Matthew Cole

@s8mb @VicctorianChad Absolutely, the problem isn’t new builds, that’s that everyone knows what’s built will be ugly.

The new build estates on the outskirts of Cambridge are truly shocking. Is it any wonder that people there hate the thought of expanding the city when this is what they can expect will be built?

@klsbkkr @shelovesore Yes! This! ☝🏼Good Friday was introduced centuries later.

@shelovesore The Shabbat spoken of in scripture is not a Saturday Shabbat, but a Feast Shabbat, the start of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Yeshua was crucified Wednesday afternoon. Thursday was a Feast day, He rose on the Saturday Shabbat. Shabbat ended on the evening of Saturday.

I’m sorry, genuinely asking but i thought Jesus died on a Friday afternoon. Going by that and the fact that he resurrected 3 days after, aren’t we meant to be celebrating Easter on Monday and not Sunday?

@ProudofusUK ‘They were the first organised religious body in the world to formally condemn slavery.’ If you can find it consider the London Council 1102AD. Don’t look for summaries, they add conditionality that doesn’t seem to exist in the original.

Britain locked up 10,000 Quakers. 450 died in prison. 🇬🇧 Their crime, under the Quaker Act 1662, was refusing to swear an oath. Because they told the truth all the time. Barclays Bank: founded 1690 by Quakers John Freame and Thomas Gould. Lloyds Bank: founded 1765 by Quaker Sampson Lloyd. Cadbury: founded 1824 by Quaker John Cadbury in Birmingham. Clarks shoes: founded 1825 by Quakers in Somerset. They were the first organised religious body in the world to formally condemn slavery. The Germantown Petition, 1688. