David Mead

@AdamBrichto Adam, really good to stop, meet & chat yesterday Hope day did not end too horrendously for you and those around you…? I moved from this cesspit site ages ago and only came back on to message I’m on BlueSky - same handle if ever need protest law expert

Rarely on here now but wanted to let you know how much we enjoyed your show last night @watsoncomedian I’m Mr Tumours.Thought you might like this docko on Henry Marsh, featuring our kitchen at the end… bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod… Think too my son have chatted with you on ParkRun

@BBCr4today I’m sorry that neither Sir Peter Fahey nor Baroness Chakrabarti were able easily and clearly to answer @JustinOnWeb question but the answer is simple and clear Yes, the police already have the power to regulate both marches & assemblies that intimidate local people

The people have spoken Get over it

bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… The blurb isn’t quite right He very well remembers my wife whose life he transformed …it’s not just those he couldn’t save that haunt him Nonetheless, well worth a peak

and prepare to die given the size & place of the brain tumour she had He did. She lived…and lives BBC2 has a documentary on his life & work Monday fortnight, 18 August 21:00 with cameos by her and our kitchen, and token gesture to me

I am nowadays almost never on here so I suspect few will see this but just in case…. A few people on here may know of our family’s interaction with the wonderful surgeon, Henry Marsh…he operated on my wife in 2004 when a major Cambridge teaching hospital told her to go home

I should have plugged my wife’s wonderful blog, documenting her life & thoughts since diagnosis in early 2003 bombinmybrain.wordpress.com/here-and-now/a…

@Scott_Wortley We’re at a BBC preview on Friday night but have seen bits and bobs Wonderful man and an interesting and reflective character

@SeethingMead I will watch out for this.

Norwich folk: Very very late but I’ve not been able to shake off grotty head & throat Would anyone like a single ticket to Butler Blake & Grant gig? Tonight @NorwichArtCentr from 8:00; they’re on at 9:00 No charge Would just like a good home norwichartscentre.co.uk/event/butler-b…

@jim1902adams Starmer truly is becoming Bad Enoch

Quite apart from the question of how ethical this approach may be, it just won’t work. No matter how low you go, Farage, Jenrick, Badenoch et al will always go lower.

Photos from our event last week, where we launched a report in Parliament on voting rights in the UK. 4.4 million resident adults are unable to vote in Parliamentary elections 1.2 million resident adults are unable to vote in local elections tobysjames.com/wp-content/upl…

@JRLevinsLaw Lucky them … in the old days you just got a satsuma

I imagine they'll just fine and, if necessary, disqualify your team, Fae 🤷‍♂️.

Dear @BBCr4today and @BBCSimonJack For a book on the Great North Road, you could have looked to one of your own, Look East journalist …@stevesilk66

@TonyDowson5 Weirdly, that’s not the same content over on Bluesky

Judges would be "sending those who hid Anne Frank to the cattle trucks" How absolutely crass

You aren’t the same @BenGoldsborough who had a shout out from the SeanBean lounge at the end of this week’s @beansaladpod ….surely? Absolutely fantastic if you were

@Geoff_Pearson @StoriesFromJack But people just assembling - even if (let’s assume) common purpose - is not bad …protesters are It’s the same idea as good v bad disruption This from something I’m working on today explains a bit more It’s not groups that are the social problem but their political motivation

@StoriesFromJack I have long been a critic of the by govt (and until recently police) focus on protest rather than assembly when the former is contested and lacks definition. The question of whether Pride is a protest or not, for example, always brings different responses.

So my reading of the proposed protest pyro ban offence in the new Crime and Policing Bill is that you wouldn't commit a crime if you set off a pyrotechnic while marching to a football match even if you were also protesting (eg about ticket prices, ownership, super-league).

@Geoff_Pearson @StoriesFromJack It’s going to get very tricky

@Geoff_Pearson @StoriesFromJack It was the exact reason why I chose as cover of my 2010 book Marc Wallingers Tate installation State Britain - a work of art based exactly on Brian Haw’s Westminster camp

@Geoff_Pearson @StoriesFromJack I’ve just posted about this on Bluesky