The Mike Robbins blog

I’ve just read two recent books set in Texas suburbia – and they’re character-driven, inventive and humane Texan literature is near...

There is more than one threat to democracy in Britain, but the worst is an electoral system that seems set up to sabotage it As I w...

(This was written less than a week after the 2016 Brexit vote in the UK. As we come up to the 10th anniversary, I've considered updating...