Writers

Phillip Blond

Phillip Blond is director of ResPublica.

Politics
With a Red Tory vision for Britain, Boris Johnson and his new Conservatives will triumph
By moving his party economically left and culturally right, Boris Johnson knows he has a winning formula.

By Phillip Blond
12 May
Culture
Should the march of the Red Tories ever have been halted?
If only May had offered policies in line with her early rhetoric, people would have had something to vote for, rather than against.

By Phillip Blond
06 July
Culture
How to win the future: why Blue Labour is the way forward
In a world so highly individualised, what we need is a cultural rather than an economic politics.

By Phillip Blond
29 April
Politics
Dave must take the Red Tory turn
The “big society” was the Tories’ chance to remake a broken society and economy. The opportunity was
By Phillip Blond
02 October
Politics
Poverty impoverishes us all
Cameron's Tories, unlike the left, recognise that we are in social as well as economic crisis
By Phillip Blond
29 October
Culture
Labour’s betrayal of society
The dominant legacy of the left is state authoritarianism and private libertarianism
By Phillip Blond
24 September

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