{"id":12160,"date":"2011-09-29T13:00:21","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=12160"},"modified":"2011-09-29T13:00:21","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T12:00:21","slug":"owen-jones-is-deserving-left-wing-thinker-of-the-year-whilst-i-come-in-at-number-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/09\/29\/owen-jones-is-deserving-left-wing-thinker-of-the-year-whilst-i-come-in-at-number-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Owen Jones is deserving left wing thinker of the year &#8211; whilst I come in at number 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Readers of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leftfootforward.org\/2011\/09\/owen-jones-most-influential-left-wing-thinker-of-the-year-2010-11\/\" target=\"_blank\">Left Foot Forward<\/a> have voted Owen Jones, academic and author of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Chavs-Demonization-Working-Owen-Jones\/dp\/184467696X\">Chavs: the Demonisation of the Working Class<\/a>\u201d, as the most influential leftwing thinker of the year 2010\/11.\u00a0He came ahead of Caroline Lucas, Tom Watson and Polly Toynbee to take the top spot.<\/p>\n<p>The full results are listed below:<\/p>\n<p>1) Owen Jones (Academic, author and commentator)<\/p>\n<p>2)\u00a0 Caroline Lucas (Leader of the Green Party)<\/p>\n<p>3) Tom Watson (Media campaigner)<\/p>\n<p>4) Polly Toynbee (Journalist)<\/p>\n<p>5) Paul Krugman (Economist and opinion journalist)<\/p>\n<p>6) Naomi Klein (Author and journalist)<\/p>\n<p><strong>7) Richard Murphy (Tax expert and blogger)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>8)\u00a0Ed Miliband (Leader of the opposition)<\/p>\n<p>9) Ken Livingstone (Mayoral candidate)<\/p>\n<p>10) Mehdi Hasan (Journalist)<\/p>\n<p>11) Nick Davies (Guardian media journalist)<\/p>\n<p>12) Ed Balls (Shadow chancellor)<\/p>\n<p>13) Will Hutton (Author and commentator)<\/p>\n<p>14) The Disability Rights Community<\/p>\n<p>15) Barack Obama (US President)<\/p>\n<p>16) Peter Tatchell (Human rights campaigner)<\/p>\n<p>17) Nicholas Shaxson (Author, researcher and campaigner)<\/p>\n<p>18) Maurice Glasman (Academic, author and lord)<\/p>\n<p>19) Alex Salmond (First Minister of Scotland)<\/p>\n<p>20) Tony Blair (Middle East peace envoy)<\/p>\n<p>21) Andrew Simms (Policy director of New Economics Foundation)<\/p>\n<p>22) Vince Cable (Business Secretary)<\/p>\n<p>23) Neil Lawson (Chair of think tank Compass)<\/p>\n<p>24) Anthony Painter (Researcher and theorist)<\/p>\n<p>25) Bernard-Henri Levy (Philosopher and commentator)<\/p>\n<p>26) Dani Rodrick\u00a0\u00a0(Academic and tweeter)<\/p>\n<p>27) Elizabeth Anderson (Philosopher)<\/p>\n<p>28) Deborah Mattinson (Pollster)<\/p>\n<p>29) Lane Kenworthy (Sociologist and blogger)<\/p>\n<p>30) Jacob Hacker (Academic and author)<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Owen and many thanks to those who voted for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readers of Left Foot Forward have voted Owen Jones, academic and author of \u201cChavs: the Demonisation of the Working Class\u201d, as the most influential leftwing<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/09\/29\/owen-jones-is-deserving-left-wing-thinker-of-the-year-whilst-i-come-in-at-number-7\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}