Backdoors and vetoes: New security powers will fatally undermine your privacy MATT SINCLAIR When your new security law might undermine secure communications and data privacy, something has probably gone wrong, writes Matt Sinclair
Our laws on tech companies would give too much power to regulators like the CMA Matthew sinclair Laws for big tech are already based on outdated information where Google and Facebook are king and regulators like the CMA are expected to make sense of a changed world, writes Matthew Sinclair
Succession: CMA would block a Waystar merger just like Microsoft – and it hurts Britain Guest essay No spoilers, I promise. Succession builds towards its climax. Logan Roy, played by a full tilt Brian Cox, is trying to finalise a merger between his media conglomerate Waystar Royco – a hybrid of News Corporation and Disney – and the up and coming tech business GoJo. Imagine the final scenes. Months of globe-trotting negotiations [...]
As National Grid warns of a winter electricity capacity squeeze, is UK energy policy to blame? October 28, 2014 Matthew Sinclair, an economist and author of Let Them Eat Carbon, says Yes. The UK’s energy sector used to do quite a good job of delivering affordable and reliable energy. Politicians then made a number of interventions which increased costs and reduced reliability. First came obstacles to the construction of new coal capacity, then the [...]
