David Mead
seethingmead.bsky.social
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
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
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
November 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Probably not your thing Katrina, but I present Matt Berninger…
November 13, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 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
November 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Nicola from Girls Aloud helping me through my Display Screen Equipment and Healthy Working Environment training ...
November 2, 2025 at 5:44 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…
October 31, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Dungeness Lighthouse and Nuclear Station, this morning
October 31, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage, Dungeness, this morning
October 31, 2025 at 2:03 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
October 29, 2025 at 10:22 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
October 28, 2025 at 8:50 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
October 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
@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...
October 28, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Except “Mr Bates…”
October 26, 2025 at 7:36 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
October 24, 2025 at 2:26 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
October 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
October 22, 2025 at 11:47 AM
October 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
October 21, 2025 at 9:25 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
October 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
October 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Good grief…it’s still somehow 0-0

This is a goalless thrashing so far
October 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness
October 21, 2025 at 6:30 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
October 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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