There I was in Nottingham, with big political beasts including John Prescott and Ken Clarke on the panel with me and, for a change, I had made a concession to expectations. Fashion was not my forte, but at least, I thought, I had made a real effort. I found it laid out for me in our flat, and felt much more confident when I put it on. ‘Clothes are not my thing.’ Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian But my then flatmate Liam took pity, and promised to leave out a special, smart-looking shirt. The fact that I looked like Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone wouldn’t play in my favour – on my Twitter feed, people regularly queried whether I was taking time off from my paper round when I appeared on TV.
The first time I went on the BBC’s Question Time, in February 2012, I wanted to make a decent impression. Can the Guardian’s style squad change things? Straight eye for the queer guy – Owen Jones gets a (much-needed) makeoverĭeclared the ninth-worst-dressed man in the UK, Owen Jones has not found being gay equals having good fashion sense.
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