Netflix’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover is a completely pointless adaptation
This film swaps the darkness and brutality of DH Lawrence’s novel for tender scenes of dancing in the rain.
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Tomiwa Owolade
Tomiwa Owolade is a New Statesman contributing writer and the author of the forthcoming This is Not America. His writing includes analysis and comment on subjects such as philosophy, race and free speech.
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Who is authentically black if not Kwasi Kwarteng?
The Labour MP Rupa Huq’s comments about the Chancellor imply that black people occupy the lowest rungs of society…
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Why we should celebrate British sentimentality
The emotional openness shown after the death of the Queen makes us a better and kinder country.
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Support free speech and you must support the right to criticise the monarchy
If the Queen was custodian of a free society, we should defend the right to protest against the institution…
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We look to the young for a better future – but they are turning away from democracy
Hostility to democracy runs deep because the establishment has failed to uphold its side of the bargain.
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Black British values don’t align with the Tories – or Labour
There is no such thing – is a gay, atheist man of Jamaican descent the same as a Muslim…
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The “woke” may be dogmatic, but social progress owes a lot to religious fervour
Historically – from the abolition of slavery to gender equality – religious-based activism has been effective in enacting change.
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Censoring university reading lists is crude and condescending
“Offence” isn’t the only way to measure the worth of literature.
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The conservative case for returning the Benin bronzes to Nigeria
By looting the artefacts, British colonial forces stripped them from the cultural context that gave them value.
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