On issues from Trump to Syria, Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart’s wildly popular podcast The Rest is Politics is actively making its millions of listeners less informed, says James Price

“I wasn’t fundamentally wrong because I was patronising to people. I was wrong because I’m an optimist and I hate the idea of being wrong pessimistically. You can align yourself with the worst instincts of humanity… or you can hope. My bet on Harris was a bet on the American people. It was a bet on hope.”

So goes the sum total of self-reflection from Rory Stewart, former cabinet minister, Prime Ministerial hopeful and co-host of The Rest Is Politics podcast.

It followed the wildly successful podcast (co-presented by former Blair Spin Doctor and dossier sexer-upper Alastair Campbell) making bold, confident predictions that former Vice President Kamala Harris would win the US Presidential election comfortably.

The rest, as we know, is history; Donald Trump won the popular vote, every swing state and both houses of Congress. Listening to this show in the run-up to 5 November last year,........

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