Total pleasure to interview Tom Baldwin and Marc Stears about their new book. Listen here podfollow.com/cheerfulpodcast and buy it for a fascinating, inspiring read. 👇

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Tom Baldwin and Marc Stears 's new book #ENGLAND is out today! Get your copy now.
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Reviewed in the The New Statesman 👇👇👇
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On publication day for new book with Marc Stears, we've got a great review from the brilliant director Josie Rourke.

'Beautiful and detailed…you manage to alchemically derive some hope from all those implosions of myths… breathtaking.'

You can buy it now at shorturl.at/coIN7

Alan Johnson, the former Home Sec Alan Johnson and author of 'This Boy', describes the new book I've written with Marc Stears as an 'iconoclastic masterpiece' & 'a thoroughly entertaining read'.

He especially liked the chapter on Hull!

You can buy it here.

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Thirty years ago, Blur released Park Life....the video for which was filmed in a pub car park on the Greenwich Penisula, home to the Millennium Dome.

And it's where we spoke with Marc Stears and Tom Baldwin about their new book for UCL Policy Lab magazine. ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/new…

Bonkers Home Secretary James Cleverly is out arguing the £1.8m a person cost of the Governments #RwandaScheme is justified

If you think that’s absolute boll**** RT this widely

Another excellent blog from Stewart Purvis, a former Ofcom official, on the absurd mess Ofcom have got themselves into over GB News.

MPs on social media during election time.

📚 Happy publication day! We have a gorgeous, bumper book stack for you to devour. What has taken your eye?

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England: Seven Myths That Changed a Country and How to Set Them Straight – Tom Baldwin, Marc Stears

‘This iconoclastic masterpiece is well argued and beautifully written. A thoroughly entertaining read’ Alan Johnson

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Happy publication day to ENGLAND🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Tom Baldwin and Marc Stears take on seven myths that distort our ideas of England and where the country is heading.

Out now with Bloomsbury Books UK

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Happy #PublicationDay to Tom Baldwin and Marc Stears whose new book #ENGLAND : Seven Myths That Changed a Country – and How to Set Them Straight, comes out today!
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'Challenging, forensic, compelling' - Sathnam Sanghera
'Pure centrist erotica' - Sunday Times

Alan Johnson, the former Home Sec Alan Johnson and author of 'This Boy', describes the new book I've written with Marc Stears as an 'iconoclastic masterpiece' & 'a thoroughly entertaining read'.

He especially liked the chapter on Hull!

You can buy it here.

shorturl.at/coIN7

Read it - it's a real joy. And just in time for the English summer amazon.co.uk/England-Seven-…

In telling these seven myths, they bring out the real heroes of our national story. Those that, in the words of Orwell, lay just below the surface, a seam of human energy, quietly looking to make good for one another.

On publication day for new book with Marc Stears, we've got a great review from the brilliant director Josie Rourke.

'Beautiful and detailed…you manage to alchemically derive some hope from all those implosions of myths… breathtaking.'

You can buy it now at shorturl.at/coIN7

Congratulations to Marc Stears and Tom Baldwin on their brilliant new book Seven Myths That Changed a Country – and How to Set Them Straight. They’ve managed to capture that sense of a place that has been the backdrop to so much joy and imagination.

After hours of intense Zoom interviews, library visits and walking tours round the country, England, my book with Tom Baldwin, is finally published today! Available at all good places … Thanks to Nalan Cabi for the perfect photo.