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Antitrust / competition law and tech regulation partner @ Covington, ex DG COMP. Brussels and Brighton.

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a man in a police uniform with the words we hunt the truth written below him ALT: a man in a police uniform with the words we hunt the truth written below him
19.02.2026 10:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

🎢Happy birthday to ya, happy birthday to ya, happy birthday🎢

19.02.2026 10:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You haven’t allowed for the Independent Republic of Yorkshire. There’s no way they’d accept being lumped together with Lanks, Mancs and Geordies.

18.02.2026 11:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It is, de facto.

17.02.2026 14:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I guess that Cummings’ blog was part of the training corpus of ChatGPT.

08.02.2026 16:37 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

[Yoda voice]: The lack of self awareness is strong in this one.

29.01.2026 15:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Streets Of Minneapolis | Bruce Springsteen I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis,...

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As Bono said, there’s only one boss in America.

29.01.2026 01:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Some in FIFA apparently worried that association with Trump will β€œtarnish their reputation”. Really hard to know where to start with that.

18.01.2026 13:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s hard to think of anyone more likely than Farage to be voted out in round one of the next #traitors.

18.01.2026 11:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In case someone (v much thinking of certain Competition Law colleagues and a certain Linkedin spat) wants to again explain how EU enforcement against X was totally biased and a form of protectionism.

07.01.2026 10:27 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

For anyone that needs a good news story (which is pretty much all of us).

16.12.2025 16:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ariel Ezrachi’s Competition Law is a great overview of the field (my area of law). I imagine they’re difficult books to write as being both accurate and accessible is hard, so I’m not surprised that some miss the target.

12.12.2025 13:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don't really post anymore, but I would like to carry on writing books at some point in the future.

Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death.

11.12.2025 17:31 πŸ‘ 414 πŸ” 444 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 8

We're hiring.......

26.11.2025 17:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Fair. Maybe one of the lesser-known Norse deities maybe?

11.11.2025 00:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Stephen’s an admirable guy in many many ways but god-like maybe goes a bit far.

10.11.2025 23:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Not disagreeing at all !

26.10.2025 22:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œThere aren’t many of β€˜them’ but there are too many of β€˜them’ β€œ is a pretty solid racist position though. Logic and rationality (and honesty) be damned.

26.10.2025 21:57 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It stands up to rewatching now.

It’s just so gloriously warm with a dash of politics.

β€œI’m going to walk out of here a free man.

I do impressions you see.”

Big Al.

21.10.2025 19:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks. I need to think about that distinction some more but it’s a useful point.

19.10.2025 21:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Are you making Holmes’s β€œsimplicity on the other [far] side of complexity” point or do you have something else in mind?

19.10.2025 21:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œAre you speaking to Truong from the percentage?”

Really loving Apple Intelligence summaries on my new phone.

16.10.2025 08:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Iain M Banks would have approved.

11.10.2025 17:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œWhen I use a word…” Humphrey Dumpty said…

09.10.2025 18:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Well it’s definitely a view.

06.10.2025 21:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Quite. That Starmer is allying with Trump agains the EU is a ridiculous argument. I don’t agree with Starmer’s rhetoric or policies on a lot of things but to say that he’s closer to Trump than he is to, eg, VDL is just not serious.

04.10.2025 19:12 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

People who bleat on about the DMA should keep this in mind 3/3

03.10.2025 11:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So telecoms regulation recognises that we’re not going to have 50 companies putting wires into every home so we put access requirements in place. Energy is similar. 2/x

03.10.2025 11:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

One of the β€œmeta” rules about competition (and competition policy) is that it’s generally not a good idea to let control over one layer of a system allow control over other layers as well. 1/x

03.10.2025 11:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Six years ago, almost to the day, Apple removing a similar app from the Hong Kong App Store was seen as such a breach that Tim Cook wrote an all staff email to defend it www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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