Mike UTB

Husband, father, photographer, cricketer & football fan (Boro). Favourites and retweets are not endorsements, nor do they necessarily reflect my views. UTB

[Dan 🇮🇪 ✡️ @danielthemate]

To be clear, the higher ups know that it is not safe for the Israeli team to play here because people here are radicalised. It wouldn't be safe for Israeli fans or team.

This is where we are in 2026 ireland. The media and political class rile everyone up with libels about israelis to justify racism against Israelis, and then move the match because they know the likelihood of violence is high.

We played Qatar and Afghanistan recently in various sports without any issues. And other countries (even ones perceived as anti-israel) have had matches with Israel without any problems. But in Ireland the rhetoric is uniquely one sided and uniquely hateful amongst the mainstream.

[Alessandro Riolo @aledeniz]

Had this gentleman continued to live in Britain instead of moving to Switzerland and then Monaco, he would have paid – like me and millions more – 50% or more of his income to the British revenue. Give or take, this would have been around £250 million.

It would likely have saved me less than half a pound per year, so I am not particularly bitter with him for not doing it, but surely his statements are surprising given the observed behaviour.

[Jorge Liboreiro @JorgeLiboreiro]

Ireland is battling a PR nightmare over its continued sales of alumina to Russia.

The scandal comes as Dublin prepares to take the reins of the EU Council presidency.

Here's what's happening.
https://t.co/vNYJBlwq27

[Heidi Bachram @HeidiBachram]

The whitewashing of Palestinian terrorist leader Marwan Barghouti continues apace with Massive Attack inviting his son to speak in Germany. I think there’s something particularly grotesque hearing a crowd there cheer for the murderer of Jews.

[Gabriel Epstein @GabrielEpsteinX]

Gazan football player Ahmed Mohammed Hassan Abu al-Atta (ID#: 802500777, age 34), whose death alongside his family in a June 2024 airstrike was reported worldwide, including by Reuters, was a deputy platoon commander in the rocket unit of PIJ's Gaza Brigade. 🧵

[Cytrus 🍋 @cytrusf1]

Monaco was shit at racing again...so let's go again:

Fixing Monaco - simple version:

-Extend the Portier over the roundabout
-Make Nouvelle Chicane more of a Monza T1
-Move the Fangio statue (was moved once before), and open up the Antony Noghes

[Lucy Biggers @LLBiggers]

Videos from the WHO connecting mundane weather events to climate catastrophe may lead to an increase in:

🙁 emotional distress
😣 anxiety
😭 grief
😖 suicidal behaviour

[Dr Jennine Morgan @jemmm85517813]

Historical proxy records of climate show temperature rises first & CO2 follows. But climate modelllers ignore this important data.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: Sirens have sounded near the Gaza border; Hamas has launched a barrage of rockets at Israel.

So far, Iran, the Houthis, Hamas, and Hezbollah have launched rockets at Israel.

Yet, the media will somehow make the Islamists who started this the victims.

[Nicole Lampert @nicolelampert]

Chilling first person piece from a teacher about what is going on inside our classrooms:

‘The buzzword has changed. It is no longer on trend to call a teacher racist. Now students are mumbling words and phrases under their breath, such as ‘Heil Hitler’ or answering questions in fake, over-the-top German accents. One student went as far as presenting a Hitler salute in class, which, when questioned, he said he was merely stretching. Attaining evidence to follow up on behaviour with consequences is proving nigh impossible in the current climate.’

Full piece below.

[Robert Colvile @rcolvile]

'He combines unlimited distrust of the rich with unlimited trust in the state to redistribute their assets wisely.' My review of Piketty's economic thinking, which was frankly an awful lot more fun to write than the book was to read https://t.co/upEfH07488

[HLTCO @HLTCO]

Gianni Infantino taking a corner.

No more words are necessary.

[Heidi Bachram @HeidiBachram]

I just watched Hasan Piker interviewed on @LBC and you can see why he was banned from the UK. Here he claims that Hamas didn’t intend to murder Jews on October 7. He even excuses the massacre as merely making the “occupation as costly as possible”. Despicable man.

[Retard Finder @IfindRetards]

Retard is worth $450 million and isn't spreading it all around.

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

Intellectuals keep getting seduced by the idea of a one world government. Even, in a space colonising future, a one solar system government. All of humanity organised under a single polity.

This is a polity you cannot leave. It will forcibly prevent you. Like East Germany.

If people like this ever succeed in shutting down the foot vote in this way, their system had better be perfect or they have condemned us to hell. Of course, they have immense faith in their own intelligence and benevolence. But those wiser than them with a grasp of history don’t share it.

[Football Heritage @footyheritage]

On this day in 1990, Italia ‘90 kicked off.

It opened with a bang - one of the biggest shocks in World Cup history happened 💥

Cameroon beat defending champions Argentina 1-0 thanks to a goal from François Omam-Biyik.

[HistoryandHeritageYorkshire @GenealogyBeech]

🧵3 posts. On 8 June 1405, a large crowd gathered outside York's walls near the nunnery of Clementhorpe to witness the execution of Richard Scrope, Archbishop of York, Thomas Mowbray and Sir William Plumpton who were beheaded for treason. Scrope reportedly asked the executioner

[F1 TROLL @f1trollofficial]

Kim Kardashian taking the towel meant for Kimi Antonelli after the race in Monaco and wiping her head with it

[Handre @Handre]

Western governments have engineered the greatest anti-natal program in human history, and most people are completely unaware of the causes or consequences.

Birth rates across Europe, East Asia, and North America have collapsed below replacement levels. Governments systematically destroyed the economic foundations that make family formation possible.

You cannot afford children when the state inflates away your purchasing power, taxes your income at confiscatory rates, then forces you to fund the retirements of previous generations through Social Security ponzi schemes. A middle-class American couple faces effective marginal tax rates exceeding 50% when you include federal income tax, state tax, payroll taxes, property taxes, and sales taxes. Meanwhile, monetary debasement ensures that housing costs consume 40% of median income versus 15% in 1970.

The regulatory state makes every aspect of child-rearing exponentially more expensive. Occupational licensing cartels inflate childcare costs. Zoning laws prevent affordable family housing. Department of Education mandates drive up school costs while destroying quality. FDA approval processes make basic medicines cost 10x their market price. Each regulation serves entrenched interests while pricing out young families.

Economic policy shapes demographics. When governments prioritize immediate consumption over capital formation, present voters over future families, and welfare recipients over productive workers, birth rate collapse becomes inevitable. The state subsidizes the childless while penalizing parents through the tax code and monetary policy.

Politicians promise family tax credits and paid leave programs to solve the crisis they created. They offer you breadcrumbs from your own stolen wealth while maintaining the very policies that make children unaffordable. The solution requires abolishing the systems that broke family formation, not expanding them.

[David Collier @mishtal]

BREAKING: Iran has just restarted the war with Israel.

Ballistic missile attack.

Expect very little coverage from our media - and lots of putting it in the context of an "Iranian response"...

Until Israel fights back...

Then our media will pretend Israel is the bad guy.