David Burrows

Today's woodpecker performing a metaphor

Less than 2.5 secs of the Wren's morning, slowed down.
Always investigating, peering & calculating the odds.
As the temperature falls, the wren looks for aquatic invertebrates more & more.
Freshwater shrimps (amphipods), must be rich in proteins & other nutrients you would imagine.
#wrens 🦉 #ponds

Shabana Mahmood’s asylum reforms will not ‘unite a divided country’ Making asylum status temporary and eroding family rights will undermine Britain’s commitments to international law and create further divisions

Shabana Mahmood’s asylum reforms will not ‘unite a divided country’

Making asylum status temporary and eroding family rights will undermine Britain’s commitments to international law and create further divisions

sussexbylines.co.uk/politics/sha...

Keir Starmer Slams 'Wild Promises' Made By Brexiteers In Outspoken Attack The prime minister also took aim at those who now want the UK to leave Nato and the European Convention on Human Rights.

Better late than never we guess

Starmer Slams 'Wild Promises' Made By Brexiteers In Outspoken Attack

Starmer said it had harmed the economy and led to “the degradation of political debate”.

He also took aim at those who now want the UK to leave Nato and the European Convention on Human

‘Unavoidably unfair’: the secret courts system hearing part of Palestine Action case The CMP system means Huda Ammori will not be allowed to know what allegations were made against her

‘Unavoidably unfair’: the secret courts system hearing part of Palestine Action case
The CMP system means Huda Ammori will not be allowed to know what allegations were made against her. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...

How truly ignorant she is. The protestant movement was to encourage the poor laws in the 16/17 centuries (and before)

Jesus ate the loaves and fish himself

Putin’s poodle

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"

“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...

This handsome and feisty praying mantis near Tarragona yesterday. Mantis religiosa in Spanish, Pregadeu in Catalan.

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.

How to solve child poverty in the UK. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

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

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.

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...

Close relationship between US and Canada 'has ended': prime minister - Raw Story www.rawstory.com/canada-unite...

Never apologise. Never explain.
But always say thanks.
You'll be welcome again.

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

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....

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/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

Oh but why Labour leave it so long.... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Maybe she, Patel and Braverman should all be in Reform UK?

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.

Mahmood seems not to understand the need for kindness www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/mps-dem...

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?

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)

At the Budget, the Green Party's message is clear: Cut Bills. Tax Billionaires.

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?

Maybe.

Or maybe the court realises this will be a judgment which requires a “strong bench”.

Courts can be like the first dance at Jack Rabbit Slim: you never can tell.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

Farage’s kind of traitor Nathan Gill, Vladimir Putin and the betrayals of the right

"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
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