His journalistic career began on local newspapers in Hertfordshire and the Cambridge Evening News where he was Crown Court correspondent.
It was at this time that his only stage play End of the Night, based on the life of French novelist Louis-Ferdinand Celine, was produced at Brighton's Pavilion Theatre in November 1991.
[citation needed] Returning to England in 1995, he worked as a freelance journalist for The Guardian and The Spectator while writing his biography of the poet Rupert Brooke, Life, Death and Myth (1999).
[citation needed] Jones is a frequent contributor to the World Association of International Studies (WAIS) online discussion group, created by Ronald Hilton of Stanford University.
[citation needed] Jones also conducts adult and schools tours of the Western Front, "In the Footsteps of the war poets".