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The original Red Tory

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"...Phillip Blond, author of the influential book Red Tory, has called Noel Skelton the “original Red Tory and one of the most important MPs and thinkers of his era..."

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ResPublica's International Press Coverage

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Over the last few months we have received quite a bit of attention from media outlets around the world, which we have gathered in the International Press section of our website. Below is a selection of some of the latest coverage: 31st of August: Deputy Director Asheem Singh spoke to the Portuguese 'ionline' about the Big Society available to download below. 12th August 2010: Some more Spanish coverage in La Gaceta: http://www.intereconomia.com/noticias-gaceta/internacional/%E2%80%9C-reino-unido-ejemplo-que-multiculturalismo-desastre%E2%80%9D Italian media coverage in Europa

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ResPublica Profiled in the Economist

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Send for the wonks

"When ResPublica, a new think-tank, was officially launched in November last year, the guest of honour was David Cameron, then the leader of the opposition. Just six months later, the “big society” was a key theme in his election campaign, an idea that can be clearly tracked back to Phillip Blond, ResPublica’s founder."

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ResPublica Director Phillip Blond discusses saving children's savings with the Guardian

by Zoe Williams 0

How petty-minded will this coalition be? Here is the test

But under the umbrella Save Child Savings, organisations from ResPublica (Phillip Blond's "red Tory" thinktank) to the Family and Parenting Institute (Katharine Rake's organisation, more red than Tory) crave one last favour. Halt the funds, if you absolutely must, but keep the infrastructure – the cost to do so is £2m a year, or thereabouts. In terms of a public savings initiative, that is tiny. It would leave the apparatus in place to power the whole thing up again when the country recovers from recession. To do otherwise would, in Blond's analogy, "be like building a motorway system for public transport, then saying 'we can't afford the public transport, let's tear down the motorway'. [The Child Trust Fund] is a huge national asset." Absolutely everybody I spoke to said "let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater". They really didn't want to; it was like a compulsion.

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LISTEN: Phillip Blond Speaks at Real Influence Matters Conference

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ResPublica Director Phillip Blond spoke at The Campaign Company event 'Real Influence Matters Conference' on Tuesday the 29th of June 2010. Click here to listen to his speech.

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Recent ResPublica Press Mentions

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From The Guardian: "Many commentators have pointed out that the UK's government system is one of the most centralised in the EU, so it has further to go than other countries to achieve greater localism. "We live in a society where power is concentrated," says Phillip Blond, who runs the thinktank ResPublica. Blond has been a huge influence on the present prime minister's idea about a "big society" approach, with people taking more responsibility for their own care and communities. He says it is now time for more radical change. "We've been pumping money into a dysfunctional system."

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This is the man credited with the Tories' big idea ... the 'Big Society'. Tomorrow he will damn England's school system and the 'incapable' kids it churns out

by Irena Barker 0

"...Phillip Blond, director of the think-tank ResPublica and creator of the prime minister's "Big Society", will say the need to specialise early has created "far too many artists terrified of maths" and legions of scientists "unable to write or communicate"..."

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Phillip Blond discusses the Big Society approach in the Guardian

by Jane Dudman 0

Councils asked to 'think big' on saving cash but share out service provision

"...Many commentators have pointed out that the UK's government system is one of the most centralised in the EU, so it has further to go than other countries to achieve greater localism. "We live in a society where power is concentrated," says Phillip Blond, who runs the thinktank ResPublica. Blond has been a huge influence on the present prime minister's idea about a "big society" approach, with people taking more responsibility for their own care and communities. He says it is now time for more radical change. "We've been pumping money into a dysfunctional system..."

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Phillip Blond calls for National Network of Foodbanks

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The impact of welfare cuts: Britons on the breadline

"...We need to have a national network of foodbanks," said Phillip Blond, of the think tank ResPublica. "We know there are going to be changes in the welfare system, and we know that when people transfer over, there will be delays. So we need to understand that people are going to fall through the cracks..."

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New Governor at the Bank Of England cites research by ResPublica Fellow, Professor Roger Steare in call for better ethics in the City

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ResPublica Fellow Roger Steare welcomes new Deputy Governor of the Bank of England Hector Sants intervention in the corporate governance debate.

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