Michael Collins

Michael Collins is the author of The Likes Of Us, a biography of the white working class. He has written for The Observer, The Guardian, TLS, the Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Times, the New Statesman and Prospect.

Black intellectuals who refuse to subscribe to the liberal consensus on race have been belittled, insulted and ignored by a predominantly white left wing elite

Michael Collins maps the relationship between two of the greatest writers of the American south

From the questionable calibre of candidates to clandestine cancellations, Michael Collins queries the future of this (not so) honourable tradition

Michael Collins says the corporation is fighting the wrong war, as usual

The Sussexes are just one minor factor among a number that could ultimately lead to the demise of the monarchy

The race debate has been taken over by grifters with a vested interest in a booming equalities industry

Facts are overlooked in American Utopia’s HBO concert film to accommodate the systemic white racism narrative

Our way of death has become increasingly mawkish. Far better to opt for a swift cremation, without frills or power ballads

Why is the American south still regarded as repository for all the shortcomings of America?

It’s double standards that the killing of white schoolboy Richard Everitt achieved none of the notoriety of Stephen Lawrence’s death