Hamish Mackay

Deputy digital editor @guardian

[Hamish Mackay @HamishMackay]

How are we supposed to sleep tonight??

[Hamish Mackay @HamishMackay]

What a night

[Hamish Mackay @HamishMackay]

@DarrenArsenal1 Brighton when he should have lobbed keeper form edge of the box.

[Kim Leadbeater MBE MP @kimleadbeater]

Delighted to welcome Olivia Field as the new CEO of Jo’s Foundation. Looking forward to working with her and the rest of the team @JoCoxFoundation ahead of the 10th anniversary of Jo’s murder to remember my sister and champion the values she held💜

[Olivia Field @oliviamayafield]

Honoured to be appointed CEO of @JoCoxFoundation as we mark the 10th anniversary of Jo’s murder - a vital moment to strengthen communities & remember we have more in common than that which divides us.

Join us for next year’s #GreatGetTogether and beyond 👇

[The Jo Cox Foundation @JoCoxFoundation]

We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Olivia Field as our new CEO, starting in January.

Olivia will lead the Foundation into our tenth-anniversary year, including our 10th Great Get Together on 19-21 June 2026.

🔗Read more about her appointment: https://t.co/G2hkQEfsuc

[Steve Race MP 💙💛 @steveracemp]

Mishal Husain is one of the standout current affairs broadcasters of our time.

Even if she weren’t, “listen love, you’re trying ever so hard” is a deeply disrespectful way to talk to any woman - or anyone.

[Hamish Mackay @HamishMackay]

@MirrorDarren Manager too scared to watch, star striker too scared to take

[James Marriott @j_amesmarriott]

Purely anecdotal but ambient phone addiction seems way more severe than even five years ago. Everyone on public transport hypnotised by TikTok or Instagram Reels. The rise of short form video - the crack cocaine of smartphones.

[Shayan Sardarizadeh @Shayan86]

Grok is once again misleading X users. When asked to find the source of this viral image of a girl seeking food in Gaza, Grok incorrectly said that the photo shows a Yazidi girl fleeing ISIS in Syria in 2014, leading to many users repeating Grok's inaccurate claim and calling for the viral image to be community noted.

In reality, this image is from Gaza. It was captured by AP photographer Abdel Kareem Hana at a community kitchen in Gaza on 26 July, which can be easily established by a reverse image search.

AI chatbots, including Grok, are not fact-checking tools and should not be used for that purpose, particularly in relation to breaking and developing events.

[Colin Millar @Millar_Colin]

This photo of a starving girl in Gaza was uploaded to AP yesterday by photographer Abdel Kareem Hana https://t.co/nAdm8eqnyI

A different image of the same girl https://t.co/6AolnB9wFq

This is the full photo gallery https://t.co/LIAj1bsQIo

Quite a sinister misrepresentation.

[Olivia Field @oliviamayafield]

Bringing care close to home & under one roof makes sense. But reading the 10 Year Plan today I’ll look for crucial details – will it:

Meet non-medical needs too?
Break down siloes across/beyond health?
Tackle health inequalities?
Be properly funded?

👇1/4

[Adam Boulton @adamboultonTABB]

This is not just about trade. The enormity of what is happening with the return to power of an “America First” president should not be overlooked.
https://t.co/TAlBE8POPm

[Hamish Mackay @HamishMackay]

@DailyAFC @wettbasis @drsportsmedia is he drunk?

[Hamish Mackay @HamishMackay]

@olliecarroll @guardian Hi Oliver. It's not a quote from the Russian foreign ministry, it's reporting from AP reporters on the ground in Kursk. If you click on the link that is explained in the post pinned at the top

[Hamish Mackay @HamishMackay]

@suttonnick @SkyNews Congrats, Nick! Good luck with the new role

[Hamish Mackay @HamishMackay]

BBC News app notifications going mad - just had the same one five times in 2 mins...unless it's just my phone?

[Toby Muresianu 🇺🇦 @tobyhardtospell]

Lol it really worked

[Harjap Singh Bhangal @HarjapBhangal]

Scenes at Edgbaston where India are playing Pakistan but people are watching the England game.

2 sets of rival supporters united by their love of England!

#PakvsInd #ENGSUI #comeonengland #england

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

USA media dishes brutal truth about Brexit Britain

“Every decision taken by Tory (and @LibDems) governments was a political decision—it did not need to happen that way. Austerity was never the hard logic of dutiful caretakers; it was a political calculation to rescue rich friends and dump the burdensome price on those least able to endure the cost.”

“There is mold in the walls and shit in the rivers, posh butter in the supermarkets has anti-theft tags stuck to it, the trains run on schedule about half the time, the average pub-poured pint of lager—the blood of the nation—is nearing the criminal price of 5 pounds ($6.34), and on May 22 a new general election was announced to the people of Great Britain by a prime minister who is richer than the king. 

“Should the polls prove correct—short of a 2016-scale error—the annihilation will be justified. Wage growth is at its lowest level since the Napoleonic Wars. What the Financial Timescalls the “rental market” and what the rest of us call “How much of your money someone richer than you takes every month” is stratospherically inflated; rent is about half a person’s average salary in London. Chain stores on British high streets close permanently at a rate of 14 per day, leaving most shopping areas a procession of corrugated shutters, uncollected rubbish, and the sleeping bags of the homeless.

“The precious marvel that is the National Health Service is cracking at the seams; at the current rate, waiting lists will not be cleared for another 685 years. The union for junior doctors, the BMA, has organised 10 strikes and walkouts in the past year for a pay deal that would only bring wages up to the current level of inflation. The city of Birmingham was the first to tip over into bankruptcy; more will follow.

“In 2022, at least 3% of all families in Britain—around two million people—could not afford to eat. Like a revenant from Dickens, Victorian diseases like scurvy, rickets, and scabies are back to blight children.

“Life expectancy has dropped to the lowest level since 2010—tellingly, the year the Conservatives took power, at the height of the recession.”

“These are the bitter fruits of austerity: an experiment in sado-monetarist economics and financial barbarism. Not much unites those five PMs other than the constant ritual tribute in blood to their coiffed icon, Margaret Thatcher. Yet Thatcher, back in the 1980s, did not lie about how brutal the first shock of neoliberalism was going to be. She coldly promised torture before riches.

“Its sequel, however, was pitched by its architect George Osborne, chancellor under David Cameron, as a bit of belt-tightening resembling that most prized memory in the national canon: the Blitz Spirit. Come on, chaps, buck up and give it some welly. The shattering of society into thinner fragments was supposed to be a hardy adventure. 

“Midway through this downhill plummet, Britain bumbled backward out of the EU. The wreckage of this four-year disaster can now best be seen as an attempt to escape the harsh bite of austerity.

“Brexit was a retreat from hunger into myth: an embrace of antique fables about British pluck and derring-do, a belief that even without an empire and an industrial base this archipelago might reclaim past glory. Faced with profound turmoil, much of the nation turned to a half-remembered falsehood about their grandfather’s generation, marching along with Churchill. This election is the reckoning Brexit postponed.

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