Declaration | Article 1: Right to equality

What impact does inequality have on health and wellbeing, and what should be done about it? Based on international best-seller ‘The Spirit Level’ by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, ‘The Divide' is a soon-to-be-released cinematic documentary that tells the story of seven people striving for a better life in the US and the UK, where the top 0.1% own as much wealth as the bottom 90%. The film is coming to Declaration as a special preview and after it we will hear responses from a panel; chaired by Hannah McGill; including top political journalists Joyce McMillan (the Scotsman) and Alex Massie (the Spectator), plus Professor Kate Pickett, co-author of The Spirit Level and Neil Quinn from the Centre for Health Policy at the University of Strathclyde.