Owen Jones
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United Kingdom
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Robbing the poor to fund tax cuts for the rich – Britain is a Tory test lab for a new rightwing populism
Freezing benefits in order to slash taxes for wealthy voters? It’s nakedly obvious who this government really cares about, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones → Read More
Keir Starmer will no longer scrap tuition fees. Just what does his Labour party stand for?
No leader of a major party has so comprehensively junked their leadership platform in British democratic history, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones → Read More
Tucker Carlson has lost his job – but the far right has won the battle for the mainstream
The sacked Fox News host was one figurehead of a misinformation industry that has reshaped rightwing politics across the world, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones → Read More
Politicians are right about the ‘decline of the west’ – but so wrong about the causes
The problem is not moral decay. It’s the withering away of our living standards, security and wellbeing, says the Guardian columnist Owen Jones → Read More
The Tories are still allergic to experts – just look at their laughing gas ban
Making possession illegal will boost criminal gangs and criminalise young people. It’s another vote-chasing stunt from ministers, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones → Read More
Scrapping the Met isn’t enough. There are radical – and proven – alternatives
Only a small proportion of rape, burglary and violent crimes are actually solved by the police, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones → Read More
Rejoice at Lineker’s victory over the BBC and the right. Then learn the lessons for battles to come
For years, the toxic right have pulled the national debate in their own direction. The mass BBC rebellion showed how we can pull it back, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones → Read More
Think Sunak’s anti-refugee stance is bad? Just wait till the climate crisis truly ravages poorer countries
Global heating is the fault of rich countries, but they will stop at nothing to prevent the world’s most deprived from finding a safe home, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones → Read More
The UK has quietly done an incredible job of fighting mpox – but it’s no thanks to ministers
It took the LGBTQ+ community, educated by the trauma of HIV and Aids, to fill a vacuum left by government failure, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones → Read More
Starmer’s banishment of Corbyn is one more step in eradicating the left from the Labour party
As problems in the UK grow, excluding members with more transformative ideas may harm the party in the long run, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones → Read More
The Tories have revealed their battle plan for a new kind of class war
The promotion of Lee Anderson reveals a lot about who is and who isn’t considered working class in Britain, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones → Read More
In The Last of Us’s zombie hellscape, same-sex love is no big deal – now for the real world
Of all the places to find a heartening queer love story: the apocalypse. This TV series is a major cultural milestone, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones → Read More
My dad died five years ago. I’ve learned it’s better to talk about death imperfectly than not at all
I discovered that breaking the taboo of talking about loss was vital for healing, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones → Read More
Britain’s excess death rate is at a disastrous high – and the causes go far beyond Covid
A deadly, avoidable crisis is under way, fuelled by NHS cuts, the neglect of social care, inequality and the soaring cost of living, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones → Read More
Here’s big news from the census: LGBTQ citizens feel more able to be their authentic selves
More people than ever before have declared themselves as not heterosexual, but, sadly, the trans community still faces adversity, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones → Read More
The right thrives on bullying ‘snowflakes’. But who will vote for it when they grow old?
Young people may represent the first generation that doesn’t grow more conservative with age, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones → Read More
Time for some hard truths: the Tories should have stuck with Boris Johnson
He was a disaster as PM, but without him it’s looking like electoral oblivion for Britain’s ‘natural party of government’, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones → Read More
Can’t choose your family at Christmas? Those rejected by their loved ones would disagree
For some LGBTQ+ shunned by relatives, friends and community are rewriting what ‘family’ means, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones → Read More
The right says strikes are abusive and wicked. I say they have helped build our society
Don’t believe Rishi Sunak or other Tory union-busters, says the Guardian columnist Owen Jones → Read More
‘The most effective press watchdog’: Owen Jones, Arwa Mahdawi and more on how Twitter changed journalism
Guardian writers look back at the platform’s triumphs and pitfalls as the service faces an uncertain future → Read More