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I got asked what turns out to be a cracking Q in class today - and I’m hopeful an expert practitioner can help What rules surround DNA retention following successful appeal or overturning conviction? s63l PACE is silent & quick search produces nothing Assume reverts to non-conviction rules but…?

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It’s not simply FPTP that creates a concern but that in a constitutional democracy premised on parliamentary sovereignty, it’s a double whammy …Parliament being able to pass whatever law it likes but with seats - and a majority - bearing no necessary relationship to popular vote

Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I wish we could go back to the news reporting what had happened in politics not what some politicians’ PR tell them will likely happen But I imagine those days have really gone

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With tensions running so high in NI, here's @conorjkelly.bsky.social and my account of what happens if the DUP or Sinn Féin walk out of the Executive, and why the arrangements put in place in 2022 will not lead to an early election unless those parties work together: ukandeu.ac.uk/what-happens...

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What happens next if power sharing at Stormont collapses over Drumcree? - UK in a changing Europe

Conor J. Kelly and Colin Murray discuss what would happen next if one of the major parties pulled out of the Stormont...

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What is the annual value of the triple lock to a pensioner Not how much has the pension gone up over a year but what is/would be the marginal loss in ££s of only using (say) inflation not RPI?

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When does Sharon Graham breathe?

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Is he filling in for the Norfolk PCC?

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It’s a bloody big risk in a word limited media form to use so many simply to ask “do they look like me or not?”

As the lead for our Social Justice research group, I'm delighted to be hosting @mariaosullivan.bsky.social here at UEA on Weds 14 October as part of our 1-2 lunchtime research paper series "Current Challenges to the Right to Protest – The Silencing of Refugee and Immigrant Populations"

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just been accused by an anonymous reviewer of having produced “lazy work” F*** me I’m cross

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The Guardian actively showing the BBC how it’s done

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lawofprotest.bsky.social @lawofprotest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Parades Commission, set up to shield PSNI from contentious parades - and to avoid decisions being based primarily on public order grounds, but rather on human rights - relied on the police assessment, and handed parading right back to the police ... to make a decision on public order grounds.

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For anyone watching the RL play off, Faatili has a haircut the like of which I’ve never seen A perm skullet the youngsters on the house assure

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What a weird way to list them Can’t work out why

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With that line-up, certainly with Falcone leading the attack, hard to see how they’ve not qualified for three WCs on the trot…its got flair, creativity and quick thinking throughout but perhaps lacks steel in the centre of the park?

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There is nothing like the first beer, end of first week back of teaching

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I guess Detectorists and Colin From Accounts doesn’t really translate - no action, no intrigue, no hate, no duplicity …just wonderful warm delights the pair

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There’s rarely a week when I don’t think “isn’t it strange that a sitting MP and party leader is able to host a TV current affairs/discussion programme”

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It’s not too much to ask that groups of black men and groups of black-shirted men get subjected to the same rules and treatment

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As I understand the stats, the overall trend of Channel crossings is downwards & specifically this year far fewer, & it’s a rare event for a boat to make it across without state interception For the BBC to focus on these two boats very much risks normalising exceptionalism into mainstream: a worry

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Oh my…. a man took the law into his own hands, slashed at a dinghy, recklessly endangering life, a matter of singular no-consequence it seems for the Home Secretary www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Really pleased to this from my cracking new colleague here at UEA Looks a great event

These days, if you use a hunting knife to puncture a dinghy in the channel endangering the life of the bloke in it, they don't throw you in jail...these days

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Taking the small wins: I’d thought I was slowing down on my twice-weekly bike ride as it was taking 61-62 minutes worth of podcast not the usual 56-57 Turns out I was listening at 1.1x After correcting it, today’s was 55:46, in my top five PBs Resuuult

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Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard

This almost certainly meets the definition of "terrorism" within s.1 TACT 2000, even bearing in mind (for fans of terrorism law analysis) the reading in of a mental element by the CA in Miranda to the "endangering life" limb of s.1(2). www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It’s all too easy to become blase about the shocking and increasing levels of poverty in the UK but short report provides startling stats One in eight adults “food insecure” - ate less or nothing as they couldn’t afford it Over one quarter school children eligible for free school meals

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Scott Wortley @scottwortley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

a little thing by me on the importance of teaching legislation and legislative interpretation as a discrete subject (underpinned by despair that in the UK we generally don't teach enough of this in law degrees (never mind how little there is in conversion courses))

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In Support of Teaching Legislation and Legislative Interpretation as a Discrete Subject – Edinburgh Private Law Blog

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Edinburgh Centre for Private Law @ecprivatelaw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New blog entry by @scottwortley.bsky.social (@uoelawschool.bsky.social) on 'In Support of Teaching Legislation and Legislative Interpretation as a Discrete Subject' blogs.ed.ac.uk/private-law/...

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I didn’t even know this was a thing

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I can thoroughly recommend this …haven’t read the book but I’m familiar with the cracking PhD from which it sprung

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Jen @jennyflower.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... You can now download my book for free and enjoy interviews with some of your favourite comedians and producers and even Lord Michael Grade about what makes the cut in political entertainment, what doesn't, and why. @academic-chatter.bsky.social

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The Law, Society, and Politics of Entertainment in Britain

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’m beginning to think I may have made an mighty mistake when I moved to Sussex in 1975 aged 7…rather than support local team Brighton - then languishing in (old) Div 3 - I chose glory hunting with that season’s champions, the might SuperRams Hey and very much ho, eh @timbale.bsky.social

David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I don’t want to pre-judge but I’d have thought that having followers all wearing black shirted uniform and picking only on people that aren’t white is a big big clue

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Of the MI5 case, while it’s usual to present the public interest immunity case as likely to undermine national security, what’s often not out is the counter:what sort of nation is being protected? one in which deliberate lying by its security forces is judicially sanctioned as perfectly permissible

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

And disappointing. Why not adopt football-ese and suggest people will face 110% force of the law?