Dateline London, that most civilised of discussion programmes, included Independent writer Owen Jones earlier today. He adapted well to the Dateline London style of polite listening and measured intelligent responses (unlike his appearance on Question Time where he attempted to silence the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions by shouting incoherently). The check shirts are becoming a cliché but perhaps he is worried about being denounced on Twitter as a class traitor if he appeared in a suit (and here you can detect the middle class insecurities of Owen Jones - no true working class person would have any qualms about appearing in a suit, as Derek Hatton demonstrated in the 1980s).
Owen Jones has announced that he is writing a book about the Establishment. His own career might be regarded as a case study. Anti-establishment activist to New Establishment media personality (one can hardly get more New Establishment than Dateline London) with the ultimate Old Establishment goal of... what exactly?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01pd19h/Dateline_London_08_12_2012/
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