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Austerity and economic insecurity have collided with the scapegoating of migrants and refugees, at a time when global instability and warfare have driven millions to flee violence and persecution, a minority of whom have arrived on European shores to be met with hostility.
- Owen Jones
#Insecurity
#Minority
#Time
#Violence
Donald Trump's mini-me, Boris Johnson, is in the ascendant: the Tory crown is his to lose. But his colleagues know he's an incompetent, a man who cares only for himself, who was fired twice - by a newspaper editor and a party leader - over allegations of dishonesty.
- Owen Jones
#Colleagues
#Crown
#Know
#Lose
#Man
We need to organise unapologetically anti-racist campaigns in our communities, ones that emphasise the fact that the blame for social ills lies with the powerful.
- Owen Jones
#Blame
#Fact
#Need
#Powerful
#Social
From a very young age, boys are taught that real men get into fights, say demeaning things about girls and women, show extraordinary athletic prowess, avoid looking studious, don't do anything to display supposed emotional 'weakness' and prioritise competition over cooperation.
- Owen Jones
#Age
#Competition
#Men
#Real
#Women
Neoliberalism has left Britain's boss classes drunk on triumphalism, paying themselves record salaries and bonuses while their workers are imprisoned by poverty and insecurity. It was never going to last.
- Owen Jones
#Boss
#Drunk
#Insecurity
#Never
#Poverty
Opposition to immigration is an emotional argument, and human beings are emotional, not robots powered by data.
- Owen Jones
#Argument
#Data
#Emotional
#Human
#Robots
Few would deny the importance of tackling online hatred or child abuse content. The internet, after all, has become a key weapon for those who disseminate and incite hatred and violence against minorities, and for those who pose a horrifying threat to children.
- Owen Jones
#Children
#Internet
#Pose
#Violence
Austerity is literally a matter of life and death. Unless it is stopped, lives will continue to be unnecessarily shortened.
- Owen Jones
#Continue
#Death
#Life
#Matter
#Will
Poverty damages the educational potential of children, whether through stress or poor diet, while overcrowded, poor-quality housing has the same impact too.
- Owen Jones
#Children
#Diet
#Impact
#Poverty
#Stress
University should foster imagination and creativity, enriching society in the process.
- Owen Jones
#Creativity
#Imagination
#Process
#Should
#Society
Private schools do confer other advantages, of course: whether it be networks, or a sense of confidence that can shade into a poisonous sense of social superiority.
- Owen Jones
#Confidence
#Course
#Sense
#Shade
#Social
Socialism is the democratisation of every level of society, or it is nothing. It is based on an understanding that the concentration of wealth and power leaves democracy hollowed out, and that simply trooping to a polling station every few years is an insufficient counterweight to the behemoths of global capital.
- Owen Jones
#Democracy
#Level
#Power
#Society
#Wealth
Turkey is a warning: democracy is precious but fragile. It underlines how rights and freedoms are often won at great cost and sacrifice but can be stripped away by regimes exploiting national crises.
- Owen Jones
#Democracy
#Great
#Precious
#Sacrifice
We need global tax justice, not charitable scraps dictated by the fancies of the elite.
- Owen Jones
#Elite
#Global
#Justice
#Need
#Tax
Grief is like wandering through a minefield, as my mother puts it: however carefully you tread, a sudden detonation can happen out of nowhere. A song played in a supermarket; an overheard phrase; someone in the distance who your mind cruelly suggests is your loved one for a fleeting moment.
- Owen Jones
#Distance
#Grief
#Mind
#Moment
#Song
Humans should be the Earth's custodians, not its butchers. Much attention - though not enough - focuses on the existential threat posed by climate change. But humanity's mass destruction of the Earth's wildlife is all too little discussed.
- Owen Jones
#Attention
#Change
#Earth
#Humanity
The passenger pigeon, the golden toad, the Caspian tiger: they are all gone, and other species hang by a thread. Our actions are not merely driving other species to extinction: we threaten our own survival, too, by destabilising ecosystems and destroying biodiversity.
- Owen Jones
#Biodiversity
#Golden
#Survival
#Tiger
Tuition fees have formed part of a full-frontal assault on the living standards of a generation battered by a housing crisis, stagnating wages and slashed services.
- Owen Jones
#Crisis
#Generation
#Housing
#Living
A society should be judged by how it treats its children. A country that fails to invest in its children is imperilling its future.
- Owen Jones
#Children
#Country
#Future
#How
#Society
Loneliness is devastating our mental and physical health and, at its worst, is killing us. Yet thankfully, unlike some conditions, we can easily cure it. We just need the will.
- Owen Jones
#Health
#Loneliness
#Us
#Will
#Worst
Freedom of movement in Europe has been all but abandoned as a cause in British politics. Brexit was far more about freedom of movement than our exact trading relationship with the EU, and the electorate rejected it.
- Owen Jones
#Brexit
#Freedom
#Politics
#Relationship
In a society rigged in favour of landlords over tenants, to rent privately is to be deprived of security.
- Owen Jones
#Landlords
#Over
#Rent
#Security
#Society
Yet we have learned from the Scottish independence vote and with Brexit what referendums do to our politics. They foster bitter divisions in ways that parliamentary elections tend not to do.
- Owen Jones
#Brexit
#Independence
#Politics
#Vote
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