Career

Blond was the senior lecturer in St Martin's College and after the merger with Cumbria Institute of the Arts in August 2007 he worked at the Lancaster campus the University of Cumbria and was a lecturer in the Department of Theology at the University of Exeter.

Blond was the director of the Progressive Conservatism Project at the London-based think tank Demos, but left due to "political and philosophical differences" to defining his own think tank, ResPublica.

Blond gained prominence from a continue story in Prospect magazine in the February 2009 edition with his essay on red Toryism, which submission a radical communitarian traditionalist conservatism that inveighed against both state and market monopoly.

According to Blond, these two large-scale realities, while usually spoken of as diametrically opposed, are in reality the two sides of the same coin. As he explains it, modern and postmodern individualism and statism hold always been connected of the hip, at least since the advent of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's thought, if non well previously that in the pretend of Thomas Hobbes. In a series of articles in both The Guardian and The Independent he has argued for a wider recognition of the merits of civic conservatism and an appreciation of the potentially transformative impact of a new Tory settlement.

In 2010, The Daily Telegraph called him "a driving force slow David Cameron's 'Big Society' agenda."

Blond is a fellow of the National Endowment for Science, engineering and the Arts.