Hashi Mohamed

Barrister and broadcaster Hashi Mohamed, who was raised on benefits and attended some of the worst schools in the country, looks at inequality and lack of social mobility in Britain and how to overcome it.

Mohamed describes a Britain where the best indicator of the job you will do is the job of your parents, where power and privilege are concentrated in the hands of those privately educated, and where you have to send out twice as many job applications if your name sounds black or Asian. Mohamed says the statistics reveal the depth of the problem, but he also uncovers failures of imagination, education and confidence that compound it.

Mohamed arrived in Britain as a child refugee and attended some of the worst performing schools in London. He did postgraduate studies at Oxford and now works as a barrister in London, presented Adventures in Social Mobility and Macpherson: What Happened Next on BBC Radio 4 and writes for The Guardian, The Times and Prospect.