Chris Bullivant

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Back from the brink: The intellectual tide is turning on marriage and civil society
Society
Back from the brink: The intellectual tide is turning on marriage and civil society
Society

DESERET NEWS
Cultural elites seem to be coming to their senses about the importance of family, faith and community.

Society

PODCASTS

SOCIETY

Featured
Back from the brink: The intellectual tide is turning on marriage and civil society
Society
Back from the brink: The intellectual tide is turning on marriage and civil society
Society

DESERET NEWS
Cultural elites seem to be coming to their senses about the importance of family, faith and community.

Society
The local roots of civility
Society
The local roots of civility
Society

THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
Any solution to America’s besetting social problems must begin at the neighborhood level.

Society
How early childhood is the foundation of social capital
Society
How early childhood is the foundation of social capital
Society

EARLY MATTERS PODCAST
Chris Bullivant talks with Dr. Katharine B. Stevens about the role of early childhood in building social capital.

Society
“Rebuilding social capital starts with 0-3s”
Society
“Rebuilding social capital starts with 0-3s”
Society

PUBLIC DISCOURSE
Social capital has been studied for decades now. But one area that deserves more focus from policymakers is the early years.

Society

CULTURE

Published Articles
What I watched on TV this summer
What I watched on TV this summer

THE EMIGRE
An injured Chris Bullivant reviews Silo, Foundation, Mary Poppins, Invasion, Annie, The Batman, Wonder Woman 1984, and Batman.

When the music fades
When the music fades

I had landed from LAX, started temping at BBC Worldwide, when I received an email asking me to interview for a job at Soul Survivor

“The Early Years - Youth Investment”
“The Early Years - Youth Investment”

SOCIAL CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
The Early Years - Youth Investment

“A Civil Society — Celebrating Diversity of Opinion”
“A Civil Society — Celebrating Diversity of Opinion”

SOCIAL CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
A Civil Society - Celebrating Diversity of Opinion

“The Rings of Power”: Not Woke, Just Disordered
“The Rings of Power”: Not Woke, Just Disordered

THE EMIGRE
Three fixes to save Season 2 of The Rings of Power

An America Fading from View - Boomer to Bust
An America Fading from View - Boomer to Bust

THE EMIGRE
Sat in an abandoned mall filled with the National Guard and Boomer nurses was dystopian. But the aggressive activism of the local coffee shop is worse.

Love in the Time of COVID
Love in the Time of COVID

THE EMIGRE
Are the bonds of friendship formed with strangers in Latin America over a language app real or imagined? Chris Bullivant reflects on socializing online through COVID.

Free market education is woefully lacking
Free market education is woefully lacking

FREE MARKET CONSERVATIVES
The fact that it took me 40 years to come across something even half useful after a lifetime of British education means that we are letting our children down

Scrap the TV licence, the BBC should just stick to the national news
Scrap the TV licence, the BBC should just stick to the national news

CITY A.M.
Monolithic TV is over. As a model, it cannot survive and shouldn’t be supported by a tax enforced with the threat of prison.

These are the voyages of the Starship Diversity
These are the voyages of the Starship Diversity

THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
In a world where the only stories that can be told and retold are Harry Potter, Star Wars or Star Trek, Netflix has been in the forefront of generating the most exciting, creative, and daring new TV content.

Social media lifts the veil on our opinions
Social media lifts the veil on our opinions

THE WEEK
The rise of social media has polarised society by herding us into self-reinforcing echo chambers. That’s the conventional wisdom these days, say Chris Bullivant. But it’s not true.

Did we ever listen to alternative viewpoints?
Did we ever listen to alternative viewpoints?

UNHERD
Polarised views, diametrically opposed and vehemently held, have always lived side by side in society. But in the past, we lived largely in blissful ignorance of them.

Benefits Street: if only it were unrepresentative
Benefits Street: if only it were unrepresentative

I WRITE WHAT I LIKE
The resulting exposé is an accurate, empathetic, portrayal of a very regular feature of British life

POWER

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Power
Time to Privatize the Royal Family
Power

THE EMIGRE
The idea of maintaining privilege as a form of duty has all the appearance of a scam. The game, it seems, is well and truly up.

Power
The Planet
Innovation will give the UK a cutting edge over the EU
The Planet

FREE MARKET CONSERVATIVES
But the market for improved agricultural technology is massive. Much of it lies in emerging economies across Africa and South East Asia. Countries like Uganda and Bangladesh are keen for the UK to take a lead in pioneering new technologies.

The Planet
Power
CORBYN-19 The Dystopia We Avoided
Power

FREE MARKET CONSERVATIVES
I emerged from my self-isolation last week to find some groceries, when I stumbled across the queue for Sainsbury’s stretching for two blocks down a central London street. I returned home with nothing.

Power
The Planet
We must resist the siren calls to abandon technology and global free trade
The Planet

FREE MARKET CONSERVATIVES
Civilization has emerged from a primordial brutish soup. Prosperity and technological innovation has afforded the growth of populations and legal rights. Yet it is these very technologies that we now want to reject.

The Planet
Power
If free market and social conservatives find common ground, they could be unstoppable
Power

CONSERVATIVE HOME
Neither public sector reform nor freedom to eat a high salt pot noodle are a big enough vision to appeal to those left behind by London’s prosperity

Power
The Planet
No, buying organic is not the environmentally friendly option
The Planet

CAPX
Organic farming is a smart marketing niche that has seduced many of us in the West who wish to be environmentally conscious.

The Planet
The Planet, Power, Society
The EU is taking a foolish stance on food technology
The Planet, Power, Society

1828UK
Technology has improved many areas of life. Imagine washing laundry the “natural” way. We would be polluting streams by dunking our primitive clothing in rivers and bashing our furs on rocks.

