Phillip Blond
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Born | Liverpool, England | 1 March 1966
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Phillip Blond (born 1 March 1966) is an English
Early life
Born in
Career
Blond was a senior lecturer in Christian theology at the Lancaster campus of St Martin's College and after the merger with Cumbria Institute of the Arts in August 2007 he worked at the Lancaster campus the University of Cumbria[5] and was a lecturer in the Department of Theology at the University of Exeter.[6]
Blond was the director of the Progressive Conservatism Project at the London-based think tank Demos, but left due to "political and philosophical differences"[7] to establish his own think tank, ResPublica.
Blond gained prominence from a cover story in Prospect magazine in the February 2009 edition with his essay on red Toryism,[8] which proposed a radical communitarian traditionalist conservatism that inveighed against both state and market monopoly.
According to Blond, these two large-scale realities, while usually spoken of as diametrically opposed, are in reality the two sides of the same coin. As he explains it, modern and postmodern individualism and statism have always been connected of the hip, at least since the advent of
In 2010, The Daily Telegraph called him "a driving force behind David Cameron's 'Big Society' agenda."[12]
Blond is a fellow of the
Writings
- Post-Secular Philosophy: Between Philosophy and Theology (editor), London: Routledge, 1998, ISBN 0-415-09778-9
- Red Tory: How Left and Right Have Broken Britain and How We Can Fix It, London: Faber, 2010, ISBN 978-0-571-25167-4[6]
- Radical Republic: How Left and Right Have Broken the System and How We Can Fix It, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2012, ISBN 978-0-393-08100-8
See also
References
- ^ "ResPublica | Independent non-partisan think tank". ResPublica.
- ^ Derbyshire, Jonathan (19 February 2009). "The NS Profile: Phillip Blond". The New Statesman. Retrieved 18 June 2010.
- ^ Harris, John (8 August 2009). "Phillip Blond: The Man Who Wrote Cameron's Mood Music". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
- ^ "Cameron backs 'Red Tory' think tank". 26 November 2009. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
- ^ "MA in Theology, St Martin's College, Lancaster (UK)". Ucsm.ac.uk. 28 September 2006. Archived from the original on 26 March 2012. Retrieved 27 April 2012.
- ^ a b c Gray, John (2 April 2010). "Red Tory, By Phillip Blond". The Independent. Archived from the original on 26 May 2022. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
- ^ Harris, John (8 August 2009). "Phillip Blond: The man who wrote Cameron's mood music". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 November 2009.
- ^ Blond, Phillip (28 February 2009). "Rise of the red Tories". Prospect. Retrieved 31 March 2010.
- ^ Blond, Phillip (10 April 2010)."Red Tory: The Future of Progressive Conservatism?". Royal Society for the Arts. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
- ^ Blond, Phillip (30 May 2008)."The true Tory progressives". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 August 2010.
- ^ Blond, Phillip (26 November 2009). "The Future of Conservatism" Archived 6 October 2010 at the Wayback Machine. ResPublica. Retrieved 24 August 2010.
- ^ Hennessy, Patrick (13 November 2010). "Minister backs plan for massive state sell off of assets". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 15 November 2010. Retrieved 11 February 2011.
External links
- Media related to Phillip Blond at Wikimedia Commons
- Interview in The Guardian, 8 August 2009
- Phillip Blond and Adrian Pabst: The roots of Islamic terrorism, International Herald Tribune, 28 July 2005
- Phillip Blond and Adrian Pabst: The problem with secularism, International Herald Tribune, 21 December 2006
- BBC Radio 4 Profile