The Devolution of Alastair Campbell’s and RoryStewart’s Mental Health.

Alastair Campbell’s confessions about his own ongoing mental health instability are famous (his role in instigating the bloody Iraq war could doubtless explain some of that) but not everyone is familiar with Rory Stewart’s mental health battles and near suicide attempt after political disappointments and Boris Johnson. His reputation as a lying alleged British spy is also worth consideration.

Link to Stewart’s admission here

There is a lot of meat on these bones which a competent producer might look into, since they  they (Stewart, Campbell) did a “miniseries” (hit piece) on the Vice President and are forever mocking President Donald Trump as “crazy”. I think Rory too would make a rich subject of a miniseries exploring who, really, are the unstable ones? 

updated June 19, 2025, 7/19/26 – Stephen Hand

+ Ross Douthat interviews J.D. Vance. May 2025 (NYT).

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Isn’t it clear that Alastair and the Stewart often enough write their own questions to themselves for their Q&A time in order to make themselves look sages? There is never a moment when they are not campaigning for Rorys attempted comeback someday. It was a condition for working together at all. Each tries to rehabilitate the other. But as with Trump so with Starmer, they are always wrong. This is to say.nothing about their self-documented mental health problems, etc.