Dear Classmates. Welcome back to the show.
David Goodhart is a journalist, writer and think-tanker. He worked for the Financial Times for 12 years before setting up Prospect magazine in 1995. He has been involved with issues relating to equality and discrimination for 20 years.
In 2013 he published a book on race and immigration, 'The British Dream' (runner up for the Orwell prize). When director of the Demos think tank he set up the Integration Hub website as a focus for data and debate about ethnic minority integration and segregation.
In his current role as Head of the Demography Unit at the Policy Exchange think tank he has contributed to most of the policy debates on race including cowriting a report, 'Bittersweet Success', on ethnic minority people in elite jobs. His two most recent books are 'The Road to Somewhere: The New Tribes Shaping British Politics' (2017) and 'Head, Hands, Heart: The Struggle for Dignity and Stats in the 21st Century' (2020).
In this episode, David and I talk about so much, including the motivations of the political tribes, the anywheres and the somewheres, and how they have influenced British politics, the disappointment in how the anywheres have used their power as the dominant class, whether immigration is as economically beneficial as it is frequently claimed to be, the impact of mass immigration on internal migration, how the mass education sector has damaged social cohesion, the impact of the welfare state on productivity, whether the UK has found itself in a doom loop, and how the role and status of the family has been diminished in recent decades and how we might raise its status once more.
David is one of Britain's prized political commentators for a reason, he has an almost encyclopaedic grasp research literature, and he really has his finger on the pulse on the currents that have swept this country's policies along in recent decades.
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#28 David Goodhart - Post-Brexit & Trump: The Anywhere Class Still Doesn't Understand