My dad saw himself as part of a historic struggle for human liberation: he met my mum canvassing for the Labour party in a snowstorm in Tooting, he helped lead strikes, and recruited miners to socialism. — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
Thousands do benefit from love, support and comfort in their final chapter: I watched my dad slip away without pain as Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen tracks played in a warm Marie Curie hospice, surrounded by doting nurses and his… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
We live in a country where there is a lot of animosity. If your politics is radical it antagonises. People might think I am… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
A society should be judged by how it treats its children. A country that fails to invest in its children is imperilling its future. — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
From a very young age, boys are taught that real men get into fights, say demeaning things about girls and women, show extraordinary athletic… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
Dieting is long-haul. Many rapid weight loss programs actually only squeeze the water out of you. Just like a wet sponge. But a good… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
The vast majority of people back higher taxes on the rich. Yet these are fringe ideas within most of the mainstream media, which marginalises… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
David Cameron set impossible targets and relentlessly portrayed immigration as a social burden while pursuing an economic strategy that suppressed wages. It did not… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
The liberation of workers from excessive work was one of the pioneering demands of the labour movement. — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
If you've never lived outside London, and if you've always had a car, it's difficult to understand how dire bus services undermine your standard… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
If only Brexit would go away. It sucks the political oxygen away from the issues we should all be discussing: like low wages, insecure… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
We recognise that, like us, other humans have insecurities and ambitions; we fall in love and have relationships that end in heartbreak; we worry… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
We live in an age where in politics, people can't disagree with each other without good faith being questioned, there is always an ulterior… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
