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He founded the magazine Prospect in the late 1990s and later worked with the think tank Demos and the centre-right Policy Exchange, positioning himself as a heterodox figure who began on the centre-left but increasingly challenged progressive orthodoxies. His central intellectual project has been to articulate the anxieties of those who feel that rapid social and economic change, particularly around immigration and diversity, has proceeded without sufficient democratic consent.\n\nGoodhart first gained wide attention with an argument, developed in the early 2000s, suggesting a tension between ethnic diversity and the social solidarity that underpins generous welfare states—a claim that provoked considerable controversy and accusations that he was legitimising anti-immigration sentiment. He developed these themes into his best-known contribution: the distinction between \"Anywheres\" and \"Somewheres.\" Anywheres, in his account, are mobile, educated, and comfortable with change, deriving identity from achievement and portable credentials, while Somewheres are more rooted in place, community, and ascribed identity, and feel unsettled by rapid liberalisation. He argued that political and cultural elites drawn overwhelmingly from the Anywhere minority had lost touch with the Somewhere majority, helping to explain the Brexit vote and the broader surge of populism.\n\nGoodhart's thought sits within a communitarian and post-liberal tradition that questions the assumption that openness, mobility, and diversity are always unambiguous goods. He has stressed the moral and practical importance of national community, shared obligation, and social cohesion, arguing that a functioning democracy requires attention to belonging as well as individual freedom. In later work he turned to questions of status and esteem in the labour market, contending that societies have over-valued cognitive and academic achievement while devaluing manual, caring, and practical work—a critique of what he sees as an unbalanced meritocracy.\n\nHis ideas have been widely cited in debates about immigration, populism, and the realignment of Western politics, though critics argue that his categories oversimplify social identities and risk softening exclusionary attitudes. Whether embraced or contested, Goodhart's vocabulary has entered mainstream political discussion, offering a framework many commentators use to describe the cultural divides underlying contemporary electoral politics.",false,5,true,"2026-05-04T20:40:51.368746+00:00","2026-07-09T03:53:21.444101+00:00","'1990s':66C '2000s':143C 'academ':337C 'account':194C 'accus':166C 'achiev':205C,338C 'alway':280C 'anti':172C 'anti-immigr':171C 'anxieti':109C 'anywher':16B,188C,191C,237C 'argu':227C,299C,375C 'argument':138C 'around':121C 'articul':107C 'ascrib':218C 'assumpt':273C 'attent':135C,305C 'attitud':386C 'author':38C 'becom':41C 'began':89C 'belong':57C,307C 'best':182C 'best-known':181C 'brexit':250C 'british':11B,35C 'broader':254C 'care':342C 'categori':378C 'centr':78C,93C 'central':101C 'centre-left':92C 'centre-right':77C 'challeng':97C 'chang':119C,201C 'cite':361C 'claim':160C 'cognit':335C 'cohes':298C 'comfort':199C 'comment':403C 'communitarian':7B,56C,264C 'communiti':216C,293C 'consent':130C 'consider':163C 'contemporari':47C,411C 'contend':328C 'contest':390C 'contribut':184C 'controversi':164C 'cosmopolitan':53C 'credenti':208C 'critic':374C 'critiqu':347C 'cultur':231C,408C 'david':1A,3B,31C 'debat':19B,363C 'demo':74C 'democraci':303C 'democrat':129C 'deriv':202C 'describ':406C 'devalu':340C 'develop':139C,176C 'discuss':398C 'distinct':186C 'divers':124C,149C,278C 'divid':409C 'drawn':233C 'drive':28B 'earli':142C 'econom':118C 'educ':197C 'elector':412C 'elit':232C 'embrac':388C 'enter':395C 'esteem':323C 'ethnic':148C 'exchang':81C 'exclusionari':385C 'explain':248C 'feel':113C,221C 'figur':87C 'first':132C 'found':59C 'framework':17B,401C 'freedom':312C 'function':302C 'gain':133C 'gap':27B 'generous':156C 'good':282C 'goodhart':2A,4B,32C,131C,258C,391C 'help':246C 'heterodox':86C 'idea':357C 'ident':23B,203C,219C,381C 'immigr':21B,122C,173C,365C 'import':290C 'increas':96C 'individu':311C 'influenti':46C 'intellectu':102C 'interpret':48C 'journalist':36C 'known':183C 'labour':326C 'late':65C 'later':68C,314C 'left':94C 'legitimis':170C 'liber':10B,54C,268C 'liberalis':225C 'lost':240C 'magazin':61C 'mainstream':396C 'major':245C 'mani':402C 'manual':341C 'market':327C 'meritocraci':355C 'minor':238C 'mobil':196C,276C 'moral':287C 'nation':22B,292C 'oblig':295C 'offer':399C 'one':42C 'open':275C 'orthodoxi':99C 'over-valu':332C 'oversimplifi':379C 'overwhelm':234C 'particular':120C 'place':215C 'polici':80C 'polit':30B,229C,372C,397C,413C 'popul':257C,366C 'populist':29B 'portabl':207C 'posit':82C 'post':9B,267C 'post-liber':8B,266C 'practic':289C,344C 'proceed':126C 'progress':98C 'project':103C 'prospect':62C 'provok':162C 'question':271C,319C 'rapid':115C,224C 'realign':369C 'requir':304C 'reshap':18B 'right':79C 'risk':383C 'root':213C 'see':351C 'sentiment':174C 'share':294C 'sit':261C 'social':116C,152C,297C,380C 'societi':330C 'soften':384C 'solidar':153C 'somewher':14B,190C,210C,244C 'state':158C 'status':321C 'stress':285C 'suffici':128C 'suggest':144C 'surg':255C 'tank':73C 'tension':51C,146C 'theme':178C 'think':72C 'though':373C 'thought':260C 'touch':241C 'tradit':269C 'turn':317C 'unambigu':281C 'unbalanc':354C 'under':410C 'underpin':155C 'unsettl':222C 'use':404C 'valu':26B,334C 'vocabulari':393C 'vote':251C 'vs':15B 'welfar':157C 'well':309C 'western':371C 'whether':387C 'whose':13B 'wide':134C,360C 'within':262C 'without':127C 'work':69C,315C,345C 'writer':12B","writer",[],[],[],"Journalist and author","media-figure",[123,126],{"archetype_slug":41,"strength":124,"description":125},9,"Some people are rooted in particular places and some are mobile and placeless — and that value gap, not economics alone, is what drives populist politics. Goodhart's Somewheres-vs-Anywheres framework names the cultural rootedness your worldview is built to defend.",{"archetype_slug":17,"strength":111,"description":127},"Somewheres against Anywheres split the electorate along a value gap — rootedness set against mobility — and reframed the arguments over immigration and national identity. Goodhart's line gives you the vocabulary for the divide you already feel between placed lives and portable ones.",[]]