Peak Injustice: has the UK turned a corner at last? Danny Dorling in Bristol

Has Britain finally reached peak injustice? And could it be the elites who will help turn things around, as they did a century ago? Danny Dorling discusses his new book, Peak Injustice: Solving Britain’s Inequality Crisis (Policy Press) in a public event in Bristol.

“I wonder if what I am doing [with this book] is wishful thinking…,” acknowledges geographer, author and inequalities expert Professor Dorling at the start of this talk.

“I’ve spent much of my academic life writing about the situation getting worse in various ways,” he adds. “That was very tricky under New Labour because there was an ethos that everything was getting better – ‘Things can only get better’, they said in 1997 – and there was a time when there was huge hope and change. And then come 2010, you suddenly have austerity being imposed on people year after year, causing more deaths than the Covid pandemic. But the reason I called this book Peak Injustice is that I get the sense in the last couple of years that nobody is any longer defending inequality. You no longer get a single person saying, this is good for productivity, there’s a trickle-down of wealth; and yes it’s tough, but…”

This is an audio-only recording of a talk given at Design West in Bristol on Tuesday 22 October.

Dr Zara Nanu, Bristol-based tech entrepreneur and pay gap expert, introduced Professor Dorling, and his talk was followed by a question and answer session with the audience.

The event was organised by Andrew Lynch of Just About Books and supported by Distinctive Communications.

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