206. How to fix the honours system, chaos in the Red Sea, and Taiwan at a crossroads

The Rest Is Politics

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🗓️ 3 January 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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What should we make of Liz Truss's resignation honours? How does Iran use proxies to attack the US and Israel? Why was the election in the Democratic Republic of the Congo so expensive? Join Rory and Alastair as they answer all this and more on today's episode of The Rest Is Politics. TRIP Plus: Become a member of The Rest Is Politics Plus to support the podcast, receive our exclusive newsletter, enjoy ad-free listening to both TRIP and Leading, benefit from discount book prices on titles mentioned on the pod, join our Discord chatroom, and receive early access to live show tickets and Question Time episodes. Just head to therestispolitics.com to sign up, or start a free trial today on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/therestispolitics. Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @RestIsPolitics Email: restispolitics@gmail.com Producers: Dom Johnson + Nicole Maslen Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to the rest is politics, sign up to the rest is politics plus to enjoy
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0:13.0	Welcome to the Restis Politics.
0:26.1	Welcome to the Restis Politics with me Rory Stewart and me as to gamble happy new year very happy new year and we are entering this amazing year of elections.
0:33.0	So we've just had the election in Congo and coming up we've got Taiwan and Bangladesh
0:39.4	in January, we've got Pakistan and Indonesia in February, We've got Russia in March, India in May,
0:45.8	Mexico and June, Europe in June, South Africa sometime between May and August.
0:50.8	The UK, anyone's guess, maybe you can give us your views on that, and the
0:54.4	US at the end of the year. So it's going to be an astonishing year for people interested
0:59.6	in politics and democracies of some of the biggest countries in the world go to the election.
1:04.0	Yeah, well should we start with UK politics and then we should maybe in the second half look at the two that you mentioned there the Congo which has happened
1:15.6	with a very unexpected completely unpredictable massive landslide for the governing party
1:21.6	not at all ballot rigged or any of that stuff.
1:25.0	And then we'll look at Taiwan as well and also very interesting developments in the Middle East with the court ruling in Israel putting domestic politics right back into Benjamin
1:36.6	Netanyahu's inbox with his judicial reforms hitting a bit of a bit of an obstacle. So I think we should start
1:46.0	though Rory with with the fact that we've now had David Cameron's resignation
1:50.7	on us Theresa May's resignation on us, Boris Johnson's resignation on us,
1:55.0	and Liz Trusses.
1:56.0	And you've been in none of them.
1:58.0	I've been in none of them.
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