David Mead

Summary of the UK Government legal position: The legality of defensive action in respect of Iranian regional attacks Summary of the UK Government legal position: The legality of defensive action in respect of Iranian regional attacks

I’m not an international lawyer but I would have thought that the legal position - and thus advice - needs to account for the fact that the ongoing armed attack from B was itself a response to an action by our ally A

I got introduced to Welsh cakes by my then Merthyr girlfriend, first year at Girton Gareth …good lord they were wonderful

She got sent back every term with a couple of dozen her mum had made

VG

Oh, you mean black.

Why didn’t you say?

We’ve had a foreign born f***ing PM and you weren’t exactly gobbing off then, so sit down and shut up

And wouldn’t radical change be nice

I don’t mean “behead the King” but a little bit more redistributive tax and public ownership for the common good…?

Why does football allow a goal to be disallowed following an obvious accidental balltoarm by the goal scorer (Burnley-Barnes) but not penalise an equally obvious accidental balltoarm within penalty area by a defender (Man City-Nunez)?

Rule of law people like me value morally-defensible consistency

1. If VAR can’t determine a clear cut answer within 90 seconds, it’s not clear & obvious…so limit VAR review to that

2. Adopt rugby’s rule: is there a clear, good reason why the goal should not stand?

Why don’t shirts have a very last bottom button so that - let’s imagine - 58 year old law professors don’t show their tubby tummies if they stretch up above their head

Bloody typical …World War III the day *after* Derby’s record low points was overtaken

You’re having a bloody laugh Paul

Thirteen points?
You’re bloody joking

will be in Melbourne for a month, late March- late April kindly hosted by Deakin

I’d love to meet & chat to anyone about protest, public order, free speech & terrorism-y stuff

I’m keen to institute links & kickstart a more international protest law network, v broadly conceived

Please pass on

A wonderful achievement by Naomi Lloyd Jones.
Very honoured to be part of this.

There is also a round-table discussion and book launch in Melbourne on Weds. 25 March 17:00...details here, with Maria, Azadeh and me

lawasprotection.org.au/2026/02/1414/

There will be a Zoom screening for UK/European viewers, able to take the time-difference hit

International Law and the Regulation of Protest This book provides a systematic analysis of the international legal regime governing protest from a human rights law perspective. Through it, readers gain an introduction to the idea of protest and ho...

All #protest #FoAA #publicorder law lovers...

A cracking new book has just come out...why, yes, I do have a chapter in it
Edited by @mariaosullivan.bsky.social & @azdastyari.bsky.social

www.routledge.com/Internationa...

If Labour is going to wither and die, surely enough people near the top must think: better to go down fighting leftwards than right

Like Spurs … third in a two-horse race

I think they’re the last two knots you have to master to get your Scouts’ badge, both variations of a double bowline-hitch

We are looking for a #CriminalDefence Solicitor (2–3 PQE) to join our Protest & General Crime team based in #London.

If you are committed to social justice, confident in criminal litigation and ready to build your higher court advocacy experience, we would love to hear from you.

#LegalCareers

Screen Two - The Firm Drama about Bex, an estate agent with a seemingly respectable family life who is also a football hooligan leading a vicious 'firm' of thugs.

Lots of Screen Two drama gems now up

This is probably the pick, for me, plus David hare’s The Absence of War

Released on this day in 1989

Ditto Year of the Rabbit…Ch4 pulled plug on funding for second series in 2021 so it was left on cliffhanger

I decided late doors not to train it down to Brixton for the Beastie Boys on the Licensed to Ill tour, in May 1987 as I had a Trusts exam the following afternoon

The dullest decision I’ve ever made, and I’ve made a few

I remember watching that
I was 9

Yes, noticeable here too Eddie - far less able to distinguish reliability and verifiability and for want of a word “acceptability”

Are other (UK) public law colleagues noticing - maybe last couple of years - for UG students not to cite textbooks as authority or basis of a proposition say about legislative process or sel comms but instead websites esp UK Parliament own?

Intriguing

A licentious licence

I had a 5-a-side mate whom a couple of us (privately) nicknamed Hicky - depending on who turned up and how sides got picked, scored a hatful and never passed or blanked it, and shouted at everyone

Ach, yes indeed, sorry Tim … didn’t see that