Peak Injustice

Introduction - Britain's inequality crisis





Section 1: The politics of hope


The inequality crisis: how did you not see me?


1.1 On Jeremy Corbyn


1.2 Would you let Boris Johnson drive your daughter home?


1.3 The curve of inequality and the Brexit Way


1.4 So, how did we end up with this government?


1.5 Osborne, Johnson and Starmer: let them eat growth?


1.6 A tale of three elections: Sweden, Italy and England


1.7 What the UK in 1922 and in 2017 had in common


1.8 Are things about to get better?





Section 2: Poverty, destitution and happiness


Anxiety, satisfaction, worth and happiness


2.1 Who spends more wisely: individuals or government?


2.2 Dying quietly: English suburbs and the stiff upper lip


2.3 The wreckers who tore British society apart


2.4 Austerity, not influenza, caused the UK's health to deteriorate


2.5 The income shock of 2020: a jolt in the fall after peak inequality


2.6 The roundabout: class hate in England


2.7 Why Finland is still the happiest country in the world


2.8 Most people in the UK now share Robert Owen's views


2.9 A majority of people think the government does too little


2.10 The crises combine: austerity, the cost of living, jobs and pay





Section 3: Levelling across housing


We will finish what we started


3.1 When everyone you know buys art


3.2 Short cuts on homelessness


3.3 How to solve the housing crisis


3.4 Public spending in the UK and Europe


3.5 House prices: welcoming a crash


3.6 A letter from Helsinki


3.7 Liz Truss and autumn 2022


3.8 Labour and levelling up





Section 4: Eugenics and the fear of too many people


Eugenics and population control


4.1 The blank slate


4.2 When racism stopped being normal


4.3 About our schools


4.4 The birth of Baby Eight Billion


4.5 History repeating





Section 5: How austerity undermined our public health


Counting the cost of austerity


5.1 How austerity caused the NHS crisis


5.2 The Brexit vote, declining health and immigration


5.3 How many more will be dead by Christmas?


5.4 The decimation of the NHS


5.5 Falling down the global ranks


5.6 Our museum future





Section 6: Hope, the elite and change


Yesterday, tomorrow - and hope


6.1 What would it take to persuade Rishi Sunak to join the Patriotic Millionaires?


6.2 Kindness: rigour for British Geographers


6.3 The stones of the University of Oxford


6.4 Economics and compassion


6.5 Finland: how much better life can be


6.6 Dyslexia and the problem with pride





Conclusion: What ten things can we do?