Amidst the hustle bustle of Euston station, I attended and event at 30 Euston Square, for a insight into the world of social entrepreneurship. Upon arrival staff welcomed and directed me to registration hall and coffee stands. As I poured myself a coffee, I felt a little overwhelmed by the male dominated room. A sense of discomfort clouded over me, as the age gaps seemed to quite large as well. I met Robin Pakenham from Uprise a social
developer & a finance director, and he put my mind at ease about the event and being here. We both took our seats in the auditorium and Liam Black took the stage. Liam spoke of his book - The social entrepreneurs A -Z, which I found very inspiring and motivational. His presentation included useful information and a number of funny jokes. Everyone was interactive with a open Q&A session. As he asked if any young person wanted to comment on 'service users' I felt I needed to comment 'service users can't benefit if the service provider has no understanding nor experience in the service they are providing.' It opened up larger conversation than I intended, which lead to disagreements with fellow attendees about how young people are difficult to train, at an apprentice level, to attain a higher position at a management level, because they had the passion and pleasure but didn't have the skills. Which you would assume would be provided through the course of the apprenticeship. I found that to be the greatest disrespect as a young person who was aiming to contribute to society while being passionate about what I do. Throughout the day, I came across Lucy Adams, ex BBC employee, who had suffered a lot of trauma whilst employed by BBC, in a workshop called Scar Tissues, whom I found inspiring. I learnt from her that the best way forward after failure is to be better not bitter.
I created conversation with various entrepreneurs throughout the day, gained valuable knowledge and which created a sense of urgency in my mind to get on and do good through Kazuri. I never felt so motivated and fixated on my vision, a vision I share with all the people in this conference with me, to do good for our communities. I left with more than I came in with and I never felt so better about myself, and what I do. I want to channel all my new found energy and what better way to do that but through Kazuri and it's visions and values. A vision to do what I say, and say what I do. To change life's of women who have suffered a form of trauma in life. Trauma comes in many forms and we shouldn't try fit the types of trauma in a box, for the box will be to small to hold what is actually happening right under our noses.
By Aisha Begum
Apprentice at Kazuri Properties CiC
The day-to-day, blow-by-blow account of David v Goliath, in which the good little guy (social enterprise, private and institutional investment, best practise, third sector and localism) wins. Taking the power back from big bad Government and effecting local solutions through community action. Think social justice. On Red Bull. Eventually.
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Wednesday, 26 November 2014
Thursday, 25 July 2013
Implementing the Public Service (Social Value) Act 2012
View Chris White MP's talk at the Justice Academy last month here
Chris White MP first introduced the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 as a private member's bill in June 2010, it came into effect in April 2013 and for the first time all public bodies in England and Wales are requited to consider howthe services they commission might improve the economic, environmental and social well being of the area.
In this talk, Chris discusses how the Act is being implemented and how it seeks to change the way that public bodies design contracts. Chris also discusses how the Act is aimed at benefiting social enterprises, charities and community organisations, as he believes these organisations can provide maximum public benefit to the local community.
Chris White MP first introduced the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 as a private member's bill in June 2010, it came into effect in April 2013 and for the first time all public bodies in England and Wales are requited to consider howthe services they commission might improve the economic, environmental and social well being of the area.
In this talk, Chris discusses how the Act is being implemented and how it seeks to change the way that public bodies design contracts. Chris also discusses how the Act is aimed at benefiting social enterprises, charities and community organisations, as he believes these organisations can provide maximum public benefit to the local community.
Wednesday, 2 January 2013
"Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now."
So we did it. We begged bullied and roasted you till you came up with over two thousand pounds for our Buzzbnk campaign which you can see here, to put a woman who has suffered violence and trauma into decent sustainable housing.
The woman is in her late forties and recently deported from the Caribbean having served a prison sentence for overstaying her Visa. She has recently undergone a mastectomy and recovering, we'll know the outcome of the surgery in 7 or 8 weeks.
The first step is to provide decent housing and tomorrow she is coming to see us and meet our advocate who will work with her for the next twelve months to secure the support and services she needs and in order to begin and sustain her desistance journey.
