David Mead
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
- Doesn’t the political and moral misjudgement amount simply to this We cannot be responsible for our friends and their actions It is laudable to be loyal even when accusations start flying as we should presume innocence until proven otherwise
- Turmeric is a bugger for staining isn’t it Even my once a day healthy turmeric and ginger tea manages it
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- I’m at a real loss to understand how/why ICE thinks Italian immigration or customs policy is somehow anything to do with the US? If - which seems 99.9%unlikely - undocumented (say) Venezuelan immigrants sought access to the US through infiltrating the luge team, that can be dealt with at US border
- Reposted by David MeadMike Gordon: The Mandelson Scandal and the Prime Minister: Investigating a Breach of the Ministerial Code ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/02/05/m...
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- Exactly my point from three years ago …an AI replacement makes more sense than a new MP, 18 months in…ex Royal Marine or not
- Two tickets going for @bunnymen.com UEA, Weds 4 March Face value so £90 the pair I’d bought in hope disabled access space for my wife came free but none
- Clear from that interview that Baroness Helena Kennedy does not have good grasp - off the top of her head admittedly - know the constituent elements of misconduct in public office
- Thought of you @storiesfromjack.bsky.social cc @crwerren.bsky.social
- “Jaywalking is permitted in London. In 1966, the police tried to crack down on it, but gave up after three months.” People walk and cycle on roads by right, people drive under licence. Jaywalking is not a thing in English law and Waymo must not change that. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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- Reposted by David MeadSpectacularly misses the point that unilateral government action to freeze the level at which repayment starts means that students are facing repayments quantatively different from those they signed up to, but never let the facts get in the way of a Telegraph rant about "low quality degrees":
- I don’t suppose anyone has any idea of when judgment in the PA proscription JR is/likely to be handed down?
- It’s a bloody long way from Mandela to Mandelson
- The former Peter of Mandelson
- House clearance news…. My good mate Si and I ran the sixth form Politics Society in 1985, and we hosted our then MP, Sir Ian Gow for a debate Sir Ian was murdered a few years later by an IRA car bomb
- The foulest meal I’ve ever had was as a German exchange student in 1982 in the Rheinpfalz: Himmel und Erde….heaven and earth Main meal of mashed potato and stewed apple That was it
- Anyone explain these strange KO times?
- House Clearout I
- I have ltd traction on here compared to the good old days of Twitter but all help gratefully received I am clearing out my dads house in Sussex today I’ve taken two crates of unopened tins etc to Sainsburys for food bank but… Anyone got any ideas who might take part-used…coffee, tea, pasta etc?
- Good Lord, I thought last year’s Today programme obsession - the trans rights debate - but 2026 is saturated with “children & social media” It’s everywhere, oozing out of every journalistic pore 06:00-09:00, never an opportunity lost But I’m yet to hear:put the burden on the socmedia not children
- Quite 1. And people who don’t go to university will bear the cost of having fewer GPs, high street lawyers, and teachers through lack of graduates 2. If we’re on costs following benefits as our normative analytical framework, we need to think about a graduate employer tax
- This is such a facile argument. Sure, let's have a conversation about how universities should be funded. But let's also talk interest rates, debt that functions like an extra tax, repayment thresholds, and what that's actually doing to millions of young people who did everything they were told to do
- Reposted by David MeadThe Public Law Lecture 2026 - "Substantive Principles of Public Law: What Happened After 1987?" will be delivered by Lord Justice Singh at the London School of Economics on 11/03. Further details and sign up here: eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
- “Unfair and not true” boo-hoos the man who brought us this disgusting piece of political campaigning a decade ago…
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