The Planet, Power, Society
Power
How can you protest for democracy, when your cause is to ignore democracy?
Power

BREXIT CENTRAL
Identity politics pushes traditional democratic processes such as elections and political parties aside, opting for protest and campaigns, usually motivated by a need for protection not from the state but from other citizens.

Power
The Planet
Environmentalism is often anti-capitalism in disguise – but it doesn’t have to be
The Planet

1828UK
Groups like Extinction Rebellion are concerned that our future will resemble a post-apocalyptic landscape. What is unclear is whether campaigners think this prediction is something to be avoided or achieved.

The Planet
The Planet
UN-backed eco-activism threatens to turn back the clock on development
The Planet

CAPX
Agroecology is an approach to agriculture that was cooked up in the classroom and moved out to the farm by activists from across academia, NGOs and the organic food industry.

The Planet
Power
Remainers falsely framed the Brexit vote as a choice between economic stability or democratic legitimacy
Power

BREXIT CENTRAL
The referendum was not fought around a choice to ‘Leave’ or ‘Remain’, but rather a choice between the ‘economy’ or ‘democracy’ – at least that’s how the choice has been framed by the ongoing Remain campaign.

Power
Power
Brexit is simply about regaining the freedom to determine our own destiny
Power

BREXIT CENTRAL
Do you remember that sharp intake of breath, the ‘aha’ moment in June 2016, when the BBC’s David Dimbleby, head-dropped, announced the result for the EU referendum, a win for Leave?

Power

THE PLANET

Published Articles
Innovation will give the UK a cutting edge over the EU
The Planet
Innovation will give the UK a cutting edge over the EU
The Planet

FREE MARKET CONSERVATIVES
But the market for improved agricultural technology is massive. Much of it lies in emerging economies across Africa and South East Asia. Countries like Uganda and Bangladesh are keen for the UK to take a lead in pioneering new technologies.

The Planet
We must resist the siren calls to abandon technology and global free trade
The Planet
We must resist the siren calls to abandon technology and global free trade
The Planet

FREE MARKET CONSERVATIVES
Civilization has emerged from a primordial brutish soup. Prosperity and technological innovation has afforded the growth of populations and legal rights. Yet it is these very technologies that we now want to reject.

The Planet
No, buying organic is not the environmentally friendly option
The Planet
No, buying organic is not the environmentally friendly option
The Planet

CAPX
Organic farming is a smart marketing niche that has seduced many of us in the West who wish to be environmentally conscious.

The Planet
The EU is taking a foolish stance on food technology
The Planet, Power, Society
The EU is taking a foolish stance on food technology
The Planet, Power, Society

1828UK
Technology has improved many areas of life. Imagine washing laundry the “natural” way. We would be polluting streams by dunking our primitive clothing in rivers and bashing our furs on rocks.

The Planet, Power, Society
Environmentalism is often anti-capitalism in disguise – but it doesn’t have to be
The Planet
Environmentalism is often anti-capitalism in disguise – but it doesn’t have to be
The Planet

1828UK
Groups like Extinction Rebellion are concerned that our future will resemble a post-apocalyptic landscape. What is unclear is whether campaigners think this prediction is something to be avoided or achieved.

The Planet
UN-backed eco-activism threatens to turn back the clock on development
The Planet
UN-backed eco-activism threatens to turn back the clock on development
The Planet

CAPX
Agroecology is an approach to agriculture that was cooked up in the classroom and moved out to the farm by activists from across academia, NGOs and the organic food industry.

The Planet
Development is about more than cash
The Planet
Development is about more than cash
The Planet

CAPX
The Department for International Development (DfID) of the UK government wants to increase direct cash transfers to up to six million people. In the light of the truly shocking Oxfam scandal last week, bypassing charities altogether may prove appetising.

The Planet
The superstition that opposes GM crops is deadly for the world’s hungry
The Planet
The superstition that opposes GM crops is deadly for the world’s hungry
The Planet

UNHERD
There are only 32 harvests left before the world’s population hits 10 billion in 2050. Between then and now, farmers around the world need to increase production by 70%.

The Planet
After refugees arrive, the hard work begins
The Planet
After refugees arrive, the hard work begins
The Planet

UNHERD
This month, an 18-year-old Iraqi refugee, who had been living in the UK for three years, took a homemade bomb onto the London Underground.

The Planet
 

“Chris Bullivant is a highly original thinker whose writing deserves to be read widely.”

-Josh Gilder, Speechwriter to President Ronald Reagan

 

  • Social Capital Campaign

    Working with scholars, think tanks, foundations and non-profit leaders across the United States, a campaign to promote social capital and the institutions that create it to opinion and policy leaders in Washington D.C.

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  • Unherd

    Establishing, with founding Editor Tim Montgomerie, a new online journalism platform in London, England. Designed to challenge groupthink in the media and give access to unheard voices for the well-informed reader.

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  • Centre for Social Justice

    Working with Rt. Hon. Iain Duncan Smith M.P., and Executive Directors, to build a think tank that provided incoming Prime Minister Rt. Hon. David Cameron M.P. with a complete welfare and poverty platform. Universal Credit and other policies implemented.

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  • Clients

    Working with private sector and nonprofit clients in London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, New York, and Washington D.C., including a Top 4 U.S. banking institution and a national U.S. nonprofit serving children in foster care.

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“Chris has impressed me with a sharpness and knowledge on key issues at the intersection of government, civil society and human need.”

-Jedd Medefind, President, The Christian Alliance for Orphans; former Acting Director, The White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives

 

Education

 

M.Sc. Political Sociology

London School of Economics, 2006-2008

B.A. Politics

University of London, 1995-1998