"For Members of the Labour Party, Which Used to Employ Its Author, It Should Be Essential Reading"

"Stears sees a parallel between the problems of our own dysfunctional politics and that of the interwar years. And he sees a solution in a return, precisely, to the vision of Orwell, Priestley, Thomas and their colleagues. Instead of pursuing a populist 'class war', he calls for us to come together again as communities, and build what the American political thinker Danielle Allen calls 'a connected society'."

Seamus Flaherty at Spiked reviews Marc Stears's Out of the Ordinary: How Everyday Life Inspired a Nation and How It Can Again.