About ResPublica

ResPublica is an independent, non-partisan public policy think-tank established in 2009 by Phillip Blond to provide solutions to problems that have resisted conventional approaches and orthodox analysis. We are a broad spectrum organization that looks to address the enduring issues in the economy, society and culture.

Economically, we need to move beyond outmoded convention and ask instead serious questions about how we should develop and grow and what sort of society we need to become. We need to ask why Britain has failed to develop a balanced economy where all can prosper.

We have created a society where far too many of us are dependent on debt and state welfare instead of being liberated through widely extended ownership.

We would like to foster new approaches to economic inequality, investment and group behaviour, so that the benefits of capital, trade and entrepreneurship are open to all.

Socially, the ties that bind our society are frayed. Human relationships should once more be the centre and meaning of our lives.

Building upon the tradition of a reciprocal and engaged civic society, ResPublica believes that our society can enter the post-bureaucratic age through social innovation and recovery of association.

Culturally, we need to recover the language and practice of the common good, so that our diversity and plurality becomes the strength that it truly is.

Our Advisory Board, which is still being expanded, currently consists of:

Oliver Letwin MP

Zac Goldsmith

Greg Clark MP

James Forsyth

John Hayes MP

Stuart Etherington