Never call a dead metaphor too soon. As a scholarly term of art, body politic went mainstream at a time when civic equality trumped entrenched power imbalances. Yet its older, figurative meaning may ...

In February, theGuardian published an article by the editor of Prospect magazine, David Goodhart, who questioned whether an ethnically diverse society and a welfare state are any longer compatible.

A very thoughtful piece from the UK writer David Goodhart, on why he believes mass immigration is unwise and destabilizing. He is responding to Kenan Malik’s review of his recent book. Excerpts: To ...

The U.K.'s equalities watchdog has appointed someone who undermines efforts to tackle racism, The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) and the Institute for Race Relations (IRR) say. David Goodhart is a ...

Goodhart makes a strong case for reviving the status of work outside the ‘knowledge economy’, as the age of automation approaches When my old school went from grammar to comprehensive in 1972, the ...

Book review: David Goodhart’s debut, The British Dream. Labour’s fate at the last general election was all but sealed when, a week before the polls, Rochdale pensioner Gillian Duffy asked Gordon Brown ...

I would go further. This new, points-based labour migration policy represents the re-establishment of a national social contract with the British workforce – a contract that was ripped up when we ...

An excerpt from David Goodhart’s new book on populism and the emergence of new political categories. Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from the first chapter of The Road to Somewhere: The ...

David Goodhart is one of the best-known commentators on British politics. In 1995, after a career at the Financial Times, he founded the journal Prospect, which became a key player in the debate over ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The following is the first part of a three-part comment. In February, the British newspaper The Guardian published a banal and thoroughly reactionary article by the editor of Prospect magazine, David ...

No, Mr. President, Section 122 Tariffs Won’t Work Either From Trump’s Warp Speed to the FDA’s Warp Stall Audio By Carbonatix The pandemic exposes the error of ...