menu_open Columnists
Jason Okundaye

Jason Okundaye

The Guardian

We use cookies to provide some features and experiences in QOSHE

More information  .  Close

Minorities in adverts are menaced, footballers observing Ramadan are booed. Is this the Britain we want?

Minorities in adverts are menaced, footballers observing Ramadan are booed. Is this the Britain we want?

How should the UK deal with the increasing fracturing of multiculturalism right now, and how we are all being pitted against each other? This idea was...

03.03.2026 10

The Guardian

Jason Okundaye

I was at the Baftas – and while hearing the N-word was unsettling, all anger should be aimed at the BBC

I attended the Bafta awards on Sunday. And I arrived early enough to hear the Tourette syndrome (TS) campaigner John Davidson, on whom the...

25.02.2026 10

The Guardian

Jason Okundaye

Go to university! No, get a trade! How can young people survive when all the paths are landmined?

Some months ago, I was at my old university, speaking to prospective sixth-form and college students about taking a degree in the arts and what future...

23.02.2026 100

The Guardian

Jason Okundaye

Olivia Colman sometimes thinks of herself as a gay man. As a gay man myself, I say – welcome

12.02.2026 10

The Guardian

Jason Okundaye

Does it matter when celebrities like Bad Bunny castigate Trump and ICE at the Grammys? You bet!

02.02.2026 10

The Guardian

Jason Okundaye

On £100k and feeling hard-done-by? It seems absurd – but a cold truth lies beneath

26.01.2026 10

The Guardian

Jason Okundaye

The hill I will die on: Films and TV shows are better if you read the spoilers first

04.01.2026 20

The Guardian

Jason Okundaye

Bad blood between the Beckhams at Christmas might seem trite. But here’s why it’s important

23.12.2025 40

The Guardian

Jason Okundaye

When it’s developers v people, usually the money wins. I saw how one community came out on top

20.12.2025 10

The Guardian

Jason Okundaye

Who knew it would take an American pope to remind us of the value of art and good taste?

22.11.2025 10

The Guardian

Jason Okundaye

Welcome to the great unwokening of Hollywood! Shame no one can be bothered to turn up

15.11.2025 8

The Guardian

Jason Okundaye

If the right really wants free speech in universities, why is it so obsessed with discrediting students?

01.11.2025 10

The Guardian

Jason Okundaye

Welfare in Australia is a cruel shambles. How about we actually try to help people not squish them

27.10.2025 10

The Guardian

Jason Okundaye

No shame, no opprobrium: racism is priced in now. Of all the right’s victories, this one has been critical

27.10.2025 5

The Guardian

Jason Okundaye

Farewell, Amazon Fresh – the no tills thing was all a bit too awkward

27.09.2025 10

The Guardian

Jason Okundaye

As Hollywood mourns Robert Redford, why do we still struggle with the idea of male beauty?

20.09.2025 5

The Guardian

Jason Okundaye

Is apocalyptic thinking getting you down? This foursome has a solution

15.08.2025 10

The Guardian

Jason Okundaye

Martin Rowson on Trump and Putin’s meeting in Alaska – cartoon

15.08.2025 20

The Guardian

Jason Okundaye

Why I withdrew my book from an LGBTQ+ literary prize

15.08.2025 10

The Guardian

Jason Okundaye

The Diane Abbott row shows how impoverished Britain’s conversations about race have become

18.07.2025 20

The Guardian

Jason Okundaye

Was the Black Lives Matter rebellion all for nothing? It may feel like that, but I have seen reasons for hope

24.05.2025 10

The Guardian

Jason Okundaye

Britain has dropped down Europe’s LGBTQ+ rights rankings. Good – now we might have to face reality

17.05.2025 7

The Guardian

Jason Okundaye

Do yourself, the world and me a big favour: stop phone-filming at gigs

03.05.2025 8

The Guardian

Jason Okundaye

A ‘Black Snape’ in the new Harry Potter seems designed to cause controversy – but it could work

20.04.2025 10

The Guardian

Jason Okundaye