Hello and this is the show for you.

I'm Francis Foster.

I'm Constantine Kisson.

And this is the show for you.

If you're bored of people arguing on the internet over subjects they know nothing about.

At trigonometry we don't pretend to be the experts, we ask the experts.

Our fantastic expert guest this week is a journalist think tanker and the author of the road to somewhere.

David Goodhart, welcome to Trigonometry.

Thank you.

It's good to have you here.

Good to be here.

Thank you for coming.

The question we always like to ask at the beginning is how are you where you are, what's been your journey through life.

Have there been any kind of things in your life that have

informed the work that you do and the views that you now hold? Yes I mean my entire life

I guess has helped to inform the views I have. I came from a very privileged

background. My father was a conservative MP. I went to a very grand public

school. A combination of those two things meant, you know, growing up in the, you know, in the kind

of 70s that inevitably I became a leftist, and at university was really pretty radical so I think I kind of understand some of the

kind of mentality of the attractions indeed of the kind of holistic worldview of kind of Islamism or

Marxism or whatever. Indeed I found being a Marxist for a few years in my late teens

early 20s was enormously intellectually productive in some ways because of the

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