David Robinson

📉❗ 🇷🇺 Russia just recorded its first decline in the total number of shops in 25 years. Moscow lost 4,500 stores, St Petersburg - nearly 2,000. Russians are tightening their belts as food inflation stays high & the economy slows - GDP growth fell to just ~0.9% in 2025. Even the pandemic & 2022 didn’t hurt offline retail this badly, acc. to @MoscowTimes. Corporate losses already hit a record❗$82B in early 2026 data. The sharpest decline hit non-food retail - especially clothing, footwear & accessories stores, along with communication salons, small electronics outlets & DIY/building materials shops. This year expects even larger-scale closures as the economy has lost momentum & consumer demand continues to weaken. #MakeRussiaPay Photo: @MoscowTimes

No candidate for office who wants to be taken seriously on foreign policy - or ethical leadership - should make this mistake again, period.

And like many Israeli laws, i.e the Jewish Nation State Law, settlements,, it codifies something that was already being done in practice

@AbujomaaGaza @DrHananAshrawi these people are straight out evil

After passing a law to execute Palestinians, extremist jewish minister ben gvir celebrates outside the knesset, saying: “Soon we will count them one by one.”

Israeli kanagaroo courts have a 99% conviction rate against Palestinians. Now theyre imposing the death penalty as part of sentencing. It goes w/o saying this punishment won’t b applied to Jewish IsraelIs. But pls cut our mics again when we say apartheid. apple.news/A1B-1NQqBROWoh…

Israel passes bill mandating death penalty for Palestinians convicted of lethal acts of terrorism haaretz.com/israel-news/is…

@Catta_SCT @TheWorldMayor @nathanxromeo @FOXFOOTY off to the optician for you, Xerri gets three weeks

@Dayfidd @TheWorldMayor @nathanxromeo @FOXFOOTY No it wasn’t, I watched it 10 times Not once did I actually see blood, why didn’t McGrath remonstrate with the umpires that blood had been wiped on him?

"A bizarre moment. A moment of madness." 😮🔥 Multiple weeks' suspension❓ Tristan Xerri is set to come under fire for a bizarre blood-wiping incident labelled a 'horrible look'. DETAILS 👉 bit.ly/40Vxjt4

@NekiWeb3 @SkySportsF1 this year we’re going to see who the best driver in the McLaren team really is, no nurse maiding for him

@SkySportsF1 looked sharp in testing already showing gains

Has Oscar Piastri raised his game over the winter break? 🤔

Barbara Pocock says oil & gas co’s are “raking in wartime profits” & calls on Labor to introduce a 25% gas revenue tax. Says govt has support of The Greens to legislate which could raise $17 Billion p/yr “Workers should not be paying more than a massive gas corporation”💥#auspol

“The longer we delay implementing a gas export tax . . . as our gas giveaway tracker shows, every day of delay cost tens of millions of dollars in lost revenue," said Dr Richard Denniss, co-CEO at The Australia Institute. Read more: theaus.in/3Nvftdq

Voting in Death Amid War: Israel pushes on with its execution bill for Palestinian prisoners, in a worrying policy shift... jrnl.ie/6995065

@TheAnaBraga X has labeled this as sensitive and won’t let me see it unless I provide my age Been getting a lot of this lately, suspect a lot of it is not sensitive at all Not providing my age to this shit hole

Good morning. How do you like this kitty mocking MAGA hillbillies? 😹

🚨Heartbreaking: A young girl, Shaimaa, survived an Israeli airstrike in Gaza that killed her entire family and left her with amputations to her arm and leg. She now faces life alone, carrying both the physical and emotional scars of this attack. She is not alone in this suffering, thousands of children in Gaza are enduring similar loss, injury, and trauma.

Israel murdered every single person in this photo today in South Lebanon. Every. Single. One. 2 journalists 7 paramedics 1 Lebanese soldier They bombed the journalists’ vehicle — then bombed them again when paramedics rushed to help.

@hanna97477 they only lost by a goal to Lightning last week and Donnell W had to throw a last second two for her team to win Thunderbirds dismantling every team they’ve played so far

I don't know how Kiri keeps her job if their season doesn't improve. Her decision making is also so. . . #FIRvTHU

There are no words that can truly hold the grief I feel right now. Israel killed @ftounifatima. I watched you grow over the years into one of Lebanon’s most fearless journalists, and I will always be proud to have called you my friend. Seeing you report the unimaginable loss of your own family in an Israeli strike broke my heart and made me fear for your safety in a way I never had before. I so desperately wish that fear had been unfounded. May you now find peace, reunited with your family and your brother who we lost today with you. Rest in peace, Fatima. You will never be forgotten.

Tania Obst says in changing team on court nobody’s done anything wrong just wants to give Firebirds something to think about What? Apart from getting their butt kicked? It’s possible TBirds is the best combination of players in whole netball world at the moment #FIRvTHU

🚨 REPORT | Israel has launched over 1,000 airstrikes on Gaza in the 167 days since the “ceasefire” was signed last October. And less than 25% of the minimum required aid has entered Gaza in the past week. The Palestinian resistance documented 2,166 violations of the ceasefire since it began in October, averaging 13 violations per day, including widespread live fire, artillery, and aerial attacks across the Strip. 📌 A document obtained by Drop Site, and shared with mediators, shows the following: ▪️ On the ground: • 1,014 airstrikes and shelling incidents recorded • 799 live fire incidents • Repeated strikes across Rafah, Gaza City, and northern Gaza • Children wounded in drone fire in multiple areas ▪️ Casualties: • 692 killed • 1,895 wounded • 44.2% of those killed are children, women, and elderly • 54.3% of the wounded are vulnerable civilians ▪️ Aid blockade: • Only ~40% of agreed aid allowed in • Fuel deliveries at just 14.8% • 993 trucks entered this week vs. 4,200 scheduled (23.6%) ▪️ Rafah crossing: • Only 2,134 of 8,600 planned civilian crossings carried out (24.8%) • Medical evacuations and humanitarian cases severely restricted The report also cites continued obstruction of infrastructure repairs, denial of heavy equipment entry, and ongoing torture and abuse of detainees, pointing to a systematic erosion of the ceasefire and worsening humanitarian conditions across Gaza.

Journalist Courtney Bonneau reporting from Lebanon: “Americans, your taxes are being used to kill unarmed men, women and children.”

Israel has just killed Lebanese journalist Fatima Ftouni. I am honoured to have known her. Just at the beginning of the month she reported on Israel killing seven members of her own family live on air.