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David Burrows
@dbfamilylaw.bsky.social
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Solicitor advocate, jurist and law writer. European. Once of Bristol, now living in France, in Burgundy

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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 1h
Putin’s poodle

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2h
“She is doing things that I think are letting this country down".

Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Alf Dubs Accuses Shabana Mahmood of 'Letting the Country Down' With Plans to Outdo Reform on Asylum
The veteran Labour peer and lifelong campaigner for child refugees, Alf Dubs, tells Byline Times that the Home Secretary's plans are "bitterly disappointing coming from a Labour Government"
bylinetimes.com

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 4h
This handsome and feisty praying mantis near Tarragona yesterday. Mantis religiosa in Spanish, Pregadeu in Catalan.

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Sue Stone @knittingknots.bsky.social · 18h
Close relationship between US and Canada 'has ended': prime minister - Raw Story www.rawstory.com/canada-unite...
Close relationship between US and Canada 'has ended': prime minister
The "close relationship" between the United States and Canada has ended, according to its prime minister, Mark Carney. In an appearance to announce a series of economic measures to help and protect th...
www.rawstory.com

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David Burrows @dbfamilylaw.bsky.social · 19h
The problem of Britain’s future relationship with the EU can’t be reduced to technical adjustments and border mechanisms when the whole geopolitical order is in tumultuous flux @rafaelbehr.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre....
Rachel Reeves has many problems. She’s realising that her Brexit bind may be the biggest of all | Rafael Behr
Brutal economic realities are prompting a shift in Labour’s tone on Europe. But will it dare tell the whole truth about Britain’s predicament, asks Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
www.theguardian.com

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David Burrows @dbfamilylaw.bsky.social · 19h
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The two-child limit is abolished at last. Watch out for the narrative that will follow | Frances Ryan
The right is already in a frenzy about the migrant groups it thinks will benefit – and the budget contained other trade-offs, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
www.theguardian.com

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David Burrows @dbfamilylaw.bsky.social · 19h
Oh but why Labour leave it so long.... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The two-child limit is abolished at last. Watch out for the narrative that will follow | Frances Ryan
The right is already in a frenzy about the migrant groups it thinks will benefit – and the budget contained other trade-offs, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
www.theguardian.com

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Paul Magrath writer @maggotlaw.bsky.social · 19h
Never apologise. Never explain.
But always say thanks.
You'll be welcome again.

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 20h
How to solve child poverty in the UK. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
How to solve child poverty | British Politics and Policy at LSE
Contrary to conventional wisdom, increasing parental employment would make little difference to child poverty rates overall.
blogs.lse.ac.uk

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David Burrows @dbfamilylaw.bsky.social · 22h
Maybe she, Patel and Braverman should all be in Reform UK?

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David Burrows @dbfamilylaw.bsky.social · 22h
Mahmood seems not to understand the need for kindness www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/mps-dem...
MPs demand answers on asylum reform
Justice select committee queries need to establish new appeals body and where money to fund early legal advice is coming from.
www.lawgazette.co.uk

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d
Rachel Reeves says this Labour Governments decisions are "necessary."

Why is it always necessary to hit the living standards of the 99%?

When are we going to make the necessary decisions about extreme wealth?

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d
Alongside many campaigners, the Green Party have absolutely dragged the Labour Government to finally end the child cap.

Labour politicians disgracefully defended it for far too long.

This shows why the Green Party membership rising and rising matters.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Reposted by Gavin L. Foster, David Burrows, Alison Phipps

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d
The 50 wealthiest families own more wealth than the bottom 50% of the population.

How can this Labour Government say this is a "cost of living" budget and refuse to tax the rich?

They care about protecting power and wealth. And cost of living is a buzz phrase for them. Dire.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 2d
What a week: now writing both in defence of juries and against the military following unlawful orders.

Depressing that both points are contested, but you have to take law and policy topics as you find them.

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Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 2d
Seeing the comments about Swift J, isn't the joke about former Treasury Devils that they often give the government a harder time than other judges?

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 2d
The judge due to rule on the proscription of Palestine Action is swapped last minute for a panel that includes a judge with a history of working for the government and another who ruled in favour UK selling jets to Israel.

