Thursday 23 April 2026

12:30

Paul Johnson

Challenging Inequalities: How We Got Stuck and Where We Go Next

The need to address inequality has never been more urgent. Paul offers a road map for how we have arrived at such a perilous spot—and how we can change course to achieve better outcomes for all.

Paul Johnson
Provost of Queen's College, Oxford

Paul is Provost of the Queen’s College, University of Oxford, and former director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). He is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Follow the Money.

“Startlingly uncomfortable facts about Britain’s solidifying inequality make this succinct yet encyclopaedic account of widening gaps compulsory reading.... As compelling as it is alarming.”

Polly Toynbee, author of The Only Way Is Up: How to Take Britain from Austerity to Prosperity
Paul Johnson

Provost of Queen's College, Oxford

Paul is Provost of the Queen’s College, University of Oxford, and former director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). He is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Follow the Money.