David Goodhart, Author at Catholic Herald

David Goodhart

From full-time mums to nurses, Britain is failing its carers

December 13, 2018

Politics is hopelessly biased against care and domesticity

David Goodhart: Don’t blame me for May’s election woes

July 13, 2017

Stephen Bush argued in the New Statesman recently, with back-handed flattery, that my analysis of British politics based around diverging value blocs – crudely, liberals versus social conservatives – led to the Tories’ poor election result. Bush claims that by turning her back on David Cameron’s social liberalism, and playing so hard for Brexit voters,

Don’t blame me for May’s election woes

July 13, 2017

A more skilful politician could have appealed to the big new Tory working-class group while also holding enough liberals from the Cameron era

Why I changed my mind about the family

April 20, 2017

One of the strangest things about modern British politics is its unfriendliness towards the conventional family. I only realised this recently, while writing a book about the value divides in British society. The thesis of the book in three sentences is this. A minority group of the highly educated and mobile who value autonomy and

The political elite have undermined the family. It’s time to change course

April 20, 2017

British politics has become strangely hostile to the family. We can't afford to let this continue

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