Owen Jones quotes

If you are dim but have rich parents, a life of comfort, affluence and power is almost inevitable - while the bright but poor are systematically robbed of their potential.

A society should be judged by how it treats its children. A country that fails to invest in its children is imperilling its future.

In a society rigged in favour of landlords over tenants, to rent privately is to be deprived of security.

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.

Thousands do benefit from love, support and comfort in their final chapter: I watched my dad slip away without pain as Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen tracks played in a warm Marie Curie hospice, surrounded by doting nurses and his family.

Brands are increasingly flirting with the realm of politics.

In the 1920s prohibition in the US notoriously failed to tackle alcohol use, led to lethal forms of liquor entering the black market, fuelled organised crime and its associated violence, and wasted public money.

A society should be judged by how it treats its children. A country that fails to invest in its children is imperilling its future.