{"id":6600,"date":"2018-06-06T06:24:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T06:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/?p=6600"},"modified":"2022-09-19T21:29:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T21:29:26","slug":"peak-inequality-danny-dorling-and-faiza-shaheen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/?p=6600","title":{"rendered":"Peak Inequality: Danny Dorling and Faiza Shaheen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/books\/peakinequality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peak Inequality: Britain\u2019s Ticking Time Bomb<\/a><\/em> Danny Dorling presents the evidence that in 2018 the growth in UK income inequality may have finally peaked.<!--more--> Inequality began growing in the 1970s and the damaging repercussions may continue long after the peak is passed. There will be speculation and a little futurology.<\/p>\n<p>Danny will be in conversation with Faiza Shaheen, director of the think tank CLASS and former Head of Inequality and Sustainable Development at Save the Children UK. Faiza recently explained that the rich, like viruses, also develop resistance, in their case to redistributive taxes. They use their wealth and power to carve out tax loopholes and lower tax rates. Their fortunes ballon. Inequality grows. In which case why should inequality peak now?<\/p>\n<p>London Review Bookshop &#8211; Tickets available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk\/events\/2018\/7\/peak-inequality-danny-dorling-and-faiza-shaheen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>: for 7pm Wednesday July 11th 2018<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6577\" style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6577\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6577\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/CoverOfPeakInequality-654x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/CoverOfPeakInequality-654x1024.jpg 654w, https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/CoverOfPeakInequality-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/CoverOfPeakInequality-768x1202.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/CoverOfPeakInequality.jpg 1630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6577\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peak Inequality: Britain&#8217;s Ticking Time Bomb<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Peak Inequality: Britain\u2019s Ticking Time Bomb Danny Dorling presents the evidence that in 2018 the growth in UK income inequality may have finally peaked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9225,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6600\/revisions\/9225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}