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. He tweets at @mistermcollins
The wrong kind of race murder
It’s double standards that the killing of white schoolboy Richard Everitt achieved none of the notoriety of Stephen Lawrence’s death
Lana Del Rey’s poetic dream
The news is bad, but on Del Rey’s watch the poetry is sometimes pretty good, and getting better
Ripley returns
Rejoice, Ripley is back! But why are we so drawn to Patricia Highsmith’s anti-hero?
The Church of Woke
The Black Lives Matter movement’s ideology is at odds with much of what the Anglican church holds dear
The tribe that disappeared
The demonisation of the white working class becomes more overt by the day. They are being airbrushed from history
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The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Can we reduce the manosphere to mental health?
Louis Theroux’s attempt to find the trauma that motivates androcratic influencers is unconvincing
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Exiles from the Rainbow nation
Race, land and why white South Africans are leaving their homes behind
Cofnas, Cambridge and academic freedom
Truly provocative ideas are still unwelcome in our universities
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
