Owen Jones was born in Sheffield, grew up in Stockport and studied history at Oxford. His first book, the international bestseller Chavs, was long-listed for the Guardian First Book Award and chosen as one of the New York Times top 10 non-fiction books of 2011. In 2013 he won Young Writer of the Year at the Political Book Awards. His second book is the bestselling The Establishment: and How They Get Away With It, an expose of Britain's powerful elites. He is a columnist for the Guardian and a frequent broadcaster.
An eye-opening state-of-the-nation book. -- Armando Iannucci * New
Statesman Books of the Year *
I'll never look at UK class politics in the same way after Owen
Jones's bracing and principled The Establishment -- Naomi
Klein * Guardian Books of the Year *
I am delighted to see social class storm its way back into our
contemporary history: Owen Jones's The Establishment offers
a well-documented as well as searing critique of the groupthink
that binds together our rulers -- David Kynaston * Guardian Books
of the Year *
Owen Jones may have the face of a baby and the voice of George
Formby but he is our generation's Orwell and we must cherish him --
Russell Brand
This is the most important book on the real politics of the UK in
my lifetime, and the only one you will ever need to read. You will
be enlightened and angry -- Irvine Welsh
Owen Jones displays a powerful combination of cool analysis and
fiery anger in this dissection of the profoundly and sickeningly
corrupt state that is present-day Britain. He is a fine writer, and
this is a truly necessary book -- Philip Pullman
Thorough and admirably vivid ... he is excellent on how the state
has become a creature of capital, controlled by the corporate
sector. As Jones shows, British capitalism is highly dependent on
state largesse and rich corporations are the biggest scroungers of
all * New Statesman *
Powerful . . . The book's great strength lies in the simple power
of accumulation. Again and again, Jones connects the dots in
parallel lines, so that the single examples that might in
themselves be dismissed as circumstantial or overblown become more
or less unanswerable . . . He is a writer of real rhetorical force
* Independent *
A passionate account of political and economic injustice * Observer
*
A book of revelations... The last time the British Establishment
was so intertwined, so arrogant and so powerful was a century ago,
and the last democratic revolution that redistributed wealth took a
lifetime to play out -- Danny Dorling * Times Higher Education
*
An important book ... a systematic critique of the various
political, corporate and economic institutions that seek to
consolidate the interests of the few at the expense of the many ...
Jones has the establishment clutching at their little golden straws
... It is not an easy road, Jones argues, but if we show strength
and solidarity - perhaps adding a little common sense - we can
reinstate true democracy and thus prioritize the needs of the many
* Huffington Post *
The breadth of Jones' research is impressive ... the chapter on the
recent history of ideas is fascinating ... the sections on
corporate tax-avoidance, the lobbying industry and the sell-off of
the NHS ought to have genuine British taxpayers spitting with rage.
Jones ultimately sees his Establishment not as the guardians of
British values but as a threat to them -- Richard Godwin * Evening
Standard *
In many respects, Owen Jones is the best thing to happen to the
non-compromised, non-New Labour left in the mainstream media in
decades ... On the post-1979 'establishment' Jones is very strong
indeed -- Owen Hatherley * London Review of Books *
Owen Jones is a phenomenon of our times ... He asks some familiar
questions, but with a compelling urgency ... he is systematically
interested in the underlying mentality, and not just the behaviour,
of his subjects, giving his study a refreshing and crucial extra
dimension * Times Literary Supplement *
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