Derek Edwards
@derekedwards.bsky.social
Emeritus professor; language and social interaction; Discursive Psychology; Guitars; Photography; Liverpool FC; Socialism. Probably not in that order.
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.
November 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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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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.
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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.
Great cover!!! 🙂👏
The cover has arrived! Emotionography!
Emotions studied as they’re done in interaction - displayed, taken up, used.
@alexahepburn.bsky.social
Emotions studied as they’re done in interaction - displayed, taken up, used.
@alexahepburn.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Great cover!!! 🙂👏
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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.
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.
November 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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.
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.
November 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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.
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Realized I never said "unquote" after reciting a famous poem in 10th grade. Sorry if you thought everything I've said since is Shakespeare
May 18, 2023 at 3:18 PM
Realized I never said "unquote" after reciting a famous poem in 10th grade. Sorry if you thought everything I've said since is Shakespeare
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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
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
www.tandfonline.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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
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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Come across Conversation Analysis and want to know more?
Loughborough University's annual online CA for Beginners workshop is on Jan. 15, 2026.
Talks, group work & data sessions with experts.
Registration (£45 or £90) is now open.
More information here
emcawiki.net/CA_for_Begin...
#EMCA
Loughborough University's annual online CA for Beginners workshop is on Jan. 15, 2026.
Talks, group work & data sessions with experts.
Registration (£45 or £90) is now open.
More information here
emcawiki.net/CA_for_Begin...
#EMCA
CA for Beginners January 2026 - emcawiki
emcawiki.net
October 22, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Come across Conversation Analysis and want to know more?
Loughborough University's annual online CA for Beginners workshop is on Jan. 15, 2026.
Talks, group work & data sessions with experts.
Registration (£45 or £90) is now open.
More information here
emcawiki.net/CA_for_Begin...
#EMCA
Loughborough University's annual online CA for Beginners workshop is on Jan. 15, 2026.
Talks, group work & data sessions with experts.
Registration (£45 or £90) is now open.
More information here
emcawiki.net/CA_for_Begin...
#EMCA
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Absolutely amazing. Where you gonna go Matt? Hope they don't treat you like shit for some irrational reason.
'Get rid of the migrants or I'll become a migrant' is quite the argument
October 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Absolutely amazing. Where you gonna go Matt? Hope they don't treat you like shit for some irrational reason.
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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....
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
media.tenor.com
October 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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....
Break out the flags lads....
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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.
October 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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.
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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?
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?
October 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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?
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?
October 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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?
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A meme for the modern university...
September 29, 2025 at 8:44 PM
A meme for the modern university...
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness…! 🙂
September 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness…! 🙂
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What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Former Observer big-hitters inc @carolecadwalla.bsky.social launch new title The Nerve with redundancy payouts
After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...
After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...
Former Observer big-hitters launch new title with redundancy payouts
Five former Observer journalists including Carole Cadwalladr have launched their own culture publication using their redundancy money.
pressgazette.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Always thought that was an interesting implication, that Orcs had the concept of a ’menu.’ Like they usually ate out in restaurants, and chose their favourite hors d’oeuvres.
September 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Always thought that was an interesting implication, that Orcs had the concept of a ’menu.’ Like they usually ate out in restaurants, and chose their favourite hors d’oeuvres.
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Every pundit who took at face value the idea that the Right sincerely cares about free speech, or ideological diversity, or in fact has any principles at all, should be wearing a dunce cap and writing a lengthy mea culpa right now. Not for our catharsis but for public awareness at least
September 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Every pundit who took at face value the idea that the Right sincerely cares about free speech, or ideological diversity, or in fact has any principles at all, should be wearing a dunce cap and writing a lengthy mea culpa right now. Not for our catharsis but for public awareness at least
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Women against the far-right launch
"Women dare to tread and to speak where the prime minister does not"
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...
"Women dare to tread and to speak where the prime minister does not"
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...
Women against the far-right launch
"Women dare to tread and to speak where the prime minister does not"
northeastbylines.co.uk
September 15, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Women against the far-right launch
"Women dare to tread and to speak where the prime minister does not"
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...
"Women dare to tread and to speak where the prime minister does not"
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...
Lovely to see you looking so happy. 🙂
Celebrating our 22nd Wedding Anniversary (a couple of days late) tonight! @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
We got married in Canada in 2003 - 11 years before it was lawful in England & Wales. We lost our marriage equality case in the High Court in 2006 - but we're on the right side of history!
Cheers!
We got married in Canada in 2003 - 11 years before it was lawful in England & Wales. We lost our marriage equality case in the High Court in 2006 - but we're on the right side of history!
Cheers!
August 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Lovely to see you looking so happy. 🙂
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The real 'two tier' divide in British politics is between the wife of a Conservative councillor calling for refugees to be burnt alive, being treated as a brave 'political prisoner', and the protestors calling for the end of mass starvation and genocide, being treated as domestic terrorists
'Anywhere But Here': How Britain's Anti-Migrant Media Consensus Is Crowding Out the Truth
Britain's longstanding traditions of tolerance and compassion are being suppressed in favour of a media-driven campaign of anti-migrant hate
www.adambienkov.co.uk
August 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The real 'two tier' divide in British politics is between the wife of a Conservative councillor calling for refugees to be burnt alive, being treated as a brave 'political prisoner', and the protestors calling for the end of mass starvation and genocide, being treated as domestic terrorists
This is disgusting, and surely counterproductive. Starmer and co have totally lost the plot.
More awful Labour Party adverts on FB getting 1000s of frustrated and angry replies, mostly criticising how they pander to and use the language of Reform.
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social
August 16, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This is disgusting, and surely counterproductive. Starmer and co have totally lost the plot.
