 Blond was a senior lecturer in Christian theology at the Lancaster campus of 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 establish his own think-tank, ResPublica.Blond gained prominence from a cover story in "Prospect" magazine in the February 2009 edition with his essay on Red Toryism, which proposed a radical communitarian traditionalist conservatism that inveighed against both state and market monopoly.