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Kevin Coates
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Antitrust / competition law and tech regulation partner @ Covington, ex DG COMP.

Brussels and Brighton.
Fair. Maybe one of the lesser-known Norse deities maybe?
November 11, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Stephen’s an admirable guy in many many ways but god-like maybe goes a bit far.
November 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Not disagreeing at all !
October 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
“There aren’t many of ‘them’ but there are too many of ‘them’ “ is a pretty solid racist position though. Logic and rationality (and honesty) be damned.
October 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
It stands up to rewatching now.

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

“I’m going to walk out of here a free man.

I do impressions you see.”

Big Al.
October 21, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Thanks. I need to think about that distinction some more but it’s a useful point.
October 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Are you making Holmes’s “simplicity on the other [far] side of complexity” point or do you have something else in mind?
October 19, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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.
October 4, 2025 at 7:12 PM
People who bleat on about the DMA should keep this in mind 3/3
October 3, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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
October 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
He may need to revise his self-description as a “former” criminal quite soon.
September 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
You’re celebrating being a citizen of nowhere surrounded by other citizens of nowhere. Nick Timothy would turn in his grave. (That last part is just wishful thinking.)
September 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Don’t you know? Maybe go and ask a nice policeman.
September 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I’ve lived through a couple of those. I like to think of it as the email evolving to keep itself alive.
a black and white photo of a man with a stethoscope around his neck screaming .
Alt: a black and white photo of a man with a stethoscope around his neck screaming “it’s alive” (Gene Wilder in Mel Brooks’s Young Frankenstein from 1974).
media.tenor.com
September 3, 2025 at 10:56 PM
The willingness of some lawyers to wander gleefully out of their lane with a “well how hard could it be?” look on their face is a regular source of both joy and terror to me.
September 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM