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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.

Owen Jones: The hypocrisy of the Great Powers is on display again in Ukraine

We should look in the mirror before condemning Russian expansionism

Thatcher as she appeared on Spitting Image

Owen Jones: Give us Spitting Image back!

Now we're living in a satirical deficit - and politicians are getting off the hook

The Venezuelan people have taken to the streets in huge numbers against a human rights-abusing regime

Owen Jones: Socialism’s critics look at Venezuela and say, ‘We told you so’. But they are wrong

The democratic credentials of the post-Chavez government are being maligned

A new phenomenon of self-unemployment needs investigation

Owen Jones: The reality behind the job stats

A new phenomenon of self-unemployment needs investigation

This all-too silent pandemic urgently needs to be addressed

Owen Jones: The drug we ignore that kills thousands

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

Channel 4’s controversial ‘Benefits Street’ highlights a need for ‘regular reviews of standards’

Owen Jones: My latest battle to stop the demonising of people on benefits

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

Labour is savaged for being funded by the biggest democratic movement

Owen Jones: Beware the Ukip beast of the North

There is a chasm between Ukip leaders and their voters

Danny Alexander, the Liberal Democrat Chief Treasury Secretary,  has written to Alex Salmond, the First Minister of Scotland (pictured), to warn him about an average £1,000 rise in income tax per person

Owen Jones: What a fairer Scotland would look like

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?

I've got a few other riot-suppressing tactics they might try first

Day In a Page

Brazil's sex trade: How the country's one million prostitutes are preparing for the World Cup

Brazil's sex trade

How the country's one million prostitutes are preparing for the World Cup
No Tobacco Day: How to help the world stop smoking

No Tobacco Day

How to help the world stop smoking
Move over, men of the wine world, and make way for the sommelière

Make way for the sommelière

More women are taking on the traditionally male-dominated role of wine waiter, and Britain leads the field
What does the skyrocketing price of property in the capital mean for society?

What does the skyrocketing price of property in the capital mean for society?

London's multimillion-pound buy-to-leave ‘assets’ threaten to plunge swathes of the capital into darkness
Laverne Cox: ‘We live in a binary world: it can change’

‘We live in a binary world: it can change’

Laverne Cox talks ‘Orange is the New Black’ and representing trans women on screen
Facing up to rape: Victim speaks out about the 'faceless' crime

Facing up to rape

Victim speaks out about the 'faceless' crime
Sara Cox takes on Pitbull

Sara Cox takes on Pitbull

He ‘makes my soul weep with the way he sings about women’
Bad girls gone good

Bad girls gone good

Angelina Jolie brings your childhood nightmare to life with Maleficent
Totally rubbish: a nation of wasters?

Totally rubbish

Britain risks turning into a nation of wasters
Up close with a superstar

Up close with a superstar

No dancer leaps quite like Natalia Osipova
Independent on Sunday's Happy List 2014 (NOT the Rich List): The full list of people who make life better for others

The Happy List 2014

All hail the people who make life better for others
A cardinal error? Maronite Patriarch of Antioch to meet the Pope in Israel

The turbulent priest perched on a very rocky mountain

The Maronite Patriarch of Antioch is to meet the Pope in Israel. But is it a cardinal error, asks Robert Fisk
Libya's slow motion coup ends the uprising

Patrick Cockburn: Libya's slow motion coup ends the uprising

The country edges closer to break-up and civil war as foreign powers await their opportunity
If racism means 'threatened by difference', then we are all guilty

If racism means 'threatened by difference', then we are all guilty

Politicians should visit Boston, in Lincolnshire, to really get the message on the Ukip phenomenon
A History of the First World War in 100 Moments: An Italian sniper fails in his duty

A History of the First World War in 100 Moments

An Italian sniper fails in his duty