In this thoughtful piece for the Guardian's 'Big idea', Professor Bobby Duffy, author of The Generation Divide, shares his views on why pitting generations against each other is a distraction from tackling the inequality that impacts us all. At the end of his piece, he recommends Poles Apart as further reading.
He concludes: "Ironically, the divisions between generations are neither clear nor passionate enough to make a fairer deal inevitable. The task before us is therefore to find another way of bringing that about."