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By On 13/06/2012 · Leave a Comment

Michael Buckley looks forward to Blue Labour’s forthcoming Midlands Seminar

In a couple of weeks I’ll be attending the Blue Labour Midlands Seminar, a day of lectures and discussion headed by Professor John Milbank and Lord Glasman. The arrival of the seminar seems somewhat out of time; Blue Labour in some way feels like a [...]

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John Milbank - JOHN MOI

Blue Labour Midlands seminar

By On 21/05/2012 · Leave a Comment

Professors John Milbank and Adrian Pabst, alongside Richard Robinson and Ian Geary, host a discussion on the future of Blue Labour

6 July 2012, 9:30 to 17:00

Centre of Theology and Philosophy
The University of Nottingham

Email here to reserve a place

‘The Primacy of the Social and Ethical – How Blue Labour speaks to the social, political and [...]

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Philip Blond - NICKY GETGOOD

Blue Labour v Red Tory

By On 27/10/2011 · Leave a Comment

Independent columnist Steve Richards hosts Maurice Glasman, Philip Blond and Rowenna Davis

Monday 14 November at 7pm

Kings Place
90 York Way
London
N1 9AG

Book tickets here

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Mike O'Brien, former MP for North Warwickshire - DOMINIC CAMPBELL

Blue Labour in Warwickshire

By On 18/10/2011 · Leave a Comment

The Warwickshire Fabian Society hosts Blue Labour’s Maurice Glasman

Thursday 20 October 2011 at 7:30pm

Friends Meeting House
28 Regent Place
Rugby
CV21 2PN

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Blond and Glasman: exclusive extracts from new book

By On 26/09/2011 · Leave a Comment

In these extracts from journalist Rowenna Davis’s new book, Tangled Up In Blue, Blue Labour’s Maurice Glasman and ‘Red Tory’ Phillip Blond speak about each other’s work

Glasman’s frustration came to a head in a seminar with Blond in Westminster’s Portcullis House in the spring of 2009. Blond had been brought in to discuss his [...]

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Reeves Corner, Croydon, August 2011 - DULCIE LEE

Riots and the responsible society

By On 16/08/2011 · Leave a Comment

Luke Bretherton says irresponsibility at the top is just as much to blame for the riots as that of the rioters themselves

David Cameron said the rioters represented ‘pockets’ of society that were ‘sick’.

His analysis was both wrong and worryingly misguided.  To say someone is sick is to suggest they are not responsible for [...]

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Lords Labour whip Lord Liddle lays down the law, May 2011 - FRIENDS OF EUROPE

Toeing the line gets you nowhere

By On 13/08/2011 · Leave a Comment

Ed Pocock says that freedom of thought is the only way to keep the party faithful after years of the ‘election machine’

Lords Labour whip Lord Liddle lays down the law, May 2011 – FRIENDS OF EUROPE

Throughout modern history, political discourse has been governed by the most dominant ideological strands of thought.

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The clean-up begins in Hackney's Mare Street - EDUARDO CARRASCO

Suspending the material: after liberal individualism

By On 11/08/2011 · Leave a Comment

Jack Reid puts the case for religious organisation as a transformative force in our political culture

The clean-up begins in Hackney’s Mare Street – EDUARDO CARRASCO

Democracy, founded above all on the principle of equality, is struggling to function properly in contemporary Western societies, primarily due to the insatiable individualism that these cultures currently [...]

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Nostalgia won’t win the next election – nor should it

By On 04/04/2011 · Leave a Comment

Patrick Macfarlane says that investing in families and communities can – and should – be a clear sign that society is looking towards the future

There are some who think that blue Labour ideas are all about nostalgia.

Madeleine Bunting’s article in today’s Guardian highlights some important challenges for the party in reconnecting with working [...]

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Welcome to Blue Labour

By On 01/04/2011 · Leave a Comment

Blue Labour is the Labour Party pressure group that aims to put relationships and responsibility at the heart of British politics.

Launched in 2009 by academic and Labour peer Maurice Glasman, the organisation is dedicated to reclaiming distinctive traditions of reciprocity and mutuality in the labour movement.

It combines respect for family, faith and work [...]

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