Danny Dorling on the UK election and hope for change

Transforming Society podcast

Danny Dorling and Jess Miles talk about his concept of peak injustice - that injustice and inequality are now so bad in the UK that it might just be that they can't get worse.

In advance of 4 July, they talk about Keir Starmer and what the Labour party may offer, why higher taxes aren't a burden, how fear wrecks societies and the data that gives us hope that getting down from the top of the mountain of injustice might be possible.

Danny Dorling is Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Peter’s College. He is a patron of RoadPeace, Comprehensive Future and Heeley City Farm. He has published over 50 books, including the best-selling Peak Inequality: Britain’s Ticking Timebomb (2018) and Injustice: Why Social Inequality Still Persists (2014). Follow him on Twitter: @dannydorling.

Find out more about the book: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/peak-injustice

The full transcript of the podcast is available here: https://www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2024/06/21/podcast-danny-dorling-on-the-uk-election-and-hope-for-change/

Timestamps:

01:39 - What are the signs things might be getting less unequal?

5:33 - How far are the parties going to tackle injustice, and are there any standout policies?

9:59 - Why are people afraid of tax rises?

13:01 - What are individuals going to have to accept in order to move away from this peak injustice?

20:57 - When discussing what the next government have to do to move us away from peak injustice you said they have to want to do it. What did you mean by that?

28:40 - What is the important role the left have to play in this election?

33:09 - What do you want people, including the new government, to take from your book, 'Peak Injustice'?

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