David Goodhart

David Goodhart ( born 1956 ) is a British journalist.

Life

Goodhart comes from an Ascended in the British Upper Middle Class Jewish immigrant family. His grandfather, Arthur Lehman Goodhart (1891-1978) was professor of law at Oxford, his father Sir Philip Goodhart (* 1925) was a member of the Conservative Party, under his uncles are the Upper House Member Baron William Goodhart and economics professor Charles Goodhart (* 1936). Goodhart is with journalist Lucy Kellaway ( born 1959 ) married and lives in Highbury, London, they have four children.

Goodhart visited befitting Eton College and studied politics at York University. His journalistic career began in 1979 at the Yorkshire Evening Post. In 1982 he moved for twelve years as a journalist for the Financial Times in the departments business and politics and was at the time of German reunification Germany her correspondent. In 1995 he founded his own political magazine Prospect, for which he acts only as an editor since 2010. Goodhart also worked for the BBC and wrote for The Guardian, The Independent and The Times. He also published at the Fabian Society and the Institute for Public Policy Research. In 2011 he became director of the think tank Demos.

Goodhart's 2013 published book The British Dream solved before appearance of controversy, as it touches on issues such as multiculturalism, immigration and national identity. He was then for the first time not invited after twelve years of participation to literary festival in Hay-on- Wye.

Writings (selection )

  • The British Dream: Successes and Failures of post -war immigration. London: Atlantic Books, 2013 ISBN 9781843548058
  • Britain's glue: the case for liberal nationalism, in Anthony Giddens (ed.): The new egalitarianism. Cambridge: Polity Press 2005
  • Thinking allowed: the best of Prospect, 1995-2005. London: Atlantic Books, 2005
  • Solutions to unemployment in the age of globalization. Enstone: Ditchley Foundation, 1998
  • The reshaping of the German social market. London: Institute for Public Policy Research, 1994
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