I'm not good at explaining why I walked across Afghanistan.

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• Rory Stewart:

  I had a lot of romantic notions about what it would mean to cross Asia by foot.

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  When my father was posted to Malaysia, we'd take bacon-and-egg sandwiches in our backpacks and go h

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  I want to 'normalise' myself. I would love to have a family.

• Rory Stewart:

  I have planted over 6,000 trees at home in Scotland, some of them oak. I'd like my children to be a

• Rory Stewart:

  If things are going wrong in a country, it's not usually that we don't have enough foreigners. It's

• Rory Stewart:

  In some sense, I'm a romantic. I like the idea of organic history and tradition.

• Rory Stewart:

  If we say the purpose of life is our children, that's neither a purpose nor a meaning. But I'm sure

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  Being a backbench MP is a bit of an anti-climax for a superhero.

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  The politicians think the journalists have power, the journalists think bankers have power, bankers

• Rory Stewart:

  I found that Scottishness and Englishness are actually strong, instinctive things, whatever the his