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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 4m

See also partisan electoral district boundary redrawing

It’s bonkers

But it’s what Madison would have wanted I’m sure

David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 6m

How do they test this? I didn’t think ordinary stamped post was capable of being tracked..does OFCOM send loads of sample letters?

Genuinely intrigued

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Royal Mail fined £21m by Ofcom for missing delivery targets

It is the third-largest fine the communications watchdog has ever issued.

www.bbc.com

David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 9h

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 9h

That is not to say that at all

Frequency in a place is not the same as cumulative

If this is the level of legal analysis, discussion and definition, we are in serious trouble

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 11h

Funny how there’s “never any doubt” after the event for a shite commentator like Matterface

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Special Rapporteur FoAA @unsrapporteurfoaa.bsky.social · 11h

Freedom of association & assembly are under existential threat.
This report calls for urgent global action to rebuild solidarity, protect civil society & uphold democracy.
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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 15h

“And you know, and I’m not making this up, they were given leave to stay here because they had a Schrödinger’s cat together…”

David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 15h

Hold on, hold on, Home Secretary

English cannot be both a Mickey Mouse degree that we should not fund from the public purse while also an essential criteria for being able to remain in the UK

That’s a Catch-22… and that’s a well known book or saying for those not versed

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 15h

Hold on, hold on, Home Secretary

English cannot be both a Mickey Mouse degree that we should not fund from the public purse while also an essential criteria for being able to remain in the UK

That’s a Catch-22… and that’s a well known book or saying for those not versed

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 16h

You dont knead A-level standard Inglish to work hear but it helps

The Independent @the-independent.com · 19h

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

www.independent.co.uk

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 16h

90% culled from a handful of query searches, with 10% added by me to make the task work

I feel a moral responsibility to make them aware of the costs of such tech

Thanks

David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 16h

Can anyone point me in the direction of an easily understandable and easily digestible piece that I can adapt or simply pass onto/refer students to on the harms of AI/LLMs/ChatGPT?…environmental, moral theft etc

I have set as a formative task the provision of critical feedback on an amalgam essay

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 23h

“…a day like today, I mean, it’s not a day for soundbites really ..you can leave those at home …..but I do feel the hand of history on our shoulder”

T Blair 1998

Absolutely A1 f**** marvellous work, Tony

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Mark Elliott @profmarkelliott.bsky.social · 1d

New post, in which I argue the government's attempt to pin the blame for the collapse of the China spy trial on a single official will not wash constitutionally. Ministers must bear responsibility for an apparently deeply flawed decision-making process.

publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/10/13/c...

Cock-up or conspiracy? The Security Minister’s statement on the China espionage case

The Security Minister, Dan Jarvis, has made a statement to the House of Commons regarding the collapse of the prosecution of two individuals who had been accused of espionage contrary to section 1(…

publiclawforeveryone.com

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 1d

are very comfortable with stoning gays to death or who advocate assassination of abortion clinicians

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 1d

Nick Robinson seems unwittingly to have confirmed Mishal Hussain’s exact points

All faiths have fundamentalist elements yet the media and politicians label Islamist far more easily and frequently

We far more rarely read it of Christians who on the most favourable account of their own words

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 1d

Mark, thanks as ever for the blog

It highlights for me anyway an under-explored issue in relation to that constitutional doctrine:ministerial competence qua dept administrative head

I’m reminded of Diana Woodhouse’s(?) idea of role responsibility…the resignation of Estelle Morris a case in point

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 1d

Of course we have …the day after I finalised and uploaded my lectures

Tim Durrant @timdurrant.bsky.social · 1d

We have an updated ministerial code! The new code makes clear that ministers "are expected" to pay back any severance payment if they quickly get a new ministerial job or are found to have broken the rules on post-government jobs

www.gov.uk/government/p...

Ministerial Code

Ministerial Code setting out the standards of conduct expected of ministers and how they discharge their duties.

www.gov.uk

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 2d

Is it age or does 6pm Friday seem only an afternoon ago?

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 3d

I’m a big fan of Labour-y people across the spectrum but I’m not sure that announcing a policy review or a massive private bank announcing an investment is really a “Labour achievement” in the same way as the Govt pumping in £84m (No1) is

LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 5d

This week’s top ten Labour achievements include better GP access, new licensing laws and the phenomenal benefits of the trade deal with India. Welcome Bollywood!

1. £84 million injection to tackle homelessness
2. Half of rail operators publicly owned with Greater Anglia onboard
3. First illegal migrants returned under new UK-France agreement
4. Patients in poorer areas to get better access to GPs
5. 10,600 new UK jobs have been unlocked during the Prime Minister’s visit to India
6. New licensing laws are being reviewed
7. 64 Indian companies will invest over £1 billion into the UK, creating 6,900 jobs spread across every region
8. £167m funding will allow specialist employment advisers in GP surgeries & mental health services. Helping people back into workplace.
9. CEO of JP Morgan Chase in Bournemouth announced £350 million expansion of their campus there
10. 21,000 new homes in North Sussex unlocked after four-year bottleneck
11. More than 1,120 senior gang members have been charged and over 2,300

David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 4d

“Bringing facts to a vibes fight” deserves an entry into 2025 phrase of the year

Absolute genius

UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · 5d

Alan Greene: Bringing facts to a vibes fight: Kayfabe and debates on the UK and the ECHR ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/10/09/a...

Alan Greene: Bringing facts to a vibes fight: Kayfabe and debates on the UK and the ECHR

It is now 25 years since the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) entered into force and far from this endurance cementing its legitimacy, the judicial protection of human rights in the UK finds itself in t…

ukconstitutionallaw.org

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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · 5d

Alan Greene: Bringing facts to a vibes fight: Kayfabe and debates on the UK and the ECHR ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/10/09/a...

Alan Greene: Bringing facts to a vibes fight: Kayfabe and debates on the UK and the ECHR

It is now 25 years since the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) entered into force and far from this endurance cementing its legitimacy, the judicial protection of human rights in the UK finds itself in t…

ukconstitutionallaw.org

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you, Mark; that’s very kind

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 4d

“It was the 89th anniversary of the arrest of my father for being one of the organisers of the 1936 Cable Street resistance to the rise of fascism in Britain.

I was arrested on Saturday with hundreds of others at the Defend Our Juries action…”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Anti-protest proposals put free speech at risk | Letters

Letters: Readers respond to the proposal to give police further powers to curb ‘cumulative’ protests, in response to actions by the proscribed group Palestine Action

www.theguardian.com

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Netpol @netpol.org · 5d

One of our team was arrested yesterday for allegedly breaching protest restrictions, even though they weren't protesting – because wearing a keffiyeh while walking down the street is "reasonable suspicion".

This is the result of Starmer's crackdown: we're back in time to Nov 2023 under the Tories

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