Marc Stears, a former speechwriter for Ed Miliband, Labour’s leader in 2010-15, thinks he has the answer. The next big thing will be small—what he calls “the politics of the ordinary” or of “everyday life”.
Mr Stears retreated from the hurly-burly of political life to the University of Sydney in order to immerse himself in a group of pre-war writers and artists—D.H. Lawrence, George Orwell, Dylan Thomas, J.B. Priestley and Bill Brandt. The resulting book, “Out of the Ordinary”, uses their work and their times to throw light on today’s politics.
They believed that Britishness was defined by informal institutions like working-men’s clubs and women’s institutes rather than official ones, and by quiet patriotism rather than noisy flag-waving.
Politics is overrated! Politics is useless! Politics is obsolete!
mattholehouse Would like to hear more about this from mds49 because I was surprised at the last election that neither major party was talking about day to day issues like getting a GP appointment or the state of local shops.
Do you think this is what people really need right now?
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