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Owen Jones

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Across Europe, the far right is rising. That it seems normal is all the more terrifying

N ormalisation is the process by which something unusual or extreme becomes part of the everyday. What once provoked horror and outrage soon barely...

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Britain isn’t a nation of slackers – we’re on the clock 24/7 and we deserve the ‘right to disconnect’

T he idea of a clear demarcation between work and life is, for most people, an absurd joke: your life is being invaded, and you have no line of...

24.05.2023 10

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Here’s what I want: a hung parliament. Let me tell you why

T he best outcome for the next election will not appear on the ballot paper, and is already the target of a hostile and escalating press campaign. It...

17.05.2023 9

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Consider the coronation arrests – and witness Britain’s slide towards authoritarianism

D emocratic freedoms are hard won and easily lost. Rights secured after generations of struggle – by citizens risking their safety, liberty and,...

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Keir Starmer will no longer scrap tuition fees. Just what does his Labour party stand for?

T his week, Keir Starmer finally abandoned his commitment to scrap university tuition fees, one of the last remaining concrete pledges he made to...

03.05.2023 5

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Tucker Carlson has lost his job – but the far right has won the battle for the mainstream

I t is difficult to begrudge anyone for celebrating the downfall of far-right provocateur Tucker Carlson, ignominiously ejected from Fox News....

26.04.2023 40

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Politicians are right about the ‘decline of the west’ – but so wrong about the causes

I f there is such a thing as an onward march of human progress, it has not just halted, but screeched into reverse. Last autumn, a little-discussed...

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The Tories are still allergic to experts – just look at their laughing gas ban

W e can predict with some precision what will happen when the government criminalises the possession of nitrous oxide. Hundreds of thousands of young...

27.03.2023 60

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Scrapping the Met isn’t enough. There are radical – and proven – alternatives

T he Metropolitan police cannot be reformed: it must be given its final rites and buried for good. I made this argument in the first column I ever...

23.03.2023 200

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Rejoice at Lineker’s victory over the BBC and the right. Then learn the lessons for battles to come

T he BBC’s humiliating climbdown over its attempted silencing of Gary Lineker is a milestone. For years, emboldened rightwingers have succeeded in...

14.03.2023 400

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The Guardian view on Tunisia’s one-man show: bad for the country and its people

“W hy do you think that, at 67, I would start a career as a dictator?” Tunisia’s president, Kais Saied, told the New York Times in 2021,...

07.03.2023 40

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Think Sunak’s anti-refugee stance is bad? Just wait till the climate crisis truly ravages poorer countries

C onsider Abdul, a 26-year-old Darfuri refugee whose fellow villagers were burnt to death by Janjaweed, an Arab-supremacist militia. Think of...

06.03.2023 5

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Left to ministers, the UK’s mpox response would have been a disaster. Thanks to queer campaigners, it wasn’t

H arun’s nightmare began with a fever, a general sense of being under the weather. Maybe it was Covid, he thought. Then his temperature soared to...

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Starmer’s banishment of Corbyn is one more step in eradicating the left from the Labour party

T riumphalism reigns in Keir Starmer’s operation. For the factional warriors surrounding the Labour leader, sparring with Tories is business but...

17.02.2023 200

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The Tories have revealed their battle plan for a new kind of class war

B oris Johnson’s Brexit has been a dismal failure, heralding only falling investment and stagnant growth. If you want an admission of this truth,...

13.02.2023 300

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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...

04.02.2023 90

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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

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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...

15.01.2023 200

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The census for England and Wales shows how far LGBTQ rights have come – and how far we have to go

More people than ever before have declared themselves as not heterosexual, but, sadly, the trans community still faces adversity, says Guardian...

06.01.2023 10

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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

04.01.2023 200

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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...

30.12.2022 100

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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

22.12.2022 100

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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

13.12.2022 550

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If Labour’s leadership is hobbling internal candidates, is it fit to run a democracy?

Mounting evidence of dirty tricks against prospective MPs can’t be dismissed as leftwing sour grapes, says the Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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