David Nathan Robins (17 November 1944 – 6 October 2007) was a British journalist, author, and sociologist who was closely associated with the 1960s and 70s counter-culture.
He was educated at Kilburn grammar school and then studied English at University College London.
He married the Canadian art historian Anna Gruetzner Robins.
[1] In the mid 1960s, through a chance meeting with Barry Miles, Robins became an editor at the underground newspaper IT.
[1] In the 1970s, Robins became concerned that disaffected young people were moving towards far right causes and began to take a serious interest in them, beginning to write books on the subject and in the 1980s working with The Prince's Trust.