Owen, you made your name with Chavs, a book about the middle class looking down on working-class Britain. In YouGov's big January poll, Reform had 39% of routine and manual workers, 34% of the poorest households and 37% of social renters. The Greens, the party you've backed as the new home of the left, had 12% of manual workers, and their biggest gains came from graduates and the richest households. So hasn't the working class heard your economic pitch and turned it down? And if your politics now mostly appeals to comfortable graduates, how are you different from the people you wrote Chavs about?
Hello Comrade Owen, when the glorious socialist utopia finally arrives and capitalism is finally defeated, will the state-issued daily ration books include a prepaid data allowance for your emergency solidarity threads, or is posting righteous fury on X considered a free public utility for the proletariat?
How do you think you are helping the Palestinians with your type of activism? Do you ever consider that you are radicalizing everyday, peaceful Jews who wanted a two state solution against the Palestinian cause altogether?
The Palestinians have never, when offered a two state solution (I believe 4 times so far) accepted it. & I don’t believe they ever will because you can’t reason or bargain with an ideology that believes we must all be killed if we do not submit to Islam.
Owen, you’ve long dismissed ‘cancel culture’ as a right-wing myth, yet you strongly defend free speech and protest rights when they’re restricted over Gaza.
What consistent principle separates legitimate accountability from silencing—and does it apply equally when the speech challenges progressive orthodoxy?
Id like to ask a hypothetical. Imagine you're an immigration officer reviewing the case of a person's application for a visa.
Everything checks out but you see on social media that this person believes homosexuals should be given the death penalty. You ask him about it and he confirms that this is his position.
Hi Owen, I first came across your work when your book Chavs was recommended me by a well meaning middle-class friend of mine after we had had a conversation discussing how I felt the middleclasses were misunderstanding and patronising the working class in the wake of the brexit referendum (I'd voted remain myself, but had been appalled by the bile poured out online on those who had voted leave)
Although I found some of the points you made in your book interesting and not without merit, I found your whole take on the word "chav" itself deeply offensive. I grew up working class, in a working class area, went to a predominantly working class school and have worked in construction (on the tools, not office ever since. Everyone i grew up with and have worked with in adult life used the word chav, not as an insult for working class people, but for skiving, violent, feckless scrotes that made everyone around themselves lives miserable. I still use the word now. I found your book just incredibly patronising. It felt as though you were admitting that you see everyone that doesn't work with a keyboard for a living as "chavs", but because you can't bring yourself to admit that you're scared of us, you wanted to tell everyone you pitied us instead.
Am I wrong?
By the way, I laughed at the joke your friends made about woolworths jewellery, it was a fair comment
Hi Owen. I just want to know, about 50% of Israelis descend from people who lived in the middle east for hundreds of years, and then, after the founding of Israel 99% of them suddenly found themselves forced out of those countries, into a scenario where neighbors have continuously stated their desire to destroy the country that took them in
So I suppose my question is, where do you, a nice young brit, get the level of confidence you have to tell those people how to best handle Islamic extremists on their doorstep?
This is a separate comment to the one with my question: holy shit guys you are really treating us with the guests you've been getting on, Robert Winston, Andrew Neil and now Owen Jones?! Can't wait to see it
It is completely fair to protest peacefully but at what point would you stop going to a protest if it was hijacked weekly by extremists? The free Palestine marches every time have people shouting support for Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and the IRGC, have people chanting Khaybar Khaybar al Yahud, among other things. If you can't control these extremists, surely you shouldn't keep supporting these marches
Would the question 'why are you such an idiot?" Be appropriate?
Owen, you made your name with Chavs, a book about the middle class looking down on working-class Britain. In YouGov's big January poll, Reform had 39% of routine and manual workers, 34% of the poorest households and 37% of social renters. The Greens, the party you've backed as the new home of the left, had 12% of manual workers, and their biggest gains came from graduates and the richest households. So hasn't the working class heard your economic pitch and turned it down? And if your politics now mostly appeals to comfortable graduates, how are you different from the people you wrote Chavs about?
Great question
Hi Owen, why do you defend the arabs in palestine when they would all gladly throw you off the nearest tall building?
In fairness to the Arabs , I’d also like to throw him off a tall building.
Why doesn't Owen acknowledge the biological reality of sex, male and female?
Hello Comrade Owen, when the glorious socialist utopia finally arrives and capitalism is finally defeated, will the state-issued daily ration books include a prepaid data allowance for your emergency solidarity threads, or is posting righteous fury on X considered a free public utility for the proletariat?
How do you think you are helping the Palestinians with your type of activism? Do you ever consider that you are radicalizing everyday, peaceful Jews who wanted a two state solution against the Palestinian cause altogether?
The Palestinians have never, when offered a two state solution (I believe 4 times so far) accepted it. & I don’t believe they ever will because you can’t reason or bargain with an ideology that believes we must all be killed if we do not submit to Islam.
Owen, you’ve long dismissed ‘cancel culture’ as a right-wing myth, yet you strongly defend free speech and protest rights when they’re restricted over Gaza.
What consistent principle separates legitimate accountability from silencing—and does it apply equally when the speech challenges progressive orthodoxy?
Which left utopia does Owen aspire to , Russia , Venuzula China , national socialism or just his special version
How can someone, who studied history, come to be the way you are? Or is it a cynical tool rather than a weapon of change, for your own use…
Id like to ask a hypothetical. Imagine you're an immigration officer reviewing the case of a person's application for a visa.
Everything checks out but you see on social media that this person believes homosexuals should be given the death penalty. You ask him about it and he confirms that this is his position.
Are you still approving the application?
Hi Owen, I first came across your work when your book Chavs was recommended me by a well meaning middle-class friend of mine after we had had a conversation discussing how I felt the middleclasses were misunderstanding and patronising the working class in the wake of the brexit referendum (I'd voted remain myself, but had been appalled by the bile poured out online on those who had voted leave)
Although I found some of the points you made in your book interesting and not without merit, I found your whole take on the word "chav" itself deeply offensive. I grew up working class, in a working class area, went to a predominantly working class school and have worked in construction (on the tools, not office ever since. Everyone i grew up with and have worked with in adult life used the word chav, not as an insult for working class people, but for skiving, violent, feckless scrotes that made everyone around themselves lives miserable. I still use the word now. I found your book just incredibly patronising. It felt as though you were admitting that you see everyone that doesn't work with a keyboard for a living as "chavs", but because you can't bring yourself to admit that you're scared of us, you wanted to tell everyone you pitied us instead.
Am I wrong?
By the way, I laughed at the joke your friends made about woolworths jewellery, it was a fair comment
Hi Owen. I just want to know, about 50% of Israelis descend from people who lived in the middle east for hundreds of years, and then, after the founding of Israel 99% of them suddenly found themselves forced out of those countries, into a scenario where neighbors have continuously stated their desire to destroy the country that took them in
So I suppose my question is, where do you, a nice young brit, get the level of confidence you have to tell those people how to best handle Islamic extremists on their doorstep?
This is a separate comment to the one with my question: holy shit guys you are really treating us with the guests you've been getting on, Robert Winston, Andrew Neil and now Owen Jones?! Can't wait to see it
Owen, if you were forced to live in the middle east, which country would you choose and why?
There are nonces in British Jails I would save before I saved Owen.
It is completely fair to protest peacefully but at what point would you stop going to a protest if it was hijacked weekly by extremists? The free Palestine marches every time have people shouting support for Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and the IRGC, have people chanting Khaybar Khaybar al Yahud, among other things. If you can't control these extremists, surely you shouldn't keep supporting these marches