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

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 13h
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 · 14h
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 · 15h
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...
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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 18h
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 · 1d
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 · 1d
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.

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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 · 4d
"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
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David Burrows @dbfamilylaw.bsky.social · 4d
@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 · 4d
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 · 4d
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 · 4d
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.

Reposted by Emili García‐Berthou, David Burrows

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 5d
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

Reposted by David Burrows, Neil Lee, Molly Scott Cato

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 7d
At the Budget, the Green Party's message is clear: Cut Bills. Tax Billionaires.

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Councillor Minesh Parekh @mineshparekh.bsky.social · 8d
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 · 15d
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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 · 15d
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…

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David Burrows @dbfamilylaw.bsky.social · 18d
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Labour and the ECHR
The (slightly tidied-up) text of a speech I gave to the Labour Movement for Europe rally at Labour Conference on 28 September
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David Burrows @dbfamilylaw.bsky.social · 20d
Hypocrisy of English/Welsh libel laws open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
Oligarchical law: How the UK punishes the critics of China, Russia, and US corporations
Labour turns from the people's party into the lawyers' party
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David Burrows @dbfamilylaw.bsky.social · 22d
A story of two mini-Trumps www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
President JD Vance or Marco Rubio? We’re seeing the first signs of the battle over Trump's succession | Simon Tisdall
It’s currently a two-horse race – and the next US leader is guaranteed to be a careerist who knows nothing of statesmanship, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
www.theguardian.com

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 27d
Yesterday on 28 October 1938, some 200-300,000 people lined the Avinguda Diagonal in Barcelona to say farewell to the International Brigades. Some 35,000 fought against fascism in Spain. 9,000 never returned home. You won't be forgotten.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 28d
Delighted with this:
‘For anyone who cares about the Spanish Civil War, this book is a literary— +visual—treat. And for anyone who wants to see how history can be brought alive by going to the places where it happened, it’s a superb model’
Adam Hochschild
www.hurstpublishers.com/book/travels...
Travels Through the Spanish Civil War | Hurst Publishers
A revelatory journey into the Spanish Civil War’s physical and visual legacies, investigating how conflict is memorialised, and obscured, today.
www.hurstpublishers.com

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David Burrows @dbfamilylaw.bsky.social · Oct 23
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Domestic abuse: an introduction to family proceedings legislation – Part 2
How does the law deal with domestic abuse in family proceedings?
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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · Oct 23
You’ve probably heard of the phrase “time immemorial” as a general term for events that happened a very long time ago, but in fact, it has a specific meaning, and this year is its 750th anniversary.

www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/tim...
Time Immemorial turns 750: The Medieval law that froze history at 1189
You’ve probably heard of the phrase “time immemorial” as a general term for events that happened a very long time ago, but in fact, it has a specific meaning, and this year is its 750th anniversary.
www.ianvisits.co.uk

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · Oct 22
A letter from the age of truth. Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley. We need more of this in our public discourse. Call vile ideologies and the people who peddle them out for who and what they are.
Dear Sir Oswald, Thank you for your letter and for your enclosures. I have given some thought to our recent correspondence. It is always difficult to decide on how to respond to people whose ethos is so alien and, in fact, repellent to one's own. It is not that I take exception to the general points made by you but that every ounce of my energy has been devoted to an active opposition to cruel bigotry, compulsive violence, and the sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy and practice of fascism. I feel obliged to say that the emotional universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us. I should like you to understand the intensity of this conviction on my part. It is not out of any attempt to be rude that I say this but because of all that I value in human experience and human achievement. Yours sincerely, Bertrand Russell

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · Oct 22
Chatting Trump, Musk and the radicalisation of the right with @mollyjongfast.bsky.social

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David Burrows @dbfamilylaw.bsky.social · Oct 22
The problem is that the amendments to CA 1989 s 1 taken as a whole do not create a 'presumption' The other varied provisions add up to a variety of anti-abuse provisions. They just need to be threaded together
giffordhead.co.uk Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · Oct 22
The big problem with all of this is that s.1(2A) did not make any perceivable difference when enacted and so I cannot imagine its repeal would otherwise.

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Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · Oct 22
The big problem with all of this is that s.1(2A) did not make any perceivable difference when enacted and so I cannot imagine its repeal would otherwise.

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David Burrows @dbfamilylaw.bsky.social · Oct 22
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Finding a presumption where there may be none: Part 1
Repeal of a domestic abuse ‘statutory presumption’
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · Oct 22
Pleased to be part of this hugely significant legal challenge. The Boris Johnson Govt first suppressed the Russia report & then refused to act on it. As evidence mounts of Putin’s hybrid warfare, it’s vital that we can be confident in the robustness of our democratic systems
UK Russian interference case heads to 'Europe's Supreme Court'
THREE former MPs have lodged a case with “Europe’s Supreme Court”, accusing the UK Government of failing in its duty to protect elections from…
www.thenational.scot

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · Oct 22
The problem with Labour only blaming the Brexit deal, rather than Brexit itself, is that Farage and Reform will do exactly the same. So with both parties blaming Johnson and the Tories for the Brexit damage, but both still promising to "make Brexit work", how can there be any change?
#BlueLabour
Nothing else has worked – so Starmer and Reeves are finally telling the truth about Brexit | Rafael Behr
It is the right way to go, but taking the long way round to such an obvious point has cost Labour precious time and credibility, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
www.theguardian.com