Phillip Blond



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Full name: Phillip Blond

Area of interest: economics, politics (esp. Conservative politics), religion

Journals/Organisation: The Guardian, various

Email: [mailto:phillip.blond@respublica.org.uk phillip.blond@respublica.org.uk] Personal website:

Website: ResPublica

Blog: Guardian.co / Phillip Blond

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Networks: http://twitter.com/#!/Phillip_Blond | http://twitter.com/#!/res_publica | Facebook page



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Education: Hull University; Warwick Uiversity: Continental philosophy (MA); University of Cambridge: Peterhouse (PhD)

Career: Senior lecturer in theology and philosophy at the University of Cumbria; DEMOS: Director, Progressive Conservatism Project (2009)
 * Profile - Jonathan Derbyshire, New Statesman, 19th February 2009
 * Chris Bowlby Profiles Philip Blond, the theologian who has become an unexpected new influence on Conservative Party policy - BBC Radio 4, 5:40pm Sunday 26th April 2009
 * The red under David Cameron’s bed - Phillip Blond: The radical thinker who has bewitched the Tory high command with his ‘third way’ tells how he could make the Conservatives the party of the poor and mend broken Britain - Camilla Long, 18th October, The Sunday Times

Current position/role: Head (and founder) of ResPublica think tank


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 * Interview: Phillip Blond: The man who wrote Cameron's mood music - A year ago Phillip Blond was a little-known theology lecturer. Now, as the architect of 'Red Toryism', he is one of the Conservative leader's inner circle and has set up his own thinktank. So, what's he thinking? - John Harris, The Guardian, 8th August 2009

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Controversy/Criticism: Tom Clark: The red Tory delusion - These outrider visions suit Cameron very nicely – just don't expect him to put them into action - 23rd July 2009

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Books & Debate:

 * Post-secular philosophy: between philosophy and theology OCLC 36423489, 1998
 * The Absolute and the Arbitrary: Gianni Vatimo on Belief, Review Essay Modern Theology, Volume 18 No 2 April 2002 (5000 words)
 * Prolegomena to an Ethics of the Eye, Studies in Christian Ethics, Vol16.2 Proceedings of the 2002 Ethics and Creation Conference, spring 2003 (7,500 words)
 * The Politics of the Eye: Toward a Theological Materialism, pp 439 - 462 : Theology and the Political The New Debate OCLC 57186406 (Edt by C.Davies, S.Zizek, J. Milbank), Duke University Press, 2005
 * Eyes of Faith OCLC 255958315, 2006
 * The Beatific Vision in St Thomas Aquinas : Encounter between Eastern Orthodoxy and Radical Orthodoxy: transfiguring the World through the Word OCLC 232256706 (edited by Adrian Pabst and Christoph Schneider), 2008

