Spreading the equality message

John Bell explains how his Meeting started tackling the issue

by John Bell 22nd October 2009

Earlier in the year the Friend carried a review of an important new book The Spirit Level: Why equal societies almost always do better. The authors Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett are professional academics who present their research in a very serious way. Then in March there was an offer in the Friend from Martin Wilkinson, Richard’s brother and a much-respected Quaker, to come and talk to Meetings on the research behind the book and to seek views on the insights it contained.