Phillip Blond

Profile: Full name: Phillip Blond Area of interest: economics, politics (esp. Conservative politics), religion Journals/Organisation: The Guardian, various Email: phillip.blond@respublica.org.uk Personal website: Website: ResPublica Blog: Guardian.co / Phillip Blond Representation: Networks: http://twitter.com/#!/Phillip_Blond | http://twitter.com/#!/res_publica | Facebook page

Biography: About: 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 also writes/written for: Other roles/Main role: Other activities: Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: 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 Broadcast media: Video: 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 Awards/Honours: Scoops: Other:

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) File:Adrian Pabst Christoph Schneider Eastern Orthdoxy.jpg 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 Speaking/Appearances: Debate:

Journals: Column name: Remit/Info: economics, politics (esp. Conservative politics), religion Section: Role: commentator Pen-name: Email: Website: Commissioning editor: Day published: Regularity: Column format: Average length:

Articles: All journals 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 The 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 The 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 Reclaiming a Liberal legacy - The party's great postwar leader Jo Grimond would have approved of David Cameron's 'big society' - 22nd September 2010 We 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 No 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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