David Mead
@seethingmead.bsky.social
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
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
Come work with me, in this beautiful listed building* alongside some really cracking Criminology colleagues**
#LAWJOBS
#CRIMINOLOGYJOBS
vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/19...
* it doesn't look like that all year round obviously...today it's like a monsoon has hit
** & supposedly the ghost too
#LAWJOBS
#CRIMINOLOGYJOBS
vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/19...
* it doesn't look like that all year round obviously...today it's like a monsoon has hit
** & supposedly the ghost too
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Come work with me, in this beautiful listed building* alongside some really cracking Criminology colleagues**
#LAWJOBS
#CRIMINOLOGYJOBS
vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/19...
* it doesn't look like that all year round obviously...today it's like a monsoon has hit
** & supposedly the ghost too
#LAWJOBS
#CRIMINOLOGYJOBS
vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/19...
* it doesn't look like that all year round obviously...today it's like a monsoon has hit
** & supposedly the ghost too
Probably not your thing Katrina, but I present Matt Berninger…
November 13, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Probably not your thing Katrina, but I present Matt Berninger…
Never trust the short hand summary...despite what these amendments are called, the new offence will be committed by far more than making representations...the offence is committed by being in place X with a persuasive purpose
Nothing need (yet) have been said
Nothing need (yet) have been said
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Never trust the short hand summary...despite what these amendments are called, the new offence will be committed by far more than making representations...the offence is committed by being in place X with a persuasive purpose
Nothing need (yet) have been said
Nothing need (yet) have been said
Exactly two years’ worth and if you delve into stats, today’s three-goer takes my average to a fraction under 4 for the period
November 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Exactly two years’ worth and if you delve into stats, today’s three-goer takes my average to a fraction under 4 for the period
Nicola from Girls Aloud helping me through my Display Screen Equipment and Healthy Working Environment training ...
November 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Nicola from Girls Aloud helping me through my Display Screen Equipment and Healthy Working Environment training ...
Is there a better way to supervise a doctoral thesis than early doors Friday pint of cracking session ale at The Waterworks in Rye…
October 31, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Is there a better way to supervise a doctoral thesis than early doors Friday pint of cracking session ale at The Waterworks in Rye…
Dungeness Lighthouse and Nuclear Station, this morning
October 31, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Dungeness Lighthouse and Nuclear Station, this morning
Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage, Dungeness, this morning
October 31, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage, Dungeness, this morning
This is madness
The difference is so palpable
It was said of Johnson who was PM at at time when laws his Govt passed, he himself broke
Not council planning bye-laws passed by a third party
But hey, water off a ducks back when the Tory press go a-hunting
The difference is so palpable
It was said of Johnson who was PM at at time when laws his Govt passed, he himself broke
Not council planning bye-laws passed by a third party
But hey, water off a ducks back when the Tory press go a-hunting
October 29, 2025 at 10:22 PM
This is madness
The difference is so palpable
It was said of Johnson who was PM at at time when laws his Govt passed, he himself broke
Not council planning bye-laws passed by a third party
But hey, water off a ducks back when the Tory press go a-hunting
The difference is so palpable
It was said of Johnson who was PM at at time when laws his Govt passed, he himself broke
Not council planning bye-laws passed by a third party
But hey, water off a ducks back when the Tory press go a-hunting
I have next to me on the armchair this…though quite why either of the Ms S-Ms decided to buy it is beyond me
Seems tat of the highest order
Seems tat of the highest order
October 28, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I have next to me on the armchair this…though quite why either of the Ms S-Ms decided to buy it is beyond me
Seems tat of the highest order
Seems tat of the highest order
vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/18...
Come join me and my good chums in the Law School here…
This is where we work
You could even work with me, trying - sometimes succeeding - to convey the joys of Public Law to 1st years
Come join me and my good chums in the Law School here…
This is where we work
You could even work with me, trying - sometimes succeeding - to convey the joys of Public Law to 1st years
October 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/18...
Come join me and my good chums in the Law School here…
This is where we work
You could even work with me, trying - sometimes succeeding - to convey the joys of Public Law to 1st years
Come join me and my good chums in the Law School here…
This is where we work
You could even work with me, trying - sometimes succeeding - to convey the joys of Public Law to 1st years
@dreddieclark.bsky.social
We’re all Albo today
Let’s get this trending, photos of 1960s kids wearing JD
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
We’re all Albo today
Let’s get this trending, photos of 1960s kids wearing JD
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
October 28, 2025 at 11:32 AM
@dreddieclark.bsky.social
We’re all Albo today
Let’s get this trending, photos of 1960s kids wearing JD
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
We’re all Albo today
Let’s get this trending, photos of 1960s kids wearing JD
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Except “Mr Bates…”
October 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Except “Mr Bates…”
Busy times ahead...I have just heard I have the go-ahead for this new book project...200,000 words by 2028
I'm very pleased to have their support
The two referees were very positive...so if this they are reading this thank you
Neither though was keen on title...so there may be discussions ahead
I'm very pleased to have their support
The two referees were very positive...so if this they are reading this thank you
Neither though was keen on title...so there may be discussions ahead
October 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Busy times ahead...I have just heard I have the go-ahead for this new book project...200,000 words by 2028
I'm very pleased to have their support
The two referees were very positive...so if this they are reading this thank you
Neither though was keen on title...so there may be discussions ahead
I'm very pleased to have their support
The two referees were very positive...so if this they are reading this thank you
Neither though was keen on title...so there may be discussions ahead
I’d started supporting them only a few months before - about the time they won the title, just before my 8th birthday
Oh how I thought the future would all be footballing sunlit uplands!
How I was wrong within three years
Oh how I thought the future would all be footballing sunlit uplands!
How I was wrong within three years
October 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I’d started supporting them only a few months before - about the time they won the title, just before my 8th birthday
Oh how I thought the future would all be footballing sunlit uplands!
How I was wrong within three years
Oh how I thought the future would all be footballing sunlit uplands!
How I was wrong within three years
I would very likely take this to my desert island over say a Wodehouse, a Coe or a Mitchell
It has given me no end of fun and laughs for 30+ years
It has given me no end of fun and laughs for 30+ years
October 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I would very likely take this to my desert island over say a Wodehouse, a Coe or a Mitchell
It has given me no end of fun and laughs for 30+ years
It has given me no end of fun and laughs for 30+ years
Good grief…it’s still somehow 0-0
This is a goalless thrashing so far
This is a goalless thrashing so far
October 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Good grief…it’s still somehow 0-0
This is a goalless thrashing so far
This is a goalless thrashing so far
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness
October 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness
Is one of them “tolerance of difference” and another “expansive personal freedom and autonomy unless demonstrable harm to another” and another a “fear of an overarching intrusive state”?
Not all necessarily mine but I’m sure many would agree these are British values
Not all necessarily mine but I’m sure many would agree these are British values
October 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Is one of them “tolerance of difference” and another “expansive personal freedom and autonomy unless demonstrable harm to another” and another a “fear of an overarching intrusive state”?
Not all necessarily mine but I’m sure many would agree these are British values
Not all necessarily mine but I’m sure many would agree these are British values
The Pub Landlord “British bar food …only got to make an exception for the peanut” wins every time
October 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The Pub Landlord “British bar food …only got to make an exception for the peanut” wins every time