Thanks again for your amazing support. You can still contribute via PayPal or standing order to help cover the costs of the one to one support. The first milestone reached on Buzzbnk enables Kazuri to pay a month's rent and deposit to secure sustainable housing for her.
We'll keep you updated about her progress.
We got this from one of our favorite people this morning, accelerated art trauma practitioner, Marion Green.
"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back-- Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now."
source:last two lines Goethe from Faust, the rest is attributed to him.
Thank you for your support!
K Team
London 2 January 2013.
Tuesday, 25 December 2012
The return of the wise woman
Lynne Franks - business woman, author and broadcaster on the rise of the wise woman talking about the role of the older generation in the transfer of skills to the new generation of women warriors.
Sunday, 19 February 2012
NESTA's 12 for 2012
12 predictions for 2012
To mark the start of a new year we've put together a collection of predictions for the year ahead spanning the tech, retail and entertainment industries as well as business and the public sector. Here are our 12 predictions for 2012:12 predictions for 2012
Your mobile wallet Technology enabling our phones to act as mobile wallets will finally break through
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The death and life of great public servants A growing movement of leaders will challenge the separation of public and private sectors
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The year of the crowdfunder 2012 will prove an important year for the evolution of business funding
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Outside the Box Next year we'll see a seismic shift in how we understand, view and make television
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Wednesday, 23 November 2011
Works for Freedom
Having a job with a regular income can turn an offender's life around, says community liaison prison officer Dave Damerell, who believes employment is the route out of crime. Too often, they are not given the opportunity to prove that they can hold down a job after a long spell in prison.
But that is not the case for inmates at Norwich prison, where Damerell has helped offenders into employment after creating a work experience programme with the local shopping centre.
Since it was set up two years ago, 80% of the 89 offenders who have completed the eight-week scheme left prison with a job lined up – more than double the national rate. And of that group, only one has reoffended since being released from prison.
Damerell says: "Prisoners do really want to change their lives, but quite often they aren't given the opportunity to prove themselves. If you can get prisoners on that first step then you can also reduce the reoffending rate, which also benefits victims of crime."
When the scheme was first developed with the Chapelfield shopping centre, just a 20-minute walk from the male prison, offenders were involved in reopening its waste recycling plant, collecting and sorting rubbish from the centre shops. The experience not only boosted the prisoners' own employment skills and confidence, but helped to reduce the amount of rubbish from the complex that was sent to landfill, cutting it from 37 tonnes a month to just three. Today, offenders can be found at Chapelfield working as part of the maintenance and cleaning teams, as well as alongside customer service staff at the centre's information desk.
Damerell, 48, who joined the service 20 years ago, says retailers have been keen to get involved with the scheme even when they knew the criminal background of the offenders, who are all low-risk prisoners with a varied criminal history, from drug-related offences to burglary.
He says: "There is 100% disclosure – everybody knows the prisoner's offence. I've had no adverse comments from the retailers; all of them are fully on board."
The work experience programme has been so successful that Damerell is recruiting more local employers to the scheme, while other prisons from across the county are hoping to copy the Norwich model.
Damerell has also helped establish a volunteering programme at the 767-inmate prison in partnership with local charities and other community groups. Every month the prison declares a community day where a group of offenders, as part of their rehabilitation, spend time outside the prison doing voluntary work alongside prison officers and other volunteers and charity workers.
He says: "The benefit to the prisoners is that they get to mix with normal people outside of the prison environment as part of a group all working together." Since Damerell set up the scheme prisoners from Norwich have clocked up 85,848 volunteering hours between them.
Damerell has worked in resettlement for 10 years and has no plans for a career change. "Having a job on release from prison totally changes a prisoner's life and that of their family 100%," he says. "For me, the satisfaction comes from helping somebody achieve that, and, at the same time, reduce the reoffending rate and protect victims of crime. I really enjoy getting up in the morning and coming to work – I don't think everybody can say that."
But that is not the case for inmates at Norwich prison, where Damerell has helped offenders into employment after creating a work experience programme with the local shopping centre.
Since it was set up two years ago, 80% of the 89 offenders who have completed the eight-week scheme left prison with a job lined up – more than double the national rate. And of that group, only one has reoffended since being released from prison.
