Owen Jones

But surely no company is going to launch an advertising campaign if it thinks it will lose money; therefore, by definition, any…

— Owen Jones

Increased public ownership of the economy should be structured to create more worker self-management and control.

— Owen Jones

Here in Britain, black people are disproportionately targeted, arrested and imprisoned for drug offences, while organised and violent crime are granted a…

— Owen Jones

If sharp-elbowed parents are no longer able to buy themselves out of state education, they are incentivised to improve their local schools.

— Owen Jones

Who can begrudge the generosity of the wealthy, you might say. Wherever you stand on the concentration of wealth and power in…

— Owen Jones

It is a bad situation, the current state of the Labour leadership, a collective failure, the collapse of strategy and vision on…

— Owen Jones

Jobs have become more precarious and staff turnover has increased while union membership has plummeted, weakening workplace solidarity.

— Owen Jones

Restoring our shared humanity isn't easy, not least because powerful interests - from media outlets to politicians - relentlessly seek to undermine…

— Owen Jones

Humans should be the Earth's custodians, not its butchers. Much attention - though not enough - focuses on the existential threat posed…

— Owen Jones

In the 1980s, the trade unions suffered a series of calamitous setbacks. Mass unemployment terrified workers into not risking the wrath of…

— Owen Jones

For decades, life expectancy steadily rose in Britain: and then, suddenly, just as the Tories took power and imposed austerity, this improvement…

— Owen Jones

A huge portion of our lives involves the surrender of our freedom and personal autonomy. It is time in which we are…

— Owen Jones

When Art struggles, it succeeds; when revelling in its own successes, it as singularly fails.

— Owen Jones

Freedom of movement in Europe has been all but abandoned as a cause in British politics. Brexit was far more about freedom…

— Owen Jones

Yes, we need action to deal with online hatred and abuse. But let's make sure there are clear safeguards, or history will…

— Owen Jones

“A stack overflow error caused cabin fever and the reset button was Pattaya.”

— Owen Jones

All I want for 2019 is for much-loved pop stars to stop being inadvertent propagandists for mass-murdering dictatorships.

— Owen Jones

When those with wealth and power fear that their privilege is even mildly challenged, they invariably clothe themselves in the garbs of…

— Owen Jones

But cutting the working week would free the individual, giving millions of workers more time to spend as they see fit. Human…

— Owen Jones

Being on the left is supposed to be about unbounded optimism, a belief that what is deemed politically impossible by the 'sensible…

— Owen Jones

In a society rigged in favour of landlords over tenants, to rent privately is to be deprived of security.

— Owen Jones

The existence of billionaires should sound an alarm: they are the most extreme manifestation of wealth generated by the efforts of millions…

— Owen Jones

I am part of the left; I feel loyal. I don't want to do things that will be damaging to what I…

— Owen Jones

Genuine democracy is frequently messy, not stage-managed.

— Owen Jones

The 'free market' is a creed that stirs up near religious devotion among its believers. It is in fact a con, a…

— Owen Jones