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

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

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The coming of age genre is experiencing a renaissance

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The news is bad, but on Del Rey’s watch the poetry is sometimes pretty good, and getting better

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Rejoice, Ripley is back! But why are we so drawn to Patricia Highsmith’s anti-hero?

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The Black Lives Matter movement’s ideology is at odds with much of what the Anglican church holds dear

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The demonisation of the white working class becomes more overt by the day. They are being airbrushed from history

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