Latest work: Red Tory, a book on radical conservatism

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 * Theresa May mustn’t let prospect of victory get in way of a clear ideology - The PM should embrace her ‘red Tory’ label, a mixture of social conservatism and support for the working class - 15th May 2017
 * David Cameron has lost his chance to redefine the Tories - He has abandoned the vision of one-nation conservatism that so inspired me, and retoxified his party - 4th October 2012
 * Modern conservatives make plebs of us all - We have a self-serving echelon that believes in nothing except itself - 26th September 2012
 * Why Labour is right to support military academies - Phillip Blond and Patricia Kaszynska: Military academies directed at those in the most troubled areas of our society offer a non-selective path to excellence - 10th July 2012
 * Leave the profit motive out in the cold - The Jubilee jobseekers' episode shows how 'volunteering' is seen as a euphemism - 7th June 2012
 * Electing the Lords would undermine its value - It would be the greatest extension of executive power since Charles I dissolved Parliament - 10th April 2012
 * Phillip Blond & Graham Allen: We need a magna carta for true local government - If localism is truly to flourish, petty interference from the centre must be denied any legal or financial basis - 17th February 2012
 * ‘John Lewis economy’ talk is never knowingly undersold - We must redefine the capitalist and co-operative models - 18th January 2012
 * Big Society: innovation or slogan?'' - In part two of our debate, Phillip Blond, political commentator and author of 'RedTory', believes that the Big Society is a policy whose time has come. Meanwhile, the MP Tessa Jowell argues that its architects are simply handing over their problems to the public - 9th February 2011
 * austerity drive must not derail the winning 'big society''' - The cuts should provide the opportunity for a new civic approach to the state – but the Treasury shows little sign of grasping that - 3rd October 2010
 * a Liberal legacy'' - The party's great postwar leader Jo Grimond would have approved of David Cameron's 'big society' - 22nd September 2010
 * won't help the poor by increasing benefits'' - George Osborne isn't picking on the poor, but he needs to offer them a route to prosperity - 29th August 2010
 * equality in opportunity'' - By synthesising old Tory and traditional left ideas a genuinely egalitarian society can be achieved - 28th January 2010 (with John Milbank)
 * David Cameron's 'philosopher king' explains how his party will help those betrayed by Labour - The lasting image of the Conservative Party conference in Manchester was of the two spontaneous and moving standing ovations for David Cameron during his speech - 13th October 2009
 * The new Tories will stop class becoming caste - Poor people need access to wealth, not welfare. Bring in investment vouchers, worker buy-outs and support for couples - 5th October 2009
 * The new Conservatism can create a capitalism that works for the poor - State expenditure and redistribution has done little to end dependency. We need a fresh approach that gives assets to all - 2nd July 2009
 * Without a concept of virtue our politics and our banks are doomed - In all the clamour and rage of the expenses crisis, the fundamental issue remains wholly unaddressed: that of the value system that allowed such abuses in the first place - 1st June 2009
 * Time for radical innovation - The real black hole in Labour's political economy is not cash but the absence of ideas - 24th April 2009
 * Printing money is the logical way ahead for Tories - This week the UK will begin printing money to help stave off a full-blown deflationary recession - 1st March 2009
 * Blond on Blond and his antecedents - Letter: Madeleine Bunting's article on the impact and consequence of my work combines reasoned critique with unfortunate historical inaccuracy - 11th February 2009
 * Rise of the Red Tories - The crisis is an opportunity to sweep away the rotten postwar settlement of British politics. Labour is moribund. But David Cameron has a chance to develop a "red Tory" communitarianism, socially conservative but sceptical of neoliberal economics - February 2009
 * Let's get local - What economic system would really benefit humanity?: Applying of the doctrine of subsidiarity to global economic life offers a radical alternative to the current impasse - 30th January 2009
 * Thatcher is back - In reverting to the old economics, the Tories are squandering the gains of their fresh social critique - 20th November 2008
 * On the right road - Progressive Conservatism must now rethink market economics, but at least it is not wedded to the centralist state - 6th October 2008
 * Medieval thinking - Not top-down directives, but community-based problem solving will finally put an end to the bureaucratic age - 30th September 2008
 * Allow me to suggest, George - If I were shadow chancellor, I would say that only the Conservatives can end poverty-wage, exploitation Britain - 27th September 2008
 * What would the Tories do? - Without quite realising it, Conservatives have already embraced localism, part of the answer to the current economic crisis - 19th September 2008
 * A deeper shade of blue - Tories are now drawing on a radical conservative past that foretold flaws in Thatcher's market dogma - 21st August 2008
 * The true Tory progressives - Cameron could yet seal a new economic and social bond, the first genuinely radical move in 30 years - 30th May 2008
 * Outside View: The end of capitalism as we know it? - The Western world is in an economic crisis similar in scale to the oil shock of 1973. What we are seeing is nothing less than the unravelling of neo-liberalism – the dominant economic and ideological model of the last 30 years - 23rd March 2008
 * The problem with secularism (with Adrian Pabst) - 21st December 2006
 * The roots of Islamic terrorism (with Adrian Pabst) - 28th July 2005



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