we celebrate the slowdown joining me now via skype from oxford is the author of slow down has a danny dorling danny thanks so much for coming on before we even get to slow down your appraisal of the boris johnson government here in britain and its response to coronavirus well it is a bit unfortunate of course is unlimited to come at any time any point of view a bit and it came as a particularly bad time they become a kind of fairly competent cabinets if a particularly nice couple the fairly competent injuries a man came in she couldn't be there she had with the team and they were the kind of beat when bullies came in he picked the cd if you like and then we markedly in the shuffle done just before the pandemic so we had 2 sets of ministers who had voted like them what they were doing this particular kind of fiscal catastrophe and who ended up in charge who was the chancellor who will sectors they were how they knew about their mates will be noticed well we invite all of the cabinet ministers on the program i don't think they'll turn up they don't turn up on mainstream media programs half the

we can talk to danny dorling now, professor of geography at oxford university and author of many bookse into the country because it strikes me as the country because it strikes me as the slightly unfair thing about this is it is those who were travelling around the world, the more affluent members of our society, who caught it and transferred it with yellow yes, when the virus came into britain, we looked at the deprivation then and it was the opposite to now. there were far fewer cases, of course, but it was some of the most affluent areas of britain, areas where people are more likely to have gone skiing in italy, for instance, which had the higher rates and cases like in chelsea in london. however, as the virus has spread, it has spread into the densest city areas, particularly in london and it moves to london and affects the poorer areas. the same in the west midlands, the same in birmingham. people are much more crowded in these poorer parts of our cities and often in worse health overall. data this has been the case for yea rs overall. data this has been the case for years and ye