What is next for Rory Stewart

What is next for Rory Stewart – ‘Still in his 40s, Stewart has already lived many lives: as an award-winning writer, a cabinet minister, a podcaster, an academic, a soldier and a diplomat. Now comes another ambitious challenge. “I think we have a chance of ending extreme poverty worldwide,” he says, absolutely impassioned. “I can lead a movement starting in Africa that can demonstrate in a couple of countries how it could be done.”
And after Stewart ends world poverty? “I’d like to take a camel from Morocco to Timbuktu,” he says.’

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/aug/29/rory-stewart-politics-privilege-podcast-stardom

His books ‘The Places In Between’ and ‘Occupational Hazards, highlight that on the ground the communities he visited in the near east are made up of villages and tribes who have their own culture, customs and practices, and do not want to be westernised. The idea that imposing democratic political structures and institutions will result in a renaissance through political cohesion and the adoption by these communities of western liberal values is naive, and demonstrates a complete lack of any granular understanding of these regions by grand strategists and political leaders in the West. Rory Stewart grasped this, which is why he is a huge loss to British politics.