Damerell says: "Prisoners do really want to change their lives, but quite often they aren't given the opportunity to prove themselves. If you can get prisoners on that first step then you can also reduce the reoffending rate, which also benefits victims of crime."
When the scheme was first developed with the Chapelfield shopping centre, just a 20-minute walk from the male prison, offenders were involved in reopening its waste recycling plant, collecting and sorting rubbish from the centre shops. The experience not only boosted the prisoners' own employment skills and confidence, but helped to reduce the amount of rubbish from the complex that was sent to landfill, cutting it from 37 tonnes a month to just three. Today, offenders can be found at Chapelfield working as part of the maintenance and cleaning teams, as well as alongside customer service staff at the centre's information desk.
Damerell, 48, who joined the service 20 years ago, says retailers have been keen to get involved with the scheme even when they knew the criminal background of the offenders, who are all low-risk prisoners with a varied criminal history, from drug-related offences to burglary.
He says: "There is 100% disclosure – everybody knows the prisoner's offence. I've had no adverse comments from the retailers; all of them are fully on board."
The work experience programme has been so successful that Damerell is recruiting more local employers to the scheme, while other prisons from across the county are hoping to copy the Norwich model.
Damerell has also helped establish a volunteering programme at the 767-inmate prison in partnership with local charities and other community groups. Every month the prison declares a community day where a group of offenders, as part of their rehabilitation, spend time outside the prison doing voluntary work alongside prison officers and other volunteers and charity workers.
He says: "The benefit to the prisoners is that they get to mix with normal people outside of the prison environment as part of a group all working together." Since Damerell set up the scheme prisoners from Norwich have clocked up 85,848 volunteering hours between them.
Damerell has worked in resettlement for 10 years and has no plans for a career change. "Having a job on release from prison totally changes a prisoner's life and that of their family 100%," he says. "For me, the satisfaction comes from helping somebody achieve that, and, at the same time, reduce the reoffending rate and protect victims of crime. I really enjoy getting up in the morning and coming to work – I don't think everybody can say that."
Letter to Frank Dobson MP
Dear Frank Dobson MP and Sir Malcolm
I work for Kazuri Properties Ltd, a social enterprise which rehouses vulnerable women, women leaving supported housing and women leaving prison and domestic violence shelters. It is based in Camden and Kensington I’m writing to ask you to support Chris White MP’s Bill on “Public Services (Social Value)” at the Third Reading on November 25th.
This Bill could make a real difference to social enterprises like Kazuri Properties , which are competing for public service contracts. Social enterprises reinvest profits back into services and the local community and have a good track record of delivering efficiencies without compromising on quality. We’ve done it here at Kazuri and with the help of this Bill, social enterprises across the UK could soon find it easier to win the chance to do the same in their own communities.
Requiring all procurement decisions to demonstrate their wider positive social and environmental impact will ensure that the full weight of the public sector’s purchasing power is directed at achieving social and environmental benefits, alongside delivering financial efficiency.
In particular, the Bill could help to:
- Minimise the impact of the spending cuts on civil society organisations
Civil society organisations are really feeling the impact of the public sector cuts. Ensuring that future public spending decisions create additional social value in the community served could help mitigate against the impact of cuts and ensure that the decisions that are made create greater value.
- Support local job creation
In some areas of the UK where the public sector is by far the largest employer, spending cuts are inevitably going to impact on unemployment. Ensuring that all spending decisions require contractors to support local employment opportunities can play a part in reducing the impact of this.
- Widen the market and increase choice
All too often public sector markets are created in such a way that only a small number of large providers are able to compete. This Bill would allow the added value social enterprises offer to be taken into account, encouraging them to enter the market and increasing choice, innovation and value for money.
Thank you for taking the time to read my email and I hope I can count on your support for this Bill.
Yours sincerely,
Farah Damji
Kazuri Properties Ltd
Kazuri Properties Ltd
Tuesday, 5 July 2011
Big Society and beyond.