Accusations of a “stitch-up”.

novaramedia.com/2025/11/25/a...
A ‘Stitch-Up’: Palestine Action Case Gets New Judges | Novara Media
The judicial review of Palestine Action’s proscription has been thrown into turmoil by a last-minute change. A new panel of judges includes one with a long history of working for the government and an...
novaramedia.com

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 2d
American brigader Alvah Bessie at Darmós, Catalonia, April 1938. In his right pocket is one of his field notebooks, later collected in his "Spanish Civil War Notebooks" Vivid, immediate descriptions which I really enjoyed (and which later formed the basis for his famous memoir Men in Battle)

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David Burrows @dbfamilylaw.bsky.social · 3d
Home secretary told MPs that migrants challenging removal would have only one hance to claim and one appeal. That appeal would be heard by ‘a new appeals body staffed by professional independent adjudicators’. www.lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-a...
Holding the line against tyranny
The rule of law is part of our national culture - but it is a culture that is now under threat.
www.lawgazette.co.uk

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 4d
Only ‘ancient history’ in the sense that being a Russian asset is part of Farage/Reform’s DNA.

The links, bribes and shared goals of weakening the UK/EU with Brexit. Driving our country into an angry, racist, impoverished dead end that they can then exploit for power.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reform UK's Zia Yusuf calls Nathan Gill 'ancient history'
The party's head of policy says he has never met Nathan Gill, who served as the leader of Reform UK in Wales in 2021.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Nick Cohen @nickcohen.bsky.social · 6d
"Farage’s kind of traitor"
Long read from me on what the willingness of Farage’s lieutenant to work for Putin for money tells us about the radical right
(Free to read but please subscribe if you can)
Farage’s kind of traitor
Nathan Gill, Vladimir Putin and the betrayals of the right
open.substack.com

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David Burrows @dbfamilylaw.bsky.social · 6d
@richardmoorhead.bsky.social, who leads the research, said defence lawyers sidestepped rather than addressed their clients’ assertions and focused solely on advising them to plead guilty www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/post-of...
Post Office scandal: Some defence lawyers 'defeatist'
Lawyers were outgunned, out of their depth or uninterested in what clients had to say, academic report reveals.
www.lawgazette.co.uk

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6d
Covid bereaved call for Boris Johnson to lose ex-PM benefits over inquiry report
Covid bereaved call for Boris Johnson to lose ex-PM benefits over inquiry report
Campaign group says it will pursue all legal means to ensure personal accountability for ‘grave betrayal’ Covid-bereaved families have called for Boris Johnson to lose access to public funds and said they will pursue all legal options for personal accountability after a damning report into his handling of the pandemic. The families said they want all privileges Johnson receives as a former prime minister, including his ministerial pension, his place on the privy council and access to the public duty costs allowance, to be withdrawn. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 6d
Nadine Dorries to LBC, "I saw Boris Johnson at his best at that time (at the start of the covid pandemic)"

If this was Boris Johnson's best, can you imagine his worst?

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 7d
All those journalists - led by Kuenssberg and Peston - who cheer-led Boris Johnson into Number 10 should be hanging their heads in shame today, and retiring tomorrow.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 7d
Excellent from @gilestremlett
"Even today, Franco serves as a warning that outward mediocrity is no barrier to the ruthlessly ambitious." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Spain has too rosy a view of Franco’s regime. Let’s remind ourselves of its horrors | Giles Tremlett
Little is taught about the murderous, incompetent dictatorship – and now almost one in five young people say Franco was good for the country, says historian Giles Tremlett
www.theguardian.com

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 9d
At the Budget, the Green Party's message is clear: Cut Bills. Tax Billionaires.

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Councillor Minesh Parekh @mineshparekh.bsky.social · 10d
Evil is the only word I have that can sum up today's announcements.

This is a gift to the far right - creating infrastructure to facilitate mass deportation, legitimising racism and state violence.

Everyone involved in this, from Starmer to McSweeney to Mahmood, needs to go.

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David Burrows @dbfamilylaw.bsky.social · 17d
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If you care about the BBC, stand up and defend it: this could be the beginning of the end | Polly Toynbee
Replacing the TV licence with a means-tested alternative may help disarm the right of one of its most effective weapons, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 17d
Some of the more common varieties of the more than 200 olives across Spain. I know most but certainly not all. Here in Catalonia, the tasty little arbequina, often on our taula.
Source: lalomamarket.es/mapa-de-espana…