Owen Jones
Owen Jones is a columnist for The Independent. He was born in Sheffield and grew up in Stockport. After graduating, he worked as a trade union and parliamentary researcher. His first book, 'Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class', was published in June 2011. He is currently working on his second book, on the British Establishment, for Penguin.
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Owen Jones: The hypocrisy of the Great Powers is on display again in Ukraine
05 March 2014 07:23 PM
We should look in the mirror before condemning Russian expansionism
Owen Jones: Give us Spitting Image back!
27 February 2014 12:01 AM
Now we're living in a satirical deficit - and politicians are getting off the hook
Owen Jones: Socialism’s critics look at Venezuela and say, ‘We told you so’. But they are wrong
26 February 2014 05:28 PM
The democratic credentials of the post-Chavez government are being maligned
Owen Jones: The reality behind the job stats
19 February 2014 06:39 PM
A new phenomenon of self-unemployment needs investigation
Owen Jones: The drug we ignore that kills thousands
19 February 2014 06:19 PM
This all-too silent pandemic urgently needs to be addressed, and that means dealing with the lack of funding for dealing with alcohol compared with other drugs
Owen Jones: My latest battle to stop the demonising of people on benefits
18 February 2014 01:23 PM
Another Monday, another rowdy TV ‘discussion’ in the wake of Benefits Street
Owen Jones: Tristram Hunt was bang out of order to cross a picket line…and his party is guilty of not standing up for workers’ rights
12 February 2014 05:47 PM
Labour is savaged for being funded by the biggest democratic movement
Owen Jones: Beware the Ukip beast of the North
12 February 2014 05:24 PM
There is a chasm between Ukip leaders and their voters
Owen Jones: What a fairer Scotland would look like
05 February 2014 07:06 PM
Despite its progressive rhetoric, the SNP would hand big business a mighty cheque
Owen Jones: Would you really trust a Met officer to wield a water cannon?
05 February 2014 06:27 PM
I've got a few other riot-suppressing tactics they might try first
- 1 1,500,000 public sector workers prepare to strike
- 2 Apostasy woman in Sudan sentenced to death forced to give birth 'with her legs chained'
- 3 Grace Dent on TV: Watching Coronation Street is murder – and not just for the characters
- 4 Meriam Ibrahim: Sudanese woman sentenced to hang will be freed ‘in a few days’
- 5 Elliot Rodger: Joe the Plumber tells parents of victims 'your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights'
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