 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 have always been connected of the hip, at least since the advent of Rousseau's thought, if not well before that in the work of 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.