Alexander Christopher Lee (born 1981) is a British historian and political theorist. He was educated at the King’s School, Worcester, Trinity College, Cambridge, and the University of Edinburgh. He currently teaches at the Università degli studi di Bergamo, in northern Italy. Full name The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity Motto Virtus vera nobilitas Virtue is true Nobility Named after The Holy Trinity Previous names King’s Hall and Michaelhouse (until merged in 1546) Established 1546 Sister College(s) Christ Church Master The Lord Rees of Ludlow Location Trinity Street... The University of Edinburgh (Scottish Gaelic: ), founded in 1582,[4] is a renowned centre for teaching and research in Edinburgh, Scotland. ...

Renaissance History

Lee is carrying out research at Edinburgh University on the Renaissance humanist and poet, Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch). Focusing on Petrarch's conception of virtue, Lee is interested in exploring the relationship between Augustinianism and Stoicism in his various prose works. The University of Edinburgh was founded in 1583 as a renowned centre for teaching in Edinburgh, Scotland. ... The Renaissance (French for rebirth, or Rinascimento in Italian), was a cultural movement in Italy (and in Europe in general) that began in the late Middle Ages, and spanned roughly the 14th through the 17th century. ... From the c. ...

Relations with the Conservative Party

Lee was a member of the Conservative Party for several years. He received a standing ovation for a speech on proportional representation at the party's 1997 conference, and numerous television appearances followed in which he strongly defended Conservative policies. His speech at the 1998 conference, in which he called forcefully for significant defence cuts, was less well received (with Simon Hoggart speculating in the Guardian that he was "taken away to be shot")^[1], but his commitment to the party platform was otherwise firm. The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is the second largest political party in the United Kingdom in terms of sitting Members of Parliament (MPs), the largest in terms of public membership, and the oldest political party in the United Kingdom. ... Proportional representation (sometimes referred to as full representation, or PR), is a category of electoral formula aiming at a close match between the percentage of votes that groups of candidates (grouped by a certain measure) obtain in elections and the percentage of seats they receive (usually in legislative assemblies). ... Several newspapers go by the name of Guardian: The Guardian, a British newspaper founded in 1821 as the Manchester Guardian, which took its current title in 1959. ...

As the party began to redefine itself from the leadership of Iain Duncan Smith onwards, however, he found himself at an increasing distance from many in the party. Coming to believe that Conservatism lacked the intellectual structures to deal effectively with major social issues, he came to identify most closely with moderate forms of communitarianism and, having been invited to make a short film with the BBC, was briefly expelled from the party in 2003, but was reinstated shortly afterwards. Rt. ... Communitarianism as a group of related but distinct philosophies began in the late 20th century, opposing radical individualism, and other similar philosophies while advocating phenomena such as civil society. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ...

He is highly critical of the Conservative Party's current leadership and its commitment to economic liberalism. Liberalism is an ideology, philosophical view, and political tradition which holds that liberty is the primary political value. ...

The End of Politics

Lee was the co-author with Timothy Stanley of The End of Politics: Triangulation, Realignment and the Battle for the Centre Ground. The book argues that Tony Blair’s leadership of the Labour Party heralded an era of triangulation in modern British politics. As parties competed for the centre ground so they began to erode their traditional values and demographic support. This has created fractures in patterns of political support and encouraged previously loyal Labour or Conservative voters to identify with minority parties and pressure group politics. Stanley and Lee argue for a politics based upon community and recognition of inter-dependence. The book is the first part of an ongoing exposition upon the philosophy of Communitarianism. It is proposed that this article be deleted, because of the following concern: uneccessary article If you can address this concern by improving, copyediting, sourcing, renaming or merging the page, please edit this page and do so. ... The End of Politics: Realignment and the Battle for the Centre Ground is a book authored by Timothy Stanley and Alexander Lee. ... For other people of the same name, see Tony Blair (disambiguation) Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born May 6, 1953)[1] is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, Leader of the Labour Party, and Member of Parliament for the constituency... The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. ... A community is a social group of organisms sharing an environment, normally with shared interests. ... Communitarianism as a group of related but distinct philosophies began in the late 20th century, opposing radical individualism, and other similar philosophies while advocating phenomena such as civil society. ...

Further Reading

Alexander Lee and Timothy Stanley, The End of Politics: Triangulation, Realignment and the Battle for the Centre Ground, (London: Politico's, July 1006), pp.179+xviii, ISBN 1842751743

Alexander Lee and Timothy Stanley, 'Rebuilding Labour's Majority,' (Compass Thinkpiece #17), http://www.compassonline.org.uk/publications/thinkpieces/item.asp?d=203

References

1. ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/tory99/Story/0,,202293,00.html