Tuesday 6 June 2023
12:30
David Goodhart
The crucial role of manual workers and caregivers.
A healthy democratic society is one in which all workers are valued and respected, not just the highly educated. Our societies need to spread status more widely, and provide meaning and value for people who cannot, or do not want to, achieve in the classroom and the professions. David outlines how failure to do so results in disaffection and alienation of millions of people and what we need to do to change this.
David is the founding editor of Prospect magazine and one of the most distinctive voices on politics today. His The Road to Somewhere was a Sunday Times bestseller and lauded as the book ‘likely to inform what a post-Brexit Britain might look like’ (Economist). He is currently head of the Demography Unit at the think tank Policy Exchange, and was previously director of the centre-left think tank Demos.
Journalist, commentator, author
David is the founding editor of Prospect magazine and one of the most distinctive voices on politics today. His The Road to Somewhere was a Sunday Times bestseller and lauded as the book ‘likely to inform what a post-Brexit Britain might look like’ (Economist). He is currently head of the Demography Unit at the think tank Policy Exchange, and was previously director of the centre-left think tank Demos.
