It was a pleasure to join Matthew Hall and James Hunsberger on the latest episode of Our Curious Amalgam, the podcast from the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Law Section. We…
Tony Blair’s essay on the challenge facing the Labour party has, unsurprisingly, sparked a heated debate and there have been critical responses from Andy Burnham, Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer.…
In the United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom, recent months have seen a flurry of stories about the politicisation of competition law enforcement. These reports have caused…
Over the past four decades, central banks, antitrust agencies and economic regulators have taken an increasingly important role on both sides of the Atlantic. They have tended to operate at…
The latest guest on Nick Levy’s excellent Antitrust Review podcast is my old colleague, the CMA’s former chief economist Mike Walker.
There are two points I want to highlight…
The Industry and Regulators Select Committee has published my written evidence to its inquiry into the regulators and growth.
If you’re interested you can find my submission here (pdf and…
The proposals to reform decision-making in CMA merger cases and market investigations have sparked a lively debate in the competition community.
Some of my former colleagues at the CMA…
Reform UK's head of policy, Zia Yusuf, has given the clearest indication yet of how the party would approach economic regulation and competition policy if it were to win power…
The past year has seen unprecedented political intervention in the work of antitrust authorities.
In the US, President Donald Trump dismissed two commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission in…