Owen Jones
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Owen Peter Jones (born 8 August 1984) is an English newspaper columnist, political commentator, journalist, and Labour Party activist.
He writes a column for The Guardian and Tribune, and he has contributed to the New Statesman and Tribune; he also contributed to The Independent.
Early life and education
Jones was born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, and grew up in Stockport, Greater Manchester, and Falkirk briefly. Rob Jones, his father, a local authority worker and union shop steward, and Ruth Aylett, his mother, is a computer science professor (initially at the University of Salford and now Heriot-Watt University). His paternal grandparents were from North Wales, and his father started learning English at the age of six. Eleanor, his twin sister, and Ben and Mark, his two older brothers. He identifies himself as a "fourth-generation socialist"; his grandfather was active with the Communist Party of Great Britain, and his parents were members of the Trotskyist Militant Party.
Jones earned a BA in 2005 and a Masters of Studies in US History at University College, Oxford, where he studied history at University College, Oxford. He worked as a trade union lobbyist and a parliament researcher for Labour Party MP John McDonnell before entering journalism. He was also hired by historian Eric Hobsbawm to index and archive his papers at one time.
Writings and public career
Since moving from The Independent in March 2014, Jones is a weekly columnist for The Guardian. His work has appeared in the New Statesman, Le Monde diplomatique, and several other publications with lower circulations. He writes from a left-wing viewpoint.
Jones' first book, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class, debunking societal stereotypes of the British working class as boorish and anti-social. The book was long-listed for the Guardian First Book Award, and critic Dwight Garner of The New York Times selected it as one of his top ten non-fiction books of 2011.
Jones was named by the Independent on Sunday as one of the top 50 Britons of 2011 for the way in which his book raised the profile of class-based problems. Jones and Hugo Rifkind, a newspaper journalist from The Times, were named Journalist of the Year at the Stonewall Awards in November 2012. In September 2014, Jones' second book, The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It, was published.
Jones was ranked 7th in the Daily Telegraph's 2013 list of Britain's Most Influential Left-wingers. Jones donated half of the £3,000 reward to finance Lisa Forbes' campaign and the other half to Disabled People Against Cuts in February 2013, when Jones was named Young Writer of the Year at the Political Book Award.
Jones said in an interview with The Student Journals that some have accused him of using politics only to raise his own image and that being seen as a "lefty rent-a-gob" may hurt him.
Jones spoke at a press conference on April 26th, 2013 to start the People's Assembly Against Austerity, as well as regional public meetings in the lead-up to a national meeting in Central Hall Westminster on June 22nd 2013. He spoke at Huw Wheldon Memorial Lecture in November 2013, which was utterly repulsive: How Television Portrays the Working Class.
Jones lauded Hugo Chavez's leadership of the Venezuelan economy in 2013 while criticizing Venezuela as a tyrant. In 2014, he reaffirmed his belief in Venezuela's democracy. Jones was chastised for his support for Venezuela's government as the economic crisis and unrest in Venezuela erupted.
Jones is a republican.
Jones launched The Owen Jones Show, a weekly web series on which he interviews guests from both political parties in December 2020. Every Sunday, new episodes are added to his YouTube channel. Stewart Lee, Noam Chomsky, Michael Sheen, and Chelsea Manning appeared on The Owen Jones Podcast the following month.
Jones and his companions were assaulted outside a London pub in August. In January 2020, one of the three attackers was found guilty of aggravating assault, with the judge finding that Jones, a gay man, was convicted of assaulting his LGBT identity and left-wing views; the other two perpetrators were found guilty of affray.