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That’s True Too
In Pursuit of Pluralism
Caroline
Lucas
Politics With a Difference
Rory Stewart was almost completely invisible behind hundreds of copies of his latest book, piled high on the table in front of him, when I walked into the green room at Friends House in Euston, central London, recently.
Stewart was signing them at a feverish pace as they were due to be given out to punters as they arrived at any moment.
Later, as we discussed the book on stage, he was more relaxed as he explained how Middleland: Dispatches from the Borders was woven together from weekly articles that he wrote for the Cumberland and Westmorland Herald while he was the local MP for Penrith and the Border (between 2010 and 2019) – articles that often took six or seven hours to complete in a process that, frankly, sounds both painful and precarious.
“Often, I got into the bath for the last two hours, propping my laptop on an adjoining chair, trusting the combination of cooling water and terror at dropping the computer to keep me awake through the editing process,” he said.
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