{"id":1848,"date":"2010-05-23T12:30:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T12:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=1848"},"modified":"2010-05-23T12:30:29","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T12:30:29","slug":"is-there-a-writer-presenter-in-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/is-there-a-writer-presenter-in-the-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there a writer-presenter in the House?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rory Stewart<\/a>,\u00a0new British MP for Penrith and the Border,\u00a0is not the only accomplished writer to enter the House of Commons in the May 2010 elections.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Joining him is fellow Conservative, Zac Goldsmith<\/a>, an environmentalist journalist\u00a0and\u00a0now MP for Richmond Park and North Kingston,\u00a0and, for Labour, historian Tristam\u00a0Hunt<\/a>, now MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central.\u00a0 As surely befits an MP representing The Potteries, Hunt is an historian of Britain’s great industrialisation of the nineteenth century and wrote a superb life of Friedrich Engels.
\nGiven their diverse backgrounds,\u00a0it would be fascinating to hear Stewart and Hunt debate the legacies of empire on modern Britain, and how their\u00a0respective\u00a0constituencies – at opposite extremes of the rural-city divide – can both prosper.\u00a0\u00a0Personally, I believe that commercial development of the environmental and energy sector is the only way that manufacturing in the old-world will survive this century, and this is also a sector with the potential to better connect city and country (eg, through the deployment of small-scale power-generating plants).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A web-dialog or a joint TV series, anyone?
\nReferences:<\/em>
\nTristam Hunt[2009]: The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels. <\/em>(London, UK;\u00a0 Allen Lane).\u00a0 <\/em>I reviewed this book briefly here<\/a>.
\nPrevious posts on books and articles by Rory Stewart\u00a0here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rory Stewart,\u00a0new British MP for Penrith and the Border,\u00a0is not the only accomplished writer to enter the House of Commons in the May 2010 elections.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Joining him is fellow Conservative, Zac Goldsmith, an environmentalist journalist\u00a0and\u00a0now MP for Richmond Park and North Kingston,\u00a0and, for Labour, historian Tristam\u00a0Hunt, now MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central.\u00a0 As surely befits an MP […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,35,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-politics","p1","y2010","m05","d23","h12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}