Marc Stears

Marc Stears is the author of Demanding Democracy (Princeton, 2010), Progressives, Pluralists, and the Problems of the State (Oxford University Press, 2006) and Out of the Ordinary: How Everyday Life Inspired a Nation and How It Can Again (Harvard University Press, 2021), which makes a passionate case that both the left and right have lost their faith in ordinary people and must learn to find it again. He was a senior advisor and chief speechwriter to Ed Miliband, the former leader of the British Labour Party, and now directs the UCL Policy Lab at University College London.

His latest book, England (Bloomsbury, 2024) is co-written with Tom Baldwin and takes us on a journey through seven myths that distort our ideas of England and where the country is heading. It was published on April 25th.