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David Burrows @dbfamilylaw.bsky.social · 10h

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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

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 10h

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…

David Burrows @dbfamilylaw.bsky.social · 3d

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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 · 5d

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 · 7d

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

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 12d

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.

Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 13d

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
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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.

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David Burrows @dbfamilylaw.bsky.social · 18d

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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 · 19d

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.

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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.

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 19d

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

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 19d

Chatting Trump, Musk and the radicalisation of the right with @mollyjongfast.bsky.social

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David Burrows @dbfamilylaw.bsky.social · 19d

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

Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 19d

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.

Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 19d

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.

David Burrows @dbfamilylaw.bsky.social · 19d

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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 · 19d

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…

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 19d

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

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ICLR @iclr.bsky.social · 19d

ICLR's Reportability Criteria: Learn more about how our law reporters decide whether or not a case will be reported by the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales:
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David Burrows @dbfamilylaw.bsky.social · 19d

Best for the child open.substack.com/pub/rozenber...; though I am not at all sure the confused redrafting of Children Act 1989 s 1 means what the government and some lawyers think it means...

Best for the child

One parent or two? It depends on the parent

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Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social · 19d

Timeline refresh with a good news story: Eurostar are getting some double deckers, the first such on British railways since a 1949 trial. Maximum capacity over 1000 passengers so I hope they sort out the check-in at St Pancras!
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Eurostar orders first double-decker trains

They would be the first two-level high-speed trains to run through the Channel Tunnel.

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Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 20d

The government is proposing to repeal the statutory presumption, introduced in 2014, that both parents should remain involved in their children’s upbringing following a separation. A report in 2020 suggested it was putting children at risk of domestic abuse.

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Best for the child

One parent or two? It depends on the parent

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Hodge Jones & Allen Solicitors @hodgejonesallen.bsky.social · 20d

Dame Linda Dobbs DBE shattered ceilings in 2004 as the UK’s first non-white High Court judge.

A leader in law, a mentor to many, and a trailblazer whose impact still grows.

#BHM2025 #BlackHistoryMonth2025

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20d

One benchmark of a democracy is whether it is willing to hold those who have served at the very highest levels to account.

Can you imagine the United States ever doing something like this?

CNN @cnn.com · 20d

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy enters a prison in Paris on the first day of a five-year sentence https://cnn.it/4hvGEiD

David Burrows @dbfamilylaw.bsky.social · 21d

I'll go with common stonechat. My way into my French bird book is to google my expression in English and then go to the French version in my book. Stonechat foxed google, which gave me discussion en pierre

Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 21d

I am always slightly cautious about naming birds, generally preferring just "bird". People may assume from all the photographs that I actually know about them, which I don't.

Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 21d

I am always slightly cautious about naming birds, generally preferring just "bird". People may assume from all the photographs that I actually know about them, which I don't.

David Burrows @dbfamilylaw.bsky.social · 21d

And I thought I'd seen a slightly autumnal robin. We hear stonechats around here. I shall know better - that it's a stone-chat - next time I see one

Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 21d

Stonechat on a branch

A stonechat, with red-brown breast and brown head, sitting on a branch

Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 21d

Stonechat on a branch

David Burrows @dbfamilylaw.bsky.social · 21d

The same applies to judges. I am 'wholly convinced by' the complainant's case, I 'unhesitatingly believe' Ms X. Doth not the judge protest too much? Hyperbole only creates doubt where the judge would want there to be none

Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social · 22d

On the topic of "vigorously denying".

One of the first things a wise barrister teaches their pupil is to lay off the adverbs.
If an allegation isn't true, say you deny it, or just say it's untrue, and explain why. Vigour is not a substitute for evidence, and it makes you look a bit desperate.

Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social · 22d

On the topic of "vigorously denying".

One of the first things a wise barrister teaches their pupil is to lay off the adverbs.
If an allegation isn't true, say you deny it, or just say it's untrue, and explain why. Vigour is not a substitute for evidence, and it makes you look a bit desperate.

Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 22d

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Dear Labour @labourlist.bsky.social
( Although you don’t listen to anyone except multi millionaires )
We know ppl need houses - but do up old buildings, build on brownfield sites - not these treasured spaces,
You will never be forgiven if you do.

Developers encroach on 2,000-year-old Devon wetland citing ‘blockages’ to Labour’s housing plans

According to planning conditions, Wolborough Fen in Newton Abbot must be protected as groundworks are prepared for 1,200 homes

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 22d

Back street scene, Hulme, Manchester, 1950 (SSPL/Getty).

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