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Should art ever be destroyed? I debate that question with Mary Beard in the latest issue of the RA Magazine.

As Phillipson begins curriculum meddling, time to reread Tomiwa Owolade’s excellent piece on the foolishness of making English Literature a subset of sociology. unherd.com/2022/06/black-…

From Tomiwa Owolade 👌 '...I taught Larkin to my students because his poems move me at a visceral level: they convey the sense that, yes, this is what it is like to be haunted by fear and loneliness and impotence. And they do so with artistic virtuosity...' unherd.com/2022/06/black-…

Excellent by my friend Tomiwa Owolade. Argues with subtlety, nuance and depth on issues he genuinely knows much about. Genuinely heterodox - challenges lazy “progressive” thinking w/o falling into the trap of knee-jerk hard right. Bridget Phillipson would be wise to digest this.

What a special pair of writers The Times has in James Marriott and Tomiwa Owolade. Generational talents.

Well worth a read

Agreed, this is a perfect riposte to the push to decolonise.

As Tomiwa Owolade points out in his brilliant book, the average British black person is the child or grandchild immigrants whereas the average black American can trace their ancestry further back than the average white American. 6/7

Just finished This is not America by Tomiwa Owolade To paraphrase him: Black Americans are Americans. If they come back to Africa, they will realise that they're more of Americans than they're of Africans.

When we talk about "diversity", we really have to be specific, says Tomiwa Owolade newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6370

"The most successful movements for social justice operate by appealing to our basic moral and practical intuitions. They start from a place of understanding, not condescension." Tomiwa Owolade thetimes.com/article/6b2d35…

I'm delighted to share I'll be joining the The Telegraph as an Assistant Comment Editor on Monday. I've enjoyed being a freelance writer for publications like the Times and I'm excited for the next chapter in my career; I can't wait to join a paper as distinguished as the Telegraph.

This is a great signing.

Big transfer

This is like [famous footballer] signing for [famous football club]. (Tom is a sublime writer and one of the last remaining British critics worth the name. Telegraph is lucky to have him.)

Congratulations to Tom on the new job but I’ll miss his eminently wise opinion pieces in The Times. I’ve learned an awful lot from them.

For the Telegraph, I've written a review of the authorised biography of William F. Buckley: one of the most influential American conservatives of the 20th century. telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fict…

Yes, someone should write a book about this. x.com/HealthUntoDeat…