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Derek Edwards

@derekedwards.bsky.social
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Emeritus professor; language and social interaction; Discursive Psychology; Guitars; Photography; Liverpool FC; Socialism. Probably not in that order.

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Language of Trump translated.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
On 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."
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Gill Tavner @gilltav.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Where’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.
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Derek Edwards @derekedwards.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
So good.
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Derek Edwards @derekedwards.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Ken 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.
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Derek Edwards @derekedwards.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
And Keith Richards originally (first album) called himself Keith Richard, after Cliff. Not a lot of people know that. 🙂
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Derek Edwards @derekedwards.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The bars don’t align with the scale at the bottom. The differences are even larger than they look!
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Jonathan Pie @jonathanpienews.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
A Trillion Dollars. For tickets to see my new live show go to JonathanPie.com. youtu.be/PZEH1NxbyCk?...
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A Trillion Dollars
YouTube video by Jonathan Pie
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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Heartening. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Belfast protest: Thousands gather for anti-racism rally
Protesters gather at Belfast City Hall for a demonstration against racism, after the past week of violence and disorder.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
History 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.
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Nigel Farage Listens to the News
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Dear 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
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
None 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...
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Reform UK handed another £3million from crypto billionaire as donations soar
Figures 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
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
If you say "I support Palestine Action", they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on the news.
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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Google 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.
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Derek Edwards @derekedwards.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Presumably he needed security because he was walking around with 5 million quid on him.
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Martyn @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."
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Love Eating Octopus? You Might Want to Read This First
The octopus on your plate can feel pain, delay gratification, and probably outthink a toddler. Just something to consider before you order.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Almost 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
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Interesting 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.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Here 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.
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Derek Edwards @derekedwards.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
A good, succinct account of events.
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Vincenzo Salvatore @ebaul.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
He'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.
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
You wrote a novel using AI? Cool. It's like that time I ran a marathon using a Ford Focus.
I wrote a novel using AI. Writers must
accept artificial intelligence -but we are
as valuable as ever| Stephen Marche
The Guardian
The,
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 28/03/2026
Again, 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.
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Derek Edwards @derekedwards.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
😆😆😆😆
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Your 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.
User invites Grok to remove "person who is still alive" from a photo of Michael Jackson and Epstein Only Jackson remains
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Derek Edwards @derekedwards.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Who does Trump think he is? Al Capone?
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
McCarthyism 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?
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 28/02/2026
Remember: 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.
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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
There is always a tweet.
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Ronald Hartz @ronaldhartz.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Stefan 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...
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Stefan Collini · Sold Out: The Costs of University Privatisation
Future historians will record that, alongside its many other achievements, the coalition government took the decisive...
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Derek Edwards @derekedwards.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
An interesting, amusing, and also deadly serious insight into the vagaries of “AI”. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I asked AI to name my wife. To the hopelessly incorrect people it cited, my deepest apologies | Martin Rowson
Authors, 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
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Person: say, i am alive.

Computer: I am alive.

Person: oh my god.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I’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.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
No response yet from Reform pundit and activist Tim Montgomerie about his party's selection in Gorton and Denton
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
By 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.
NYT push alert: "A person was shot dead today during a struggle with federal agents in Minneapolis, according to officials."
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Derek Edwards @derekedwards.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Starmer “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.
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Derek Edwards @derekedwards.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Carney 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.
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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
OMG, he actually did the ‘I can’t be sexist, my wife is a woman’ line.
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 11/01/2026
Researchers 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.uk
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Where did the money go – we offer some answers
We are a leading economy but this isn't reflected in how we feel. The UK has fallen behind other countries on many metrics
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
If 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.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
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Scabbyhabby @scabbyhabby.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
This year’s Presidential Christmas card.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
As 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.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Welcome 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"
Welcome to the UK. Where you
go to prison for 18 months for
anti-immigration tweets.


This is insane
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Derek Edwards @derekedwards.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
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Shabana 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
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Derek Edwards @derekedwards.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Rosie 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!
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 08/11/2025
This 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.
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Derek Edwards @derekedwards.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Great cover!!! 🙂👏
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