In this week’s programme I talk to Danny Dorling about inequality, its causes and consequences. Danny is professor of geography at the University of Oxford. In his latest book, Peak Inequality: Britain’s Ticking Time Bomb, he argues that inequality is the political issue of our time.
‘Almost all rich countries in the world are more economically equitable than the UK and the US,’ Danny writes in the introduction. Inequality causes social harm: in mental and physical health, in education, employment, and happiness. And perhaps worst of all, it’s been normalised: many people simply accept that unfair is just how things are. In this interview Danny reflects on what can be done about it, and speculates on what effect Brexit will have on inequality in the UK.