An interesting interview about Philip Blond by Alison Roberts in the Evening Standard
He is due at No 10 in a couple of hours, he tells me. Sitting next to him throughout our interview is a "media adviser" from the PR company headed by Nick Wood, a former spokesman for Iain Duncan Smith and William Hague. Blond, 44, is clearly plugged into the machinery of the Tory party and is often described as a key member of the Prime Minister's inner circle; the provider of Cameron's "mood music". Though the Big Society was not his coinage ("I am one of the fathers, though not the sole father"), he "was there when [the idea] was formed" and has published in the first year of ResPublica's existence a string of reports which, he claims, have immediately found their way into government policy.
So does he think the Big Society is working yet?
"I am frustrated," he says carefully. "It's been communicated very badly partly because it hasn't been thought through radically enough. I think the great missing middle of the Big Society is the economics. The social aspect of it everybody agrees with. For me, it's not really about volunteering and philanthropy, it's about changing the agenda for those at the bottom of our society and in my view the Government hasn't really thought through, across all departments, the radical economic implications of that."
He hints, indeed, at a battle within government between ministers who buy the Big Society and those who don't. "If you've got a big idea, it's imperative that that idea is transmitted across all of your government and in order for that to happen there has to be a department that owns the Big Society. It has to be joined up … It's as though there are competing philosophies of what conservatism is, and that's fine, that's politics. But the sort of radical conservatism I like is coming up on the inside track rather than being the leading horse it should be."
Earlier this month ResPublica issued a report called Children and the Big Society, which contained implicit criticism of Coalition policy on children's services. Today Blond is more explicit. He thinks local authority cuts have been introduced too quickly. "It's almost as if the Government doesn't believe in its own policies. Libraries and children's centres are closing before the right to challenge [local council spending decisions] and the right to take over [public buildings] has come in. I'd have given it more time. I would not have front-loaded local authority cuts in order to allow these new models to come in." Both rights are included in the Localism Bill, which is currently winding its way through the House of Lords.
Blond repeatedly insists that he is a genuine champion of the poor - Red Toryism diagnoses working-class poverty as Britain's greatest ailment - yet acknowledges that many of the Coalition's public spending cuts are bound to have the greatest impact on those at the bottom.
Shouldn't government have ring-fenced local authority money for Sure Start, for example? "And it's not just Sure Start … It's clear that some councils are cutting voluntary services and others are expanding them, so it's a political decision. The recipients of those services should have a say."
How can it be right, as research has shown, that local authority cuts are falling most harshly on the most deprived areas in the land, including Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Newham? "Yes, that's tricky," he muses, with some understatement. "If you're going to cut in those areas, then I think it's incumbent on you to broker in the same areas genuinely different solutions with state backing. The most deprived areas in my view should have the most help, but the help they have shouldn't be like the help they've had in the past. I would go much further with the banks, for instance."
He calls George Osborne's plans to sell off Northern Rock to the highest private bidder "unimaginative and depressing". "I would like part of that sell-off to be reserved for an enterprise fund for disadvantaged areas. I argued for a kind of people's Dragons' Den so that people could bid for money to start social businesses and enterprises."
However, it's the abolition of the £30 a week education maintenance allowance, paid to underprivileged 16-year-olds to keep them at school or college, that triggers a full-blown rant which I interpret as serious dismay: "Look, I'm basically in favour of a state market-type approach to try to level the playing field for all our people. And what I find disturbing about the rhetoric of social mobility is that it suggests that everybody who's left behind is a loser and a failure. And given that we progress so few people from one group to the group above, it suggests that the population who defeated Hitler, who have been behind most of what's good in current history, is somehow something to be looked down upon. I love my culture. I love the people in this country and I want to create the conditions in which they prosper economically and socially, whereas what I see when I go around the country is a horror show. Particularly for those at he bottom, it's a terrifying horror show."
The controversy lies in Blond's cure for these deep social failings. While prioritising the family and marriage as central to the nation's health, Red Toryism prescribes the wholesale rolling back of state power and responsibility as a means of transferring assets to the working and middle classes. It advocates the handing over of budgets, buildings and services to community groups, to existing employees, or to private companies - proposals close to the Prime Minister's heart, which are likely to appear in the forthcoming public services reform White Paper, dubbed the Big Society Bill. Blond has "no philosophical problem" with public services - including schools and hospitals - being run on a for-profit basis (unlike Nick Clegg).
