Hello, welcome to another episode of The Restless Polities with me, Alistair Campbell, and

me, Rory Stewart.

Now, Rory, you've been very, very busy promoting your book, but meanwhile, you may know that

some of these things have been happening.

Schools crumbling, we'll talk about that, we'll talk about one of the most bizarre, thick

of it moments involving the woman that you not long ago said ought to be Prime Minister,

Julian Keegan.

We shall talk about the old political merry-go-round, we've had a small change in the cabinet

with Grant Shaps getting his fifth job in the year, and Keir Starmer has reshuffled his

team as well in quite an interesting way.

I also do think, Rory, we get some criticism for relentlessly plugging our books, but I

do think, actually, it's worth not least in the context of what's happening at the moment,

talking about some of the themes in your book, which is out this week and is doing very,

very well in the charts, I see.

But actually, I, in a very Tory kind of way, I reread it over the weekend, having read

it proofs a few months ago, and I do think, actually, there are some themes in there that

are very, very relevant to what's going on to some of the things that we talk about

a lot.

And I think also we need to touch on Gabon yet another coup, very different to some of

the previous coups, but definitely not getting nearly enough attention in the UK media.

So you happy with that?

Very good.

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