The Editors of Anaesthesia acknowledge the EDI problems we face in anaesthesia and medicine as a whole. Without taking action to address these problems, these issues will persist. This newly published position statement is from the Editors of Anaesthesia, including the Editor-in-Chief. For this podcast, the principal authors join Association of Anaesthetists CEO Nicky de Beer to discuss why and how the statement was written as well as its implications for the present and future.