On this day of teachers' strikes, he insists that progressive education has failed miserably and that schools should be "re-intellectualised" by ensuring greater contact with universities, even introducing "philosophers" and PhD students into the school environment. Try that in Tottenham, I tell him. "No, but it can work. It really can," he cries. "One of the most consequent factors on how a school does, which I think the Government has subtly recognised, is the quality of teachers. We don't get enough people with first-class degrees going into teaching … We need a much better quality of teaching."
Blond has no children himself and is not married, though he'd like a family one day (an eight-year relationship that didn't work out is to blame, he says).
Barely three years ago, he was a teacher himself - an "obscure academic" lecturing in theology and philosophy at what's now the University of Cumbria. He grew up in Liverpool, "in a strong Catholic working-class culture", his father a painter and gallery-owner. His parents divorced when he was 16 and his father remarried, as a result of which, weirdly, Blond is the stepbrother of actor Daniel Craig and now has an in-law in Rachel Weisz (no, he didn't go to the wedding and, sadly, won't divulge any gossip: "Daniel and I have a mutual agreement not to talk about each other").
A series of newspaper articles won him fans in London - among them, the Prime Minister's chief strategist Steve Hilton - and so Blond came to London to flesh out his political philosophy in the comfort of Westminster's think-tank culture.
He is enjoying himself immensely: "These have been the most remarkable years of my life. Normally as an academic you strike a bargain with the world that you'll write solidly for 30 years and nobody will ever read any of it. To suddenly move from that, to this … it's exhilarating." He grins. "This will sound twee to you - but I want to come up with ideas that work for the country I love."
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| David Cameron's mood music |
With cuts like these - it's as if the Government doesn't believe in its own policies
David Cameron's favourite 'Red Tory', Phillip Blond, tells Alison Roberts that Cabinet infighting and a failure to grasp the point of the Big Society is punishing the poor. Where did it all go wrong?
Phillip Blond, founder of the Right-wing think-tank ResPublica and driving intellectual force behind David Cameron's Big Society, lives in an apartment in King's Cross - the kind of aspirational loft-style bachelor pad that has bronze-burnished doors, an all mod-cons kitchen and ultra-trendy chairs. He says he's not "area dependent", meaning it doesn't matter where in London he lives, which strikes me as odd since his book Red Tory, in some senses the Big Society manual, constantly exhorts us to build better communities through neighbourliness and local social enterprise. The guru of Conservative-style localism, it turns out, doesn't actually have a locality to call his own.He is due at No 10 in a couple of hours, he tells me. Sitting next to him throughout our interview is a "media adviser" from the PR company headed by Nick Wood, a former spokesman for Iain Duncan Smith and William Hague. Blond, 44, is clearly plugged into the machinery of the Tory party and is often described as a key member of the Prime Minister's inner circle; the provider of Cameron's "mood music". Though the Big Society was not his coinage ("I am one of the fathers, though not the sole father"), he "was there when [the idea] was formed" and has published in the first year of ResPublica's existence a string of reports which, he claims, have immediately found their way into government policy.
So does he think the Big Society is working yet?
"I am frustrated," he says carefully. "It's been communicated very badly partly because it hasn't been thought through radically enough. I think the great missing middle of the Big Society is the economics. The social aspect of it everybody agrees with. For me, it's not really about volunteering and philanthropy, it's about changing the agenda for those at the bottom of our society and in my view the Government hasn't really thought through, across all departments, the radical economic implications of that."
He hints, indeed, at a battle within government between ministers who buy the Big Society and those who don't. "If you've got a big idea, it's imperative that that idea is transmitted across all of your government and in order for that to happen there has to be a department that owns the Big Society. It has to be joined up … It's as though there are competing philosophies of what conservatism is, and that's fine, that's politics. But the sort of radical conservatism I like is coming up on the inside track rather than being the leading horse it should be."
Earlier this month ResPublica issued a report called Children and the Big Society, which contained implicit criticism of Coalition policy on children's services. Today Blond is more explicit. He thinks local authority cuts have been introduced too quickly. "It's almost as if the Government doesn't believe in its own policies. Libraries and children's centres are closing before the right to challenge [local council spending decisions] and the right to take over [public buildings] has come in. I'd have given it more time. I would not have front-loaded local authority cuts in order to allow these new models to come in." Both rights are included in the Localism Bill, which is currently winding its way through the House of Lords.
