- Owen Jones was born on August 8, 1984 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK. He is a writer, known for Totally Shameless: How TV Portrays the Working Class - The Huw Wheldon Memorial Lecture (2013), One Rogue Reporter (2014) and The Real George Michael: Portrait of an Artist (2023).
- Grew up in Stockport, UK.
- After graduating, he worked as a trade union and parliamentary researcher.
- In 2019, broadcaster Andrew Neil accused Jones on live television of propagating "lies and smears" about him.
- Journalist and author.
- Now, if people were to make a homophobic comment in public, or a sexist comment, or a racist comment, they would expect to be stigmatized, they would expect widespread disapproval, and I think that's a good thing and I think that shows that people have collectively driven back attitudes which of course were founded in bigotry and oppression.
- Can somebody explain to me how describing gay people as "tank-topped bumboys" are words that can be twisted; the same goes for comparing equal marriage to three men marrying a dog. Actually, don't bother, because you can't.
- [on Trumpism] This is fascism, it is waging war on minorities and the left, it is on the rise across the Western world, and it must be fought and defeated.
- Do I bother going on Good Morning Britain (2014) tomorrow to listen to Piers Morgan verbally masturbating all over himself, or am I wasting my life. Thoughts?
- Some people think Julia Hartley-Brewer's nastiness is a performance, an act, that she can't really be as vile as she comes across. I'm afraid she's worse in real life: the most personally unpleasant person with a media platform in Britain. That takes some doing.
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