Tomiwa Owolade

London

Assistant Comment Editor at The Telegraph

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Articles

Move aside, Trump - here’s the man who made conservatism fun

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Tomiwa Owolade

William F Buckley Jr was, above all else, a debater. He’s perhaps best known today for jousting with the liberal writer Gore Vidal in 1968 during the Republican and Democratic National Conventions. This formed the centrepiece of the 2015 Netflix documentary, Best of Enemies, and an acclaimed 2021 play by James Graham of the same name.
here's the man who made conservatism fun

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Tomiwa Owolade

William F Buckley Jr was, above all else, a debater. He's perhaps best known today for jousting with the liberal writer Gore Vidal in 1968 during the Republican and Democratic National Conventions. This formed the centrepiece of the 2015 Netflix documentary, Best of Enemies, and an acclaimed 2021 play by James Graham of the same name.
Want to understand Trumpism? This is the book you need

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Tomiwa Owolade

In When the Clock Broke, his detailed portrait of 1990s American politics, John Ganz explains the roots of today's schism on the RightThe 2016 election wasn't the first occasion on which Donald Trump had considered running to be president of the United States. He seriously played with the idea in the run-up to the 2000 election too. Oprah Winfrey might have been his running mate. Trump was a member of the Republican Party back then, but not a happy one.
The cult of multiculturalism has failed Britain

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Tomiwa Owolade

British multiculturalism did not start when HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury in 1948. Nor did it begin in the 50 years after the end of the Second World War. When Enoch Powell rallied against immigration in his “rivers of blood” speech in 1968, 98 per cent of the UK population was white British. Before the latter half of the 1990s, immigration played a marginal role in the mainstream life of our islands. The “year zero” of multiculturalism was 1997.
The cult of multiculturalism has failed Britain

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Tomiwa Owolade
There is no such thing as ‘Generation Z’

2 months 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'

2 months ago | telegraph.co.uk | Tomiwa Owolade
Hostile activists never learnt art of persuasion

Feb 16, 2025 | thetimes.com | Tomiwa Owolade
US social mobility is overhyped

Feb 2, 2025 | thetimes.com | Tomiwa Owolade
How a band of philosophers took America to court – and won

Jan 27, 2025 | 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.