Blond repeatedly insists that he is a genuine champion of the poor - Red Toryism diagnoses working-class poverty as Britain's greatest ailment - yet acknowledges that many of the Coalition's public spending cuts are bound to have the greatest impact on those at the bottom.
Shouldn't government have ring-fenced local authority money for Sure Start, for example? "And it's not just Sure Start … It's clear that some councils are cutting voluntary services and others are expanding them, so it's a political decision. The recipients of those services should have a say."
How can it be right, as research has shown, that local authority cuts are falling most harshly on the most deprived areas in the land, including Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Newham? "Yes, that's tricky," he muses, with some understatement. "If you're going to cut in those areas, then I think it's incumbent on you to broker in the same areas genuinely different solutions with state backing. The most deprived areas in my view should have the most help, but the help they have shouldn't be like the help they've had in the past. I would go much further with the banks, for instance."
He calls George Osborne's plans to sell off Northern Rock to the highest private bidder "unimaginative and depressing". "I would like part of that sell-off to be reserved for an enterprise fund for disadvantaged areas. I argued for a kind of people's Dragons' Den so that people could bid for money to start social businesses and enterprises."
However, it's the abolition of the £30 a week education maintenance allowance, paid to underprivileged 16-year-olds to keep them at school or college, that triggers a full-blown rant which I interpret as serious dismay: "Look, I'm basically in favour of a state market-type approach to try to level the playing field for all our people. And what I find disturbing about the rhetoric of social mobility is that it suggests that everybody who's left behind is a loser and a failure. And given that we progress so few people from one group to the group above, it suggests that the population who defeated Hitler, who have been behind most of what's good in current history, is somehow something to be looked down upon. I love my culture. I love the people in this country and I want to create the conditions in which they prosper economically and socially, whereas what I see when I go around the country is a horror show. Particularly for those at he bottom, it's a terrifying horror show."
The controversy lies in Blond's cure for these deep social failings. While prioritising the family and marriage as central to the nation's health, Red Toryism prescribes the wholesale rolling back of state power and responsibility as a means of transferring assets to the working and middle classes. It advocates the handing over of budgets, buildings and services to community groups, to existing employees, or to private companies - proposals close to the Prime Minister's heart, which are likely to appear in the forthcoming public services reform White Paper, dubbed the Big Society Bill. Blond has "no philosophical problem" with public services - including schools and hospitals - being run on a for-profit basis (unlike Nick Clegg).
On this day of teachers' strikes, he insists that progressive education has failed miserably and that schools should be "re-intellectualised" by ensuring greater contact with universities, even introducing "philosophers" and PhD students into the school environment. Try that in Tottenham, I tell him. "No, but it can work. It really can," he cries. "One of the most consequent factors on how a school does, which I think the Government has subtly recognised, is the quality of teachers. We don't get enough people with first-class degrees going into teaching … We need a much better quality of teaching."
Blond has no children himself and is not married, though he'd like a family one day (an eight-year relationship that didn't work out is to blame, he says).
Barely three years ago, he was a teacher himself - an "obscure academic" lecturing in theology and philosophy at what's now the University of Cumbria. He grew up in Liverpool, "in a strong Catholic working-class culture", his father a painter and gallery-owner. His parents divorced when he was 16 and his father remarried, as a result of which, weirdly, Blond is the stepbrother of actor Daniel Craig and now has an in-law in Rachel Weisz (no, he didn't go to the wedding and, sadly, won't divulge any gossip: "Daniel and I have a mutual agreement not to talk about each other").
A series of newspaper articles won him fans in London - among them, the Prime Minister's chief strategist Steve Hilton - and so Blond came to London to flesh out his political philosophy in the comfort of Westminster's think-tank culture.
He is enjoying himself immensely: "These have been the most remarkable years of my life. Normally as an academic you strike a bargain with the world that you'll write solidly for 30 years and nobody will ever read any of it. To suddenly move from that, to this … it's exhilarating." He grins. "This will sound twee to you - but I want to come up with ideas that work for the country I love."
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