Phillip Blond is a senior lecturer in philosophy and theology at the University of Cumbria. He is an internationally recognised political thinker, social commentator, and philosophical theologian. Phillip writes regularly for the Guardian, Independent, First Post and the International Herald Tribune. He is currently writing Red Tory, a book on radical progressive conservatism. He is interested in updating Catholic critiques of the state and the market. He is also working on a new conservative political economy, fundamental to which is the revival of local and regional economies.