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
Wonder what 1st years and their parents think of this use of everyone’s time
November 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
but when there’s a whole set of wonderful administrative support colleagues, it does seem a strange use of skills and resources

but we needed to save millions so allowed them to take “voluntary” redundancy, there’s now nowhere near enough to keep the university going
November 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Good point - no idea

All UK discussion I’ve heard is premised on iPlayer
November 11, 2025 at 8:49 AM
We rewatched about four years ago

Splendid BBC work
November 8, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Sorry - I’m getting my NZ Andrews confused

The post I saw was by @acgeddis.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I just saw that, Andrew, in a post of yours

It puts me in a bind as I’m generally against location based restrictions but strongly believe (and have written about it previously) that there is a public/social value to politicians have protectable private lives/spheres
November 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Yes, Carl, agreed. Hogsback looks like it shouldn’t be…as if overly fizzy and insipid but I’ve always enjoyed it
November 5, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Of course proving that will be hard unless someone says something

Of course, it will be open to potential policing abuse
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Or, unless I’ve missed it, when they happened

There’s no back-end date that I can see

For that reason alone, I cannot see that passing muster on human rights basis before court
November 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
R v Taylor (Paul) 2001 EWCA Crim 2263
November 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I seem to recall an early days of the HRA challenge by committed smoker to smoking ban…or am I imagining it…of the “let’s have a punt” type like R v ???? the art 9 challenge to drug possession charge brought against a Rastafarian
November 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Absolutely Geoff when you think of say Hardman v R, almost anything can count

Costs of removal I’m sure specially referred to as damage in that or similar case
November 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM