The Frontmen behind Common Purpose's Marxist Brainwashing Package:

1) Julian Legrand

Julian Le Grand is the Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy at the London
School of Economics and Political Science. From 2003 to 2005 he was seconded to
Number 10 Downing Street as Senior Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister.

He is an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine, a Senior

Associate of the Kings Fund, and a Founding Academician of the Academy of Learned
Societies for the Social Sciences. In 2006 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by
the University of Sussex.

He currently holds two Government chairmanships: Chairman of Health England: the

National Reference Group for Health and Well Being for the Department of Health;
and Chairman of the Social Care Practices Working Group for the Department for
Education and Skills. He is also a member of the Group of Societal Policy Analysts
advising President Jose Barroso of the European Commission.

As well as these positions, he has acted as an adviser to the World Bank, the
World Health Organisation, HM Treasury, the Department of Work and Pensions and
the BBC. He has been vice-chairman of a major teaching hospital, a commissioner on
the Commission for Health Improvement, and a non-executive director of several
health authorities. He has served on many NHS working parties, on several think-
tank commissions and on two grants boards of the Economic and Social Research
Council.

He is the author, co-author or editor of seventeen books and over ninety articles
on economics, philosophy and public policy. His most recent book, Motivation,
Agency and Public Policy: of Knights and Knaves, Pawns and Queens (Oxford
University Press, 2006), was described by the Economist as ‘short, accessible -
and profound’. He was one of Prospect magazine’s 100 top British public
intellectuals, and one of the ESRC’s ten Heroes of Dissemination.

He is one of the principal architects of the UK Government’s current public

service reforms introducing choice and competition into health care and education.
In addition, he was the originator (sole or joint) of several recent developments
in UK and international social policy, including the ‘baby bond’ or Child Trust
Fund, the Partnership Scheme for funding long term care endorsed by the 2005
Wanless Report Securing Good Care for Older People, the Disadvantage Premium for
the education of children from less well off families and for looked after
children, and the Social Work Practice proposed in the 2006 Department for
Education and Skills Green Paper, Care Matters.

He writes regularly for the national and international press. He also appears
frequently on television and radio, including the Today Programme, The World at
One, The World Tonight and The Politics Show. He has been several times a member
of Radio 4’s Any Questions panel and has presented editions of Radio 4’s Analysis
and BBC 2’s The Big Idea.

2) Anthony Giddens

Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens (born January 18, 1938) is a British sociologist
who is renowned for his theory of structuration and his holistic view of modern
societies. He is considered to be one of the most prominent modern contributors in
the field of sociology, the author of at least 34 books, published in at least 29
languages, issuing on average more than one book every year.
Three notable stages can be identified in his academic life. The first one
involved outlining a new vision of what sociology is, presenting a theoretical and
methodological understanding of that field, based on a critical reinterpretation
of the classics. His major publications of that era include Capitalism and Modern
Social Theory (1971) and New Rules of Sociological Method (1976). In the second
stage Giddens developed the theory of structuration, an analysis of agency and
structure, in which primacy is granted to neither. His works of that period, like
Central Problems in Social Theory (1979) and The Constitution of Society (1984)
brought him international fame on the sociological arena. The most recent stage
concerns modernity, globalization and politics, especially the impact of modernity
on social and personal life. This stage is reflected by his critique of
postmodernity, and discussions of a new "utopian-realist"[1] third way in
politics, visible in the Consequence of Modernity (1990), Modernity and Self-
Identity (1991), The Transformation of Intimacy (1992), Beyond Left and Right
(1994) and The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy (1998). Giddens'
ambition is both to recast social theory and to re-examine our understanding of
the development and trajectory of modernity.
Currently Giddens serves as Emeritus Professor at the London School of Economics.

