{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/68de580c52ddd4d4572281cb/6ab2f938b8c4cddd75808854?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Owen Jones: Hubris haunts the West","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/68de580c52ddd4d4572281cb/1790112641365-98cc8cc3-27f5-4de6-8972-64b3f1eeae88.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Owen Jones burst onto the scene in 2011 with his bestselling book Chavs: the demonisation of the working class. Since then his activism and journalism has followed the ebbs and flows of the left in UK politics, his own push and pull relationship with the Labour Party - which he ultimately left in 2024. </p><p><br></p><p>Now he wants to cast his analysis beyond Britain. He joins Oli Dugmore in this episode to discuss his new book The Fall of the West: how they really lost it. </p>","author_name":"New Statesman"}