
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 (Atlantic), 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 (Hurst), about the value divides in western societies, which was a Sunday Times best-seller. In 2020 he published Head Hand Heart: The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st Century (Penguin).

Related Posts & Publications


Welcome for government’s ethnic outcome audit — but a warning too
by David Goodhart | Oct 10, 2017
We welcome the government’s interest in keeping a close watch on ethnic outcomes in the UK—it is what we have been doing for the past three years at the Integration Hub, now based at Policy Exchange. But it is important that their new initiative, the Race Disparity...
Accentuating the negative on race
by David Goodhart | Oct 2, 2017
There has been a sharp decline in hard racist attitudes in Britain in the past few years with only one per cent of the population, and those mainly over 50, admitting to being “very prejudiced”. And there has been a continuing steady decline in the number of white...
Indiscriminate on Discrimination
by David Goodhart | Sep 12, 2017
Last week saw the publication of two Government commissioned reviews, both related to the life chances of minorities. The Lammy Review, published on Friday and led by David Lammy MP, investigated the treatment of and outcomes for ethnic minorities in the criminal...
One and a half cheers for the Integration APPG
by David Goodhart | Aug 28, 2017
There is a lot to welcome in this latest report on integration from the APPG on the issue but too much is buried under a mound of tendentious political rhetoric about reframing the supposedly “poisonous” contemporary debate about immigration. This is a shame. The...Support Us
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