A few weeks ago I wrote about John Vickers’ recent defence of consumer welfare as the guiding principle of competition law and policy. Some contrary views to John’s were then…
There is plenty of speculation in the competition community about what the new UK government means for the CMA and its approach to enforcement. Will Labour want the CMA to…
In this blog for the Social Market Foundation, Stuart Hudson – former CMA Director of Strategy – argues that an incoming Labour government will need competitive markets to drive growth…
The UK’s independent regulators are again under fire from politicians. The City Minister, Bim Afolami, has criticised ‘overbearing and interfering regulators’ and called for the next government to seek cross-party…
I enjoyed listening to this interview with my friend and former colleague Bill Kovacic on Nick Levy’s excellent Antitrust Review podcast.
In the podcast, Bill talks about what first attracted…
From Blair and Brown to Starmer and Reeves
As the general election get closer, those of us who worked for the last Labour government often get asked how different we…
The FCA should think twice - but so should companies calling for political intervention
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has proposed changing its approach to naming companies that are subject…
Traditionalists and progressives will both lose out if they favour delegitimization over dialogue
I’m writing this from Washington DC where the American Bar Association is holding its annual…
Avoid the technocratic trap, the wishful thinking trap, the mediamacro trap and the false analogy trap
The American economist Alan Blinder once set out what he called the lamppost theory…