David Goodhart
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:EngvarB Template:Infobox person David Goodhart (born 12 September 1956)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> is a British journalist, commentator and author. He is the founder and a former editor of Prospect magazine.
Early life and educationEdit
Goodhart is one of seven children born to Valerie Forbes Winant (the niece of John Gilbert Winant) and Conservative MP Sir Philip Goodhart.<ref name=TelegraphObit>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>"Valerie Forbes Winant died peacefully on April 1st aged 88" Template:Webarchive, The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 30 September 2015</ref> He is a great-great-grandson of Mayer Lehman, co-founder of Lehman Brothers. He was educated at Eton College, and the University of York, where he gained a degree in history and politics.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He has written of being an "old Etonian Marxist" in his late teens and early 20s.<ref name="Goodhart2017">Template:Cite news</ref>
CareerEdit
Goodhart was a correspondent for the Financial Times for 12 years; for part of the period he was stationed in Germany.<ref>David Goodhart Template:Webarchive ideasfestival.co.uk (Bristol Festival of Ideas). Retrieved 1 April 2013</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He founded Prospect, a British current affairs magazine in 1995 and was the editor until 2010, when he became editor-at-large.<ref>Dowell, Ben (7 June 2010) "David Goodhart to step down as Prospect editor", The Guardian.</ref> In December 2011, he was appointed Director of the London-based think tank Demos.<ref>Demos, Press release: David Goodhart joins Demos as Director Template:Webarchive demos.co.uk (homesite). Retrieved 1 April 2013</ref> As of 2017 he is Head of the Demography, Immigration and Integration Unit at the think tank Policy Exchange.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
He has written for The Guardian, The Independent and The Times. He has presented documentaries for BBC Radio 4's Analysis programme on immigration (in 2010)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and on Blue Labour.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He has written of the influence on his thinking of people like Maurice Glasman, who coined the term Blue Labour.<ref name="Goodhart2017"/>
He was one of four new Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) board commissioners appointed in November 2020.<ref name="SLN">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Hooper">Template:Cite news</ref>
Political viewsEdit
Goodhart first wrote that "sharing and solidarity can conflict with diversity", in an essay "Too diverse?" published by Prospect in February 2004.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Trevor Phillips, then chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, described such arguments as being those of "liberal Powellites", after the Conservative politician Enoch Powell.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
In the book The British Dream: Successes and Failures of Post-war Immigration (2013), Goodhart argues that high immigration can undermine national solidarity and be a threat to social democratic ideals about a welfare state. He advocates that immigration to the United Kingdom should be reduced and more emphasis put on integrating immigrants.<ref>Sexton, David, "Immigration: why the public is right", London Evening Standard, 28 March 2013</ref><ref>Goodhart, Goodhart (27 March 2013), Why the left is wrong about immigration, The Guardian3.</ref>
The Road to Somewhere was published in 2017. A fault line in Britain existed, he suggested, between "Somewheres", those people firmly connected to a specific community which consists of about half the population, "Inbetweeners", and "Anywheres", those usually living in cities, who are socially liberal and well educated, the latter being only a minority of about 20% to 25% of the total population, but who in fact had "over-ruled" the attitudes of the majority.<ref name="Freedland">Template:Cite news</ref> Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian believed it could be argued New Labour had actually often had the Somewheres in mind in policies espousing an "Asbo culture" and the "prison works" attitude which they continued from Michael Howard's earlier period as Home Secretary.<ref name="Freedland"/>
Writing for The Daily Telegraph in 2018, Goodhart described the Windrush scandal as "an error of over-zealous control" which "must not lead to a radical watering-down of the so-called 'hostile environment'".<ref name="Hooper" />
Personal lifeEdit
David Goodhart was married to Financial Times journalist Lucy Kellaway; they have four children.<ref name="FT_20100907">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The couple separated in 2015.<ref name="FT_20151025">Template:Cite news</ref>
PublicationsEdit
- The British Dream: Successes and Failures of Post-war Immigration (2013). Atlantic Books. Template:ISBN
- The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics (2017). C. Hurst & Co. Template:ISBN
- Head Hand Heart: The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st Century (2020) Allen Lane. Template:ISBN