Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman

Maurice Glasman interests me because he resists easy categories. A political theorist and Labour life peer who is also a working columnist, he keeps one foot in the academy and the other in public argument. His Walthamstow origins and his Faith and Citizenship work suggest a thinker rooted in community rather than abstraction, which I find more trustworthy than ivory-tower commentary. Whether or not you share his politics, there's value in an intellectual willing to wrestle publicly with messy questions of belonging and belief. I respect figures who think from the ground up, and Glasman strikes me as exactly that sort.

Name (English)

Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman

Name (Japanese)

モーリス・グラスマン (グラスマン男爵)

Reading

もーりす・ぐらすまん (ぐらすまん男爵)

Born

March 8, 1961 (age 65)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Ox

Origin

Walthamstow, United Kingdom

Occupation

philosopher / politician / university teacher

University

University of York

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice%20Glasman%2C%20Baron%20Glasman
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B0%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3%20(%E3%82%B0%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3%E7%94%B7%E7%88%B5)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1272406

Tags

• philosopher
• politician
• university teacher

Last updated

2026-06-20

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