Derek Edwards
derekedwards.bsky.social
Derek Edwards
@derekedwards.bsky.social

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

Psychology 39%
Communication & Media Studies 27%

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Farage is in Dubai hosting a lunch for Indian billionaire Sunny Varkey, the latest non-UK resident to back Reform.
Farage Seeks Support at Dubai Lunch Backed by Indian Billionaire
Nigel Farage hosted a private lunch event in Dubai on Tuesday with the backing of Indian billionaire Sunny Varkey, underscoring the Reform UK party’s embrace of wealthy donors based in the United Arab...
www.bloomberg.com
No response yet from Reform pundit and activist Tim Montgomerie about his party's selection in Gorton and Denton
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.

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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As the world finally punches back, was this the week Donald Trump went too far? | Jonathan Freedland
As the world finally punches back, was this the week Donald Trump went too far? | Jonathan Freedland
The US president took his bullying doctrine to Davos and hit a wall of opposition. If this creates a new western alliance against him, all to the good, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com

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.
OMG, he actually did the ‘I can’t be sexist, my wife is a woman’ line.

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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
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
eastangliabylines.co.uk
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.
This year’s Presidential Christmas card.

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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.
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"

Excellent and devastating put-down of Shabana Mahmood’s immigration policies by Nesrine Malik.

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!
Labour MP says only way to unite UK over immigration is by leaning into Reform narrative.
Labour MP says only way to unite UK over immigration is by leaning into Reform narrative.

Great cover!!! 🙂👏
The cover has arrived! Emotionography!
Emotions studied as they’re done in interaction - displayed, taken up, used.
@alexahepburn.bsky.social
The cover has arrived! Emotionography!
Emotions studied as they’re done in interaction - displayed, taken up, used.
@alexahepburn.bsky.social
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.

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Farage has been consistent for 15+ years.

Opposing decent pay and conditions for ordinary hard-working young people and expectant parents.

Meanwhile, he makes a mint hawking bullion, presenting tv shows and flying to the USA to big up his interests - instead of serving his constituents.

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So many disappointing parts to this story of heroism and bravery for those of a far right persuasion. Firstly the attacker wasn’t Muslim or a refugee and secondly the selflessness of the person doing his job who saved so many lives was a Muslim. How will they cope in this difficult time.
'Get rid of the migrants or I'll become a migrant' is quite the argument
How did a high-stakes meeting between Trump, Vance& Zelenskyy turn from diplomacy to open confrontation?
Lotte van Burgsteden, @christelvaneck.bsky.social &I unpack conversational polarisation as it unfolded live in the Oval Office. @polcommjournal.bsky.social contains link to transcript #openaccess
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So you've got a Canadian "journalist" covering the trial of an Irish citizen, who lives in Spain and whose costs are being covered by a South African born migrant living in the United States.

Break out the flags lads....
a man in a blue shirt is standing in front of a door with the words " england " on it
ALT: a man in a blue shirt is standing in front of a door with the words " england " on it
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Watching the Bibi & Don Show treat this like some grand victory, while people returning to northern Gaza dig the rubble for loved ones' remains, is pretty revolting.
Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

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I'm sorry to harp on, but how can Kemi Badenoch *possibly exist* in a party alongside a guy who complains about not seeing enough white faces. How is that possible?