Biography

Giddens was born and raised in Edmonton, London, and grew up in a lower middle-
class family, son of a clerk with London Transport. He was the first member of his
family to go to university. He got his first academic degree from Hull University
in 1959, and later took a Master's degree from the London School of Economics,
followed by a PhD from King's College, Cambridge in 1974. In 1961 he started
working at the University of Leicester where he taught social psychology. At
Leicester, which was considered to be one of the seedbeds of British sociology, he
met Norbert Elias and began to work out his own theoretical position. In 1969 he
was appointed to a position at the University of Cambridge, where he later helped
create the Social and Political Sciences Committee (SPS - now PPSIS), a sub-unit
of the Faculty of Economics.
Giddens worked for many years at Cambridge as a fellow of King's College and was
eventually promoted to a full professorship in 1987. He is cofounder of Polity
Press (1985). From 1997 to 2003 he was director of the London School of Economics
and a member of the Advisory Council of the Institute for Public Policy Research.
He was also an adviser to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair; it was Giddens
whose "third way" political approach has been Tony Blair's (and Bill Clinton's)
guiding political idea. He has been a vocal participant in British political
debates, supporting the center-left Labour Party with media appearances and
articles (many of which are published in New Statesman). Giddens is a regular
contributor to the research and activities of progressive think-tank Policy
Network. He was given a life peerage in June 2004, as Baron Giddens, of Southgate
in the London Borough of Enfield and sits in the House of Lords for Labour.

3) David Marquand

David Ian Marquand FBA (born September 20, 1934) is a British academic and former
Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP).
Born in Cardiff, Marquand was educated at Emanuel School, Magdalen College,
Oxford, St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and at the University of California,
Berkeley. His father was Hilary Marquand, also an academic and former Labour MP.
Marquand’s writings are broadly based upon issues surrounding British politics and
social democracy. He is widely linked to the term “progressive politics” and the
concept of a “progressive dilemma” in British politics, although he has since
distanced himself from the term (if not the ideas it represents).
He was the MP for Ashfield from 1966 to 1977, when he resigned his seat to work as
Chief Advisor (from 1977 to 1978) to his mentor Roy Jenkins who had been appointed
President of the European Commission.
Marquand became the subject of an oft-repeated put-down in the House of Commons,
during Jenkins' farewell speech. Jenkins, who had difficulty pronouncing the
letter R, had said “I leave this party without rancor,” whereupon Dennis Skinner
heckled “I thought you were taking Marquand with you.”
During the 1970s split between “Croslandite” and “Jenkinsite” social democrats
within the Labour Party, Marquand was part of the Jenkins group and joined the
Social Democratic Party (SDP) upon its founding. Marquand sat on the party’s
national committee from 1981–88. When the SDP merged with the Liberal Party to
form the Liberal Democrats, Marquand became a Lib Dem, rejoining the Labour Party
following the election of Tony Blair as Labour leader.
Originally a tentative supporter of Blair’s New Labour, he has since become a
trenchant critic, arguing that “New Labour has ‘modernized’ the social-democratic
tradition out of all recognition,” retaining the over-centralization and disdain
for the radical intelligentsia of the old “Labourite” tradition. He is one of 20
signatories to the founding statement of the democratic Left group Compass.
Marquand has written extensively on the future of the European Union and the need
for constitutional reform in the United Kingdom.
Marquand’s academic career began as lecturer in politics at the University of
Sussex and included the occupancy of two chairs in politics, first at Salford and
then at Sheffield as well as Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford. Marquand is
currently a Visiting Fellow, department of politics, University of Oxford and
Honorary Professor of Politics, University of Sheffield. He was elected a Fellow
of the British Academy in 1998. He is recognised by the newly opened Marquand
Reading Room at his old school, Emanuel School in London.
In August 2008 Marquand published an article in The Guardian newspaper which was
seen by some as being complimentary about Conservative Party leader David Cameron.
Marquand called Cameron not a crypto-Thatcherite but a Whig and argued that
Cameron “offers inclusion, social harmony and evolutionary adaptation to the
cultural and socionomic changes of his age.…”[1]