Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman

The Lord Glasman
Official portrait of Lord Glasman
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
4 February 2011
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born (1961-03-08) 8 March 1961 (age 63)
London, England
Political partyLabour
Other political
affiliations
Blue Labour
SpouseCatherine Glasman
Children4
EducationClapton Jewish Day School
Jews' Free School
Alma materSt Catharine's College, Cambridge (BA)
University of York (MA)
European University Institute (PhD)
OccupationAcademic, peer

Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman (born 8 March 1961) is an English political theorist, academic, social commentator, and Labour life peer in the House of Lords. He is a senior lecturer in Political Theory at London Metropolitan University, Director of its Faith and Citizenship Programme and a columnist for the New Statesman, UnHerd, Tablet and Spiked.[1][2][3][4] He is best known as a founder of Blue Labour, a term he coined in 2009.

  1. ^ "Maurice Glasman, Author at New Statesman". New Statesman.
  2. ^ "Maurice Glasman, author at UnHerd". UnHerd.
  3. ^ "From Contract to Covenant". Tablet.
  4. ^ "Maurice Glasman, Author at spiked". Spiked.