Suet puddings and red pillarboxes: A review of Marc Stears’ Out of the Ordinary

Marc Stears’ Out of the Ordinary: How Everyday Life Inspired a Nation and It Can Again is an engaging sincere work political theory. In it, Stears explores how number British writers artists in 1930s, 1940s 1950s – Bill Brandt, Barbara Jones, Laurie Lee, George Orwell, JB Priestley Dylan Thomas can help us to overcome some lazy ideological conventions our time which suggest it impossible simultaneously value tradition progress, patriotism diversity, individual rights social duties, nationalism internationalism, conservativism radicalism. this review, I highlight timely elements book while also raising doubts about his treatment ‘everyday’ Blue Labour solutions ills.