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Area of interest: Society, politics and current affairs
Journals/Organisation: Prospect
Email: david.goodhart@demos.co.uk
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Website: http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/tag/david-goodhart | http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/david_goodhart/profile.html
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About: Broadcaster, author, commentator and journalist; founder and editor of Prospect magazine, the London-based current affairs monthly launched in 1995 http://www.demos.co.uk/people/davidgoodhart
Education: Eton, 1969/1974; York University, 1976/79, gaining a first in history and politics
Career: Yorkshire Evening Press, 1979/1982; Financial Times: labour correspondent, city reporter, Lex columnist, Germany correspondent and employment editor, 1982/1994; founded Prospect magazine in 1995, which he edited until 2010, becoming editor-at-large; joined DEMOS as director in 2011
Current position/role: Prospect magazine: Editor-at-large
Other roles/Main role: Director of the think-tank Demos
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Other: Married to Financial Times columnist, Lucy Kellaway
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Books & Debate:
Eddie Shah and the Newspaper Revolution (with Patrick Wintour)(Coronet, 1986)
Making the City Work (with Charles Grant)(Fabian pamphlet, 1987)
The Reshaping of the German Social Market (IPPR pamphlet, 1994)
Thinking Allowed, The Best of Prospect Magazine 1995-2005, edited
and with an introduction by David Goodhart (Atlantic Books, 2005)
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- Welcome to the post-liberal majority - Financial Times, 11th May 2012
- Time to end Labour’s Faustian pact with clan elders - Financial Times, 3rd April 2012
- Immigration cap will fit business nicely - Financial Times, 27th March 2011
- Labour can have its own coalition too - A group called Blue Labour want to combine social conservatism with leftist economics - The Independent, 20th March 2011 (see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zlgdl BBC Analysis: Blue Labour)
- They’re wrong – social mobility is not going downhill - Last week’s pessimistic report on class status is founded on questionable data and lazy thinking - The Times, 26th July 2009
- Do we need more people in Europe? - An American's view of immigration offers a bracing counter-argument to the prevailing liberal orthodoxy - The Observer, 17th May 2009
- Think Tank: New ideas for the 21st Century: Privacy or safety: it’s your choice - The liberty lobby conveniently forgets that the state needs our data to protect us - The Times, 12th April 2009
- The baby-boomers finally see sense on immigration - The Guardian, 24th February 2008
- Day one: all in the mind - Brown's bookishness and intellectualism will be an important part of the style of his premiership - The Guardian, 28th June 2007
- A liberal dose of gloom - Ask 100 thinkers to consider the future and what do you get? Utter pessimism - The Guardian, 26th February 2007
- Psyched out - Oliver James's argument that Blairite free-market social democracy is making us all mentally ill just does not stand up to scrutiny - The Guardian, 25th January 2007
- Going their own way - The latest push for Scottish independence comes from an unlikely quarter - the right - The Guardian, 17th November 2006
- God's big comeback - It is predicted that over the next few decades Europe's secular tide will turn, bringing an increase in religious belief to Britain - The Guardian, 20th October 2006
- The wrong dialectic - The Tory embrace of the concept of 'fraternity' ignores the intractable realities of power and class - The Guardian, 4th September 2006
- In defence of Tariq Ramadan - We need the Muslim scholar if a true Euro-Islam is to take root - The Guardian, 26th June 2006
- Progressive nationalism isn't an oxymoron, it's a necessity - New Labour's messages to its cosmopolitan and its working class supporters are alarmingly divergent. But there is a third way - The Guardian, 29th May 2006
- Don't abandon the Human Rights Act. Contest it - The government should fight judicial rulings when it feels they are endangering national security - The Guardian, 22nd May 2006
- Iraq: don't pull out, break up - Iraq's fragmentation cannot be avoided, but it can be managed - The Guardian, 21st April 2006
- Learning to love invisibility - It's time the EU accepted its decisions have little to do with European citizens' everyday lives - The Guardian, 23rd April 2006
- The price of female progress - There is a need for hard-headed evaluation of the cost to society of women's emancipation - The Guardian, 23rd March 2006
- Left without the facts - Recent assaults on New Labour by the grand old lefties Stuart Hall and Richard Sennett lacked any factual basis - The Guardian, 20th March 2006
- It's paranoia, not Islamophobia - Britain has done much to help integrate Muslims. Now they must rise above their grievance culture - The Guardian, 15th July 2005
- Liberals should beware of giving rights to people who hate us - 28th August 2005
- Why the election debate will return us to the Victorian age - The election seems likely to be the first in which economics does not dominate - The Times, 8th January 2005
- It is an honour and privilege to be British. Let’s keep it that way - The Times, 5th April 2004
- Discomfort of strangers - David Goodhart's essay challenging liberals to rethink their attitudes to diversity and the welfare state has provoked a bitter debate among progressive thinkers. Here, for the first time in a national newspaper, we publish it in full - The Guardian, 24th February 2004
- Discomfort of strangers (part two) - David Goodhart's essay challenging liberals to rethink their attitudes to diversity and the welfare state has provoked a bitter debate among progressive thinkers. Here, for the first time in a national newspaper, we publish it in full - The Guardian, 24th February 2004
- Close the door before it's too late - Defensive anti-racists can't be allowed to stifle the debate on the dangers of mass migration - The Guardian, 19th February 2004
- Opening the door - As government confusion continues, David Goodhart and Khalid Koser debate the prospect of immigration from the new eastern EU states - The Guardian, 14th February 2004
- Horns of the liberal dilemma - The tragedy of the Chinese workers in Morecambe and the simmering arguments about freedom of movement in a newly enlarged European Union have focused attention once again on immigration. David Goodhart, one of our leading liberal intellectuals and editor of the progressives' journal, Prospect, offers a penetrating analysis and a radical prescription for one of the most contentious issues facing us - The Guardian, 8th February 2004
- The war has brought us a better world - so far - 31st October 2001
- Liberal ways - I have just been on holiday in Cornwall. To a sensitive member of the liberal elite like myself it is quite shockingly eurosceptic - The Guardian, 22nd August 2001
- Canada, boring and bland? Not any more - The Guardian, 22nd August 2001
- Why the wealth gap just keeps getting wider - The Guardian, 18th July 2001
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- Last hope for the left - The liberal, secular world view may hold sway over western elites, but it is struggling to answer the conservative challenge - Prospect, 19th March 2012
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