they couldn't be bothered to wait at the hospital. So they put him in a darkened room for two weeks, then said he was fine. But I'm not so sure he was.

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It was a bit of a surprise when I became a Tory MP. My friends sa... by Rory Stewart

It was a bit of a surprise when I became a Tory MP. My friends said it was a stupid idea.

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I think one of the odd things about public life, coming from the outside, is that people seem to be paranoid. Maybe they were quite frank initially, but then they did one thing which went wrong.

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