blue labour: forging a new politics is a 2015 book edited by ian geary and adrian pabst. the collection of chapters by different contributors attempts to further articulate the blue labour political tendency within the labour party and british politics more generally, building on previous books such as "the labour tradition and the politics of paradox: the oxford london seminars, 2010–2011" and "tangled up in blue". in his foreword, rowan williams states that whilst contemporary academic thought is increasingly questioning the idea of a "solitary, speechless individual" with utilitarian aims as a theoretical starting-point, this has not been accompanied by an associated shift in public rhetoric and popular imagination. he expresses his belief that if people are to change politics in a positive manner, especially in light of the recent financial crisis, we must develop new communitarian approaches that start from civil society upwards. the remainder of the book is accordingly a development of this basic notion, arranged thematically.