Reposted by Derek EdwardsDr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Language of Trump translated. 1116
Reposted by Derek EdwardsJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026On the £36m Reform donation, Rachel Millward, deputy Green Party leader, says: "Farage is bought and paid for. Reform won't do a thing that this billionaire doesn't like. Their support is draining away because it's so clear they're working for the same super rich elites they pretend to be against." 621072
Reposted by Derek EdwardsGill Tavner @gilltav.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Where’s the outrage about spoiling holidays, blocking ambulances or people going to funerals or appointments, or working class people struggling to work? Oh - of course - these masked morons aren’t a threat to oil and defence industries. I’m frightened of the direction UK is heading. 225845
Derek Edwards @derekedwards.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Ken Dodd sang this version a long time back: When I was just a little boy I asked my father what will I be. Will I be handsome? Will I be rich? No, you’ll be bald like me. 010
Derek Edwards @derekedwards.bsky.social · 13/08/2026And Keith Richards originally (first album) called himself Keith Richard, after Cliff. Not a lot of people know that. 🙂 020
Derek Edwards @derekedwards.bsky.social · 25/07/2026The bars don’t align with the scale at the bottom. The differences are even larger than they look! 010
Reposted by Derek EdwardsJonathan Pie @jonathanpienews.bsky.social · 14/06/2026A Trillion Dollars. For tickets to see my new live show go to JonathanPie.com. youtu.be/PZEH1NxbyCk?...youtu.beA Trillion DollarsYouTube video by Jonathan Pie 1020397
Reposted by Derek EdwardsAndrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Heartening. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukBelfast protest: Thousands gather for anti-racism rallyProtesters gather at Belfast City Hall for a demonstration against racism, after the past week of violence and disorder. 621452
Reposted by Derek EdwardsGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/06/2026History shows us there are 2 options when faced with a rising far right. 1. Deal with it quickly and decisively. 2. Let it win. The great majority reject it. But it doesn't need majority support: just enough thugs to intimidate everyone else. Weakness and indecision by government let it rise. 311066397
Reposted by Derek EdwardsMichael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Nigel Farage Listens to the News 10449741892
Reposted by Derek EdwardsAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Dear BBC journalists, you really do not have to 'debate' every far-right talking point that pops up on your X feed. It is not "deeply contentious" to suggest non-white people can't be English. It's racist. The word you're looking for is racist 542261714
Reposted by Derek EdwardsSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/06/2026None of these tax dodging, foreign-based crypto billionaires and moneymen give a single shit about our country or democracy. They’re buying Farage power so he’ll remove our rights and protections to maximise their profits. It really is that simple and that corrupt. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...mirror.co.ukReform UK handed another £3million from crypto billionaire as donations soarFigures from the Electoral Commission show Nigel Farage's party is raising millions more than their political rivals through private donations, including £3million from Christopher Harborne 25835381
Reposted by Derek EdwardsGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/06/2026If you say "I support Palestine Action", they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on the news. 6743651524
Reposted by Derek EdwardsRos Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Google seems not to realise that I do not use Google search so that Google can tell me things. I use it to get to other, more reliable sources of information. You'd think we'd be starting to chafe at the control big tech companies have over what we see. 1517134
Derek Edwards @derekedwards.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Presumably he needed security because he was walking around with 5 million quid on him. 0100
Reposted by Derek EdwardsMartyn @martynpedler.com · 02/05/2026"The octopus on your plate can feel pain, delay gratification, and probably outthink a toddler. Just something to consider before you order."psychologytoday.comLove Eating Octopus? You Might Want to Read This FirstThe octopus on your plate can feel pain, delay gratification, and probably outthink a toddler. Just something to consider before you order. 831302489
Reposted by Derek EdwardsAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Almost all of the questions the Today programme put to Nigel Farage this morning were with a right wing framing. Even the question on his plan to import ICE to the UK was about whether it would cost too much 54700188
Reposted by Derek EdwardsRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Interesting reference just now to "the left-leaning Daily Mirror" on the Today Programme. I hope this practice is going to become routine, & that we'll be reminded of the political affiliations of The Daily Telegraph, The Mail, The Sun, The Express & The Times. It would actually be quite healthy. 891817453
Reposted by Derek EdwardsChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Here they are: our two top Iran negotiators. No diplomatic experience. In way over their head. Both with massive financial conflicts of interest, their fortunes tied to the Middle East dictators that make them rich. What a disaster. 1137164354798
Reposted by Derek EdwardsSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/04/2026He's going to wipe out a civilisation but also help the people of Iran. And the regime is completely new and more reasonable but also need to be wiped out. He might as well be dribbling. 626339
Reposted by Derek EdwardsDr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 02/04/2026You wrote a novel using AI? Cool. It's like that time I ran a marathon using a Ford Focus. 812608659
Reposted by Derek EdwardsJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 28/03/2026Again, the allegation here has to be left unsaid because the moment you spell it out it makes no sense – to affect the result here the claim needs to be that Gorton and Denton was full of Muslim women who wanted to vote Reform, but were coerced by their husbands into voting Green instead. 37757219
Reposted by Derek EdwardsOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Your occasional reminder that X is a disinformation machine run by a very dangerous idiot whose GROK increasingly spreads batshit conspiracy theories... And no sane person or anyone concerned with truth and decency should be on it. 1238498
Reposted by Derek EdwardsGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/03/2026McCarthyism is back with a vengeance on both sides of the Atlantic, with major government clampdowns on people challenging official narratives. Yet we hear not a peep from those who get so exercised about students not wanting fascists to speak at universities. Cos that's the real threat, isn't it? 641268
Reposted by Derek EdwardsAndrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 28/02/2026Remember: Donald Trump created this crisis. He walked away from the Iran nuclear deal that was working, promising a "better deal." He didn't deliver. He escalated, abandoned real diplomacy, and has now led us into a conflict that puts us all at risk. 8331731009
Reposted by Derek EdwardsMatthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 28/02/2026There is always a tweet. 252516924
Reposted by Derek EdwardsRonald Hartz @ronaldhartz.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Stefan Collini in 2013: "Future historians ... will at least record that, alongside its many other achievements, the coalition government took the decisive steps in helping to turn some first-rate universities into third-rate companies." #HigherEd #UKHE www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...lrb.co.ukStefan Collini · Sold Out: The Costs of University PrivatisationFuture historians will record that, alongside its many other achievements, the coalition government took the decisive... 21916
Derek Edwards @derekedwards.bsky.social · 09/02/2026An interesting, amusing, and also deadly serious insight into the vagaries of “AI”. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comI asked AI to name my wife. To the hopelessly incorrect people it cited, my deepest apologies | Martin RowsonAuthors, a newsreader, a lawyer and an esteemed colleague: they’re all great – but I’m not married to any of them. Can we really depend on this technology, asks cartoonist and author Martin Rowson 020
Reposted by Derek EdwardsSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/01/2026I’m sure Indian billionaire, Sunny Varkey, wants to give Farage a ton of cash to improve the lives of the people of Clacton. And definitely not to lobby for crypto or fossil fuels or to have first dibs on the firesale of British assets (eg the NHS) that Farage is bartering for power. FFS wake up UK. 25659355
Reposted by Derek EdwardsAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 28/01/2026No response yet from Reform pundit and activist Tim Montgomerie about his party's selection in Gorton and Denton 30854265
Reposted by Derek EdwardsBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/01/2026By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying. 695298466971
Derek Edwards @derekedwards.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Starmer “can leave Nigel Farage marooned on the wrong side of public opinion, fanboy to the man who insulted Britain’s war dead. Starmer can cast Reform as the party in thrall to Trump, and Reform’s opponents as the true defenders of Britain’s sovereignty and independence.” Let it be so. 010
Derek Edwards @derekedwards.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Carney at Davos: “we negotiate from weakness. We accept what is offered. We compete with each other to be the most accommodating. This is not sovereignty. It is the performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination.” — and thus dies the myth of Brexit. 130
Reposted by Derek EdwardsJo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 19/01/2026OMG, he actually did the ‘I can’t be sexist, my wife is a woman’ line. 33962176
Reposted by Derek EdwardsBylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 11/01/2026Researchers warn UK has a “finance curse” – an oversized sector extracting wealth instead of creating it. If Britain wants to feel better off again, we need a financial system that invests in the real economy – not one that gambles with it. Andrew Curry explains @eastangliabylines.co.ukeastangliabylines.co.ukWhere did the money go – we offer some answersWe are a leading economy but this isn't reflected in how we feel. The UK has fallen behind other countries on many metrics 1017464
Reposted by Derek EdwardsAlex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 04/01/2026If Trump’s concern was drugs, he’d not have pardoned Honduras’s corrupt leader; if terrorism, he’d have gone after Iran; if world order, Russia; if preserving US power, China. If democracy, human rights or humanitarian motive, dozens of other worthy cases. What’s left is oil. And Epstein. 33883273
Reposted by Derek EdwardsScabbyhabby @scabbyhabby.bsky.social · 23/12/2025This year’s Presidential Christmas card. 28880731713
Reposted by Derek EdwardsJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 18/12/2025As per a quote tweet: "You can’t blame online misinformation when you’re a news channel. Parsing the quality of sources is the entire job." Otherwise you are just a propaganda network. 1959
Reposted by Derek EdwardsOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Welcome to the UK where a right wing academic seeks to defend a man who wrote: 'Head for the hotels housing them and burn them to the ground.' By describing that incitement as "anti immigration" 711317398
Derek Edwards @derekedwards.bsky.social · 24/11/2025www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comShabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik 100
Derek Edwards @derekedwards.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Rosie Holt is so brilliant at sailing so close to the edge that some people think she’s actually a Labour politician. Scary that Labour are so crap on this issue that it’s plausible! 000
Reposted by Derek EdwardsSocial Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 08/11/2025This sounds like both an admission of guilt and a rallying cry to complete the January 6 attack and install a dictatorship and make their rule permanent. 412841