He is a senior lecturer in Political Theory at London Metropolitan University, Director of its Faith and Citizenship Programme and a columnist for the New Statesman, UnHerd, Tablet and Spiked.

His father Coleman "Collie" Glasman, a Labour Zionist,[6] had a small toy manufacturing business that eventually collapsed.

On 4 February 2011, he was created Baron Glasman of Stoke Newington and of Stamford Hill in the London Borough of Hackney by Queen Elizabeth II[12] and was introduced into the House of Lords on 8 March 2011, where he sits on the Labour benches.

[18] Glasman coined the term Blue Labour in 2008, defining it as "a deeply conservative socialism that places family, faith and work at the heart of a new politics of reciprocity, mutuality and solidarity".

[20] In a critical assessment of Glasman's political philosophy, Alan Finlayson asserts that Glasman emphasises ethical social institution rather than moral individualism, criticises commodification and the money economy and seeks to revive the concept of the "common good" at the forefront of British politics.

[22] Glasman himself says that in developing the concept of Blue Labour he was inspired by the Bund, the secular Jewish Socialist Party in Lithuania, Poland and Russia founded in 1897; and the writings of 19th-century German rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch.

[28] However, he accepted the visiting professorship he was offered by Haifa University, telling The Jewish Chronicle: "If people I know say they want to boycott Israel, I say they should start by boycotting me".

[8] At the 2016 Limmud conference, he suggested the Labour Party's antisemitism harked back to Jewish Marxists, who wanted to "liberate Jews" from their Judaism.

[31] Speaking at the Postliberalism Conference in December 2024, Glasman celebrated the victory of Donald Trump, which he said was "world historical", and described it as "a multi-racial, multi-ethnic, interfaith, working-class coalition against progressives – that’s the enormity of what we’re talking about.

[32] But Morgan Jones and David Klemperer, co-editors of the journal Renewal, said that by choosing to align with MAGA, Glasman has sided with forces which threaten social democracy, and which today represent its primary antagonist.