
David Goodhart
Head of Demography, Immigration & Integration
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David Goodhart is Head of Policy Exchange’s Demography, Immigration, and Integration Unit, and Director of the Integration Hub website. He is a former Director of Demos, and former Editor of Prospect magazine, which he founded in 1995. David is a prominent figure in public debate in the UK, as a well-known broadcaster, author, commentator, and journalist. He has presented several BBC Radio 4 Analysis programmes. Before Prospect, he was a correspondent for the Financial Times, including a stint in Germany during the unification period. In 2013, he published The British Dream, a book about post-war multiculturalism, national identity, and immigration. It was runner up for the Orwell Book Prize in 2014. In 2017 he published The Road to Somewhere: The new tribes shaping British politics, about the value divides in western societies, which was a Sunday Times best-seller.

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Why universities had to be challenged
by David Goodhart | Jul 14, 2020
Related Content Getting 50% of 18-year-olds into FE led to low productivity, poor social mobility and cultural division It is now official. The helter skelter expansion of UK higher education ushered in 21 years ago by Tony Blair’s pledge to send half of school...
Facts vs feelings in the BLM debate
by David Goodhart | Jun 25, 2020
Related Content Despite activist anger, the statistics tell a broadly positive story about black middle-class advancement George Floyd’s appalling murder and the global outrage it triggered has evolved into a broader protest about black disadvantage and racism in...
The Training We Need Now
by David Goodhart | Jun 7, 2020
Related Content Essays on technical training, lifelong learning and apprenticeships Vocational education and training, especially for those not heading to university, has been one of the biggest public policy failures of the last 25 years. The Covid-19 economic...
A training opportunity in the crisis
by David Goodhart | May 10, 2020
Related Content How the Covid-19 response can help sort out Britain’s training mess The coronavirus crisis underlines the need for an education and training system that is better aligned with the economic and social needs of the UK, says David Goodhart in this...Support Us
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