Tomiwa Owolade

London

Assistant Comment Editor at The Telegraph

Columns and essays in various publications. Judge on 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. Author of This is Not America. Contact: [email protected]

Articles

There is no such thing as ‘Generation Z’

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Tomiwa Owolade

Is there a group today that is analysed with greater scrutiny than Gen Z? Every week there is a new feature or essay obsessing about them in our national press: from racism and the idolisation of Andrew Tate to feminism and mental health, their condition is now a shorthand for the anxieties of the modern world. Gen Z has become merely a proxy for the nightmare from which we are trying to wake: we dump all our fears into the ongoing development (or lack of it) of a generation.
There is no such thing as 'Generation Z'

3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Tomiwa Owolade
Hostile activists never learnt art of persuasion

2 months ago | thetimes.com | Tomiwa Owolade
US social mobility is overhyped

2 months ago | thetimes.com | Tomiwa Owolade
How a band of philosophers took America to court – and won

2 months ago | telegraph.co.uk | Tomiwa Owolade

A British nonagenarian teams up with a French couple in an open relationship to put the United States on trial for crimes against humanity. It’s May 1967. This is the height of the Vietnam War; the civil rights movement is facing a stiff backlash in America. The Cold War keeps threatening to get hot. And Britain and France have lost much of their treasured colonies and public standing.
How a band of philosophers took America to court - and won

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Tomiwa Owolade

A British nonagenarian teams up with a French couple in an open relationship to put the United States on trial for crimes against humanity. It’s May 1967. This is the height of the Vietnam War; the civil rights movement is facing a stiff backlash in America. The Cold War keeps threatening to get hot. And Britain and France have lost much of their treasured colonies and public standing.
Starmer's loyalty to Siddiq exposed a flaw

Jan 19, 2025 | thetimes.com | Tomiwa Owolade
You can’t just pin boys’ struggles on Andrew Tate

Dec 8, 2024 | thetimes.com | Tomiwa Owolade

The boys are not all right. They haven’t been for a long time. And most of us agree it has something to do with the internet. This is why the government has issued guidance to teachers on what to do about boys in the classroom. The education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, wants to tackle the problem of misogyny among teenage boys. Too many of them are beguiled by men online who preach hatred of women and far-right politics.
‘Relatable’ curriculums smother aspiration

Nov 23, 2024 | thetimes.com | Tomiwa Owolade

No one could put DH Lawrence in a box. He was born to a working-class mining family in Nottinghamshire but roamed the world, from Europe to North America, south Asia to Australia, with his aristocratic German wife. Over 20 years, he published 12 novels, multiple short stories and poems and an assortment of non-fiction texts, from travel books to literary criticism. He never suffered from writer’s block.
To understand Badenoch, start in 1990s Nigeria

Nov 10, 2024 | thetimes.com | Tomiwa Owolade

Napoleon once said that to understand a man, you needed to know what was happening in the world when he was 20. I discovered that quote from the first line of DR Thorpe’s magnificent biography of Anthony Eden; fighting in the trenches of the First World War marked the future Tory foreign secretary and prime minister for the rest of his life. The line can be equally applied to another Tory prime minister, Ted Heath, who spent some of his early twenties visiting Nazi Germany.