James Robins

'Maybe we'll eat sand' What starvation is like

"My bones ache from being stepped on, but I have to do it for my children."

If anyone ever tells you 'Hamas could end this war today if they released the hostages' - send them this

‘They won’t return for a hundred years’ The war depends on lying

A skeleton need not speak.
It only needs to present its bones to make you a liar.

On the myth of Israel’s ‘war aims’ and how the nightmare is sustained by lying:

Here is the plan for Gaza's annihilation What 'voluntary emigration' really means

The experience of the past twenty months has taught Israel’s politicians and its officers impunity: there is no action they could order that goes too far, no strategy they can dream up that might be too extreme.

YouTube video by PoliticsJOE Journalist deconstructs US/UK complicity in Gaza conflict | James Robins interview

Here's my interview with @avasantina.bsky.social & @politicsjoe.bsky.social talking about Blowing Up Everything is Beautiful

There Is Nothing “Humanitarian” About Israel’s New Gaza Aid Plan Yes, Israel is letting some food into Gaza. But only so it can more efficiently brutalize its people.

This “humanitarian” regime is not benevolent, nor the heartbroken sympathy of the world for a people on the brink of annihilation.

It is a new phase of that annihilation, an instrument of Israeli policy to dominate Gaza.

On the new aid plan, for @newrepublic.com

This is not a ‘mask off’ moment The mask was never on

The bare rancour in Israeli rhetoric since it unilaterally broke the January ceasefire will only seem freshly terrifying to anyone who hasn’t been paying attention. This is not a “mask off” moment. The mask was never on.

Review | The threat of nuclear annihilation demands our immediate attention In “Six Minutes to Winter,” Mark Lynas explores the lasting threat and true horror of nuclear weapons.

Review of new book "Six Minutes to Winter" by @marklynas.bsky.social:
"My generation of millennials was the first to spend their childhoods in relative innocence, largely free from warnings of nuclear apocalypse...The threat never went away."

Review | The threat of nuclear annihilation demands our immediate attention In “Six Minutes to Winter,” Mark Lynas explores the lasting threat and true horror of nuclear weapons.

Wonderful and expansive review of my book Six Minutes to Winter by @jamesrobins.bsky.social in the @washingtonpost.com. "Two options remain: deterrence or annihilation. How long do we have before the former gives way to the latter?" washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Review | The threat of nuclear annihilation demands our immediate attention In “Six Minutes to Winter,” Mark Lynas explores the lasting threat and true horror of nuclear weapons.

"Annihilation is unthinkable. It is not nearly as unthinkable as allowing our present suspension to continue...These weapons are the worst thing humans have made, the worst we could ever make."

My debut in the @washingtonpost.com on @marklynas.bsky.social's urgent new book

Douglas Murray vs the tall trees “Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher?”

Seeing as we're all giving Douglas Murray a good kicking at the moment, I've unlocked my piece from last year on this twinky quisling, this bargain-bin Moseley, and his stupid, evil project

"A searing indictment of the brutality and atrocities inflicted on the Palestinians of Gaza and the collaboration of powerful nations in their murder."

Blowing Up Everything is Beautiful is out in the US today! Hurry to your nearest (independent, preferably) bookstore.

just guys being dudes I guess

Who killed the ceasefire? What really happened

Even before Trump made his insane and annihilatory demand to kick Palestinians out of Gaza, the ceasefire was already headed for collapse.

This is how it happened -

Who killed the ceasefire? What really happened

Even before Trump made his insane and annihilatory demand to kick Palestinians out of Gaza, the ceasefire was already headed for collapse.

This is how it happened -

This is what they're mad about? Groupchat bombing and the imperatives of empire

Why are the Democrats suddenly so mad?

Because Trump interfered with the imperatives of empire, and one of the core principles of the one-party consensus was broken: the duty to inflict massive violence at will, and to do so with your mouth shut.

A coda for the few John Hemingway, 1919-2025

"History doesn’t need survivors. But the living strands are being cut. With them to the wind goes a tangible memory of the combat necessary to bring about the destruction of fascism."

On the passing of the last Battle of Britain veteran

The nightmare begins again. How did we get to this point?

BLOWING UP EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL: ISRAEL'S EXTERMINATION OF GAZA is now available for pre-order: www.skyhorsepublishing.com/arcade-publi...

A small teaser:

"The quest to annihilate the people of Palestine began long before October 7. Someday it will meet its final end, and people the world over will get to work distorting the past. This unsparing reporting on the mass murder in Gaza will make their task more difficult" - @erikmbaker.bsky.social

“This book is a must-read...It demands serious reflection and soul-searching, but above all, action to stop the continued ethnic cleansing and slaughter of the Palestinian people with our tax dollars. This book could not be more timely and urgent." - Dan Kovalik

The nightmare begins again. How did we get to this point?

BLOWING UP EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL: ISRAEL'S EXTERMINATION OF GAZA is now available for pre-order: www.skyhorsepublishing.com/arcade-publi...

Tariq Ali laments the ‘decline of the street-fighting left’ Pally with Bertrand Russell and Mick Jagger, begging to get on the roof of a house in Hanoi to shoot at the final futile waves of Operation Rolling

"The question needs to be turned around. Not 'Why did you stick to your guns?' but '"Why did you give up your guns so easily?'"

My latest on Tariq Ali's late career and tending the radical flame, for @thetls.bsky.social

They told you what they were doing while they did it.

Thrilled (and humbled) to announce my book on the Gaza nightmare will be out in April

reupping this for no particular reason and definitely not because it says something about the band of rubes who rule us

Save The Prince Charles Cinema The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...

#SaveThePCC

Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.

For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;

you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...