David Goodhart

David Goodhart is a British journalist, commentator, author and director of the think thank Demos. He is the founder and former editor of the Prospect magazine.

Career

Goodhart was a correspondent for the Financial Times for 12 years, in part of the period he was stationed in Germany.

He founded the Prospect, a British current affairs magazine in 1995 and was the editor until 2010, when he became editor-at-large.

In December, 2011, David Goodhart started as director of the London based think tank Demos.

Goodhart has produced several radio documentaries for the BBC on subjects ranging from the rise of Blue Labour to mass immigration. He has frequently written for The Guardian, The Independent and The Times.

In April, 2013, he published the book The British Dream: Successes and Failures of Post-war Immigration where he argues that high immigration can undermine national solidarity and be a threat to social democratic ideals about a welfare state. He advocates that immigration to the United Kingdom should be reduced and more emphasis put on integrating immigrants.

Personal

He is married to Financial Times journalist Lucy Kellaway; they have four children.

Publications

• The British Dream: Successes and Failures of Post-war Immigration (2013). Atlantic Books. ISBN 9781843548058