David Goodhart | |
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Born |
London, England | 12 September 1956
Nationality | British |
Education | University of York ( BA) |
Occupation(s) | Journalist and editor |
Known for | Founder of Prospect magazine |
Spouse | Lucy Kellaway (separated) |
Children | 4 |
Parent(s) | Valerie Forbes Winant Goodhart Sir Philip Goodhart |
Family | Mayer Lehman (great-great-grandfather) |
David Goodhart (born 12 September 1956) [1] is a British journalist, commentator and author. He is the founder and a former editor of Prospect magazine.
Goodhart is one of seven children born to Valerie Forbes Winant (the niece of John Gilbert Winant) and Conservative MP Sir Philip Goodhart. [2] [3] 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. [4] He has written of being an "old Etonian Marxist" in his late teens and early 20s. [5]
Goodhart was a correspondent for the Financial Times for 12 years; for part of the period he was stationed in Germany. [6] [7] He founded Prospect, a British current affairs magazine in 1995 and was the editor until 2010, when he became editor-at-large. [8] In December 2011, he was appointed Director of the London-based think tank Demos. [9] As of 2017 he is Head of the Demography, Immigration and Integration Unit at the think tank Policy Exchange. [10]
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) [11] and on Blue Labour. [12] He has written of the influence on his thinking of people like Maurice Glasman, who coined the term Blue Labour. [5]
He was one of four new Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) board commissioners appointed in November 2020. [13] [14]
Goodhart first wrote that "sharing and solidarity can conflict with diversity", in an essay "Too diverse?" published by Prospect in February 2004. [15] 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. [16]
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. [17] [18]
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. [19] 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. [19]
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'". [14]
David Goodhart was married to Financial Times journalist Lucy Kellaway; they have four children. [20] The couple separated in 2015. [21]
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David Goodhart | |
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Born |
London, England | 12 September 1956
Nationality | British |
Education | University of York ( BA) |
Occupation(s) | Journalist and editor |
Known for | Founder of Prospect magazine |
Spouse | Lucy Kellaway (separated) |
Children | 4 |
Parent(s) | Valerie Forbes Winant Goodhart Sir Philip Goodhart |
Family | Mayer Lehman (great-great-grandfather) |
David Goodhart (born 12 September 1956) [1] is a British journalist, commentator and author. He is the founder and a former editor of Prospect magazine.
Goodhart is one of seven children born to Valerie Forbes Winant (the niece of John Gilbert Winant) and Conservative MP Sir Philip Goodhart. [2] [3] 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. [4] He has written of being an "old Etonian Marxist" in his late teens and early 20s. [5]
Goodhart was a correspondent for the Financial Times for 12 years; for part of the period he was stationed in Germany. [6] [7] He founded Prospect, a British current affairs magazine in 1995 and was the editor until 2010, when he became editor-at-large. [8] In December 2011, he was appointed Director of the London-based think tank Demos. [9] As of 2017 he is Head of the Demography, Immigration and Integration Unit at the think tank Policy Exchange. [10]
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) [11] and on Blue Labour. [12] He has written of the influence on his thinking of people like Maurice Glasman, who coined the term Blue Labour. [5]
He was one of four new Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) board commissioners appointed in November 2020. [13] [14]
Goodhart first wrote that "sharing and solidarity can conflict with diversity", in an essay "Too diverse?" published by Prospect in February 2004. [15] 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. [16]
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. [17] [18]
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. [19] 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. [19]
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'". [14]
David Goodhart was married to Financial Times journalist Lucy Kellaway; they have four children. [20] The couple separated in 2015. [21]
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