Owen Jones

Owen Jones was born up in Sheffield and grew up in Stockport. His first book, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class was published in 2011, followed by The Establishment And How They Get Away With It in 2014 and This Land: The Story of a Movement in 2020. He first joined The Independent in 2012, and has been a columnist at The Guardian since 2014.
He launched his YouTube channel in 2020 and his Substack - BattleLines - in 2024. He's currently writing The Fall of the West for Penguin Random House, which is due to be published in 2026.