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David Mead

@seethingmead.bsky.social

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Professor of UK Human Rights Law, UEA: public order/protest/policing/free speech/human rights Poor but inveterate punster.Converse collector. Law, politics, Derby County, & music Man of Sussex in exile…still fighting the forced East/West partition of ‘72

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 9h

I wish more academics would openly recognise when stepping out of their own lane - into an area in which they are not expert or unbelievably well versed - but nonetheless offer an informed view based on their wider experience and knowledge as the basis for a discussion

Mark Elliott @profmarkelliott.bsky.social · 10h

New post | On China, the Official Secrets Act and 'enemies': Is the Prime Minister wrong?
publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/10/08/o...

On China, the Official Secrets Act and ‘enemies’: Is the Prime Minister wrong?

The Prime Minister has claimed that his government’s hands are tied in relation to whether China constituted an ‘enemy’ for the purpose of a now-dropped criminal prosecution under…

publiclawforeveryone.com

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Mark Elliott @profmarkelliott.bsky.social · 10h

New post | On China, the Official Secrets Act and 'enemies': Is the Prime Minister wrong?
publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/10/08/o...

On China, the Official Secrets Act and ‘enemies’: Is the Prime Minister wrong?

The Prime Minister has claimed that his government’s hands are tied in relation to whether China constituted an ‘enemy’ for the purpose of a now-dropped criminal prosecution under…

publiclawforeveryone.com

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 12h

Nice

David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 12h

The irony of labelling Film Studies a Mickey Mouse degrees is simply lost on these people…

..and in a post modern way, how apt is that

David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 12h

Post-modern irony 101

An actual demonstration of a puppet judge

David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 12h

“But that’s a puppet”

“Oh no he’s not, he’s Lord Chancellor in waiting …and waiting ..and waiting”

Ithangyew

David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 13h

David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 23h

Big shout out @jim1902adams.bsky.social on R4 World Tonight to Aylsham High for its SEN work

David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 23h

That was very good

A favourite but underrated comedy sketch shows

Stoney-bridge

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Netpol @netpol.org · 1d

Netpol's 'State of Protest' report for 2024 launched with a stark title: ‘This is Repression’. On the second anniversary of the continuing genocide in Gaza, it is hard to know what we will call our assessment of protest rights for 2025.

Perhaps ‘An End to Our Illusions’? netpol.org/2025/10/06/a...

Photo of protesters opposing the ban on Palestine Action, Trafalgar Square, London, 4 October 2025

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 1d

These are not serious, defensible policies by Jenrick (especially) but others - sacking judges, deporting 150,000 per year etc but they’re not intended to be

They’re bluster-bollocks aimed at headlines and clicks, the desperate vacuous promises of the jilted lover seeking to win back favour

David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 1d

I liked it better when he fell in the freezer in Bejam

One for the older listener there

David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 1d

Total agree Colin

David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 1d

Something by me from 2024….

David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 1d

www.bbc.com/news/uk-poli...

Minister Robert Jenrick ordered painting over of child asylum unit murals

Robert Jenrick is reported to have considered the cartoon images in the Dover centre too welcoming.

www.bbc.com

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 1d

Strangely and it’s a big assumption on my part Colin, there’s no problem in judges who once acted as counsel for big plcs sitting in the Employment Tribunal…?

Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 1d

More in the breathless, breaking stop-the-presses, and not at all confected story, that judges, before they were judges, were involved in practising law. Take 5 seconds to appreciate just how hard into "swivel-eyed loon" Robert Jenrick is being allowed to lean:

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 1d

Of course my own institution had upgraded campus cards to include a WiFi thing

Of course it didn’t tell anyone

Of course people got locked out of the building

Of course it’s now on us to order a new one, find time to traipse across to collect one

Of course of course of course

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 1d

The UK’s got 99 problems

I’m sure the Sentencing Council ain’t one

David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 1d

Won’t someone think of poor old Brit Ian, distant relative of Swiss Toni

David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 1d

Le Ttuce lasted longer than Lecornu

David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent news

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 2d

Poor old Brit Ian…a patriotic Mondeo Man

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Jack Jones @storiesfromjack.bsky.social · 2d

Working on research of direct relevance to this - police responses to JSO slow marches both sides of the Regs Suella Braverman introduced in 2023 that unlawfully brought in a similar power.

It would be the largest expansion in general assembly/procession regulation since 1986.

#protest #law

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 2d

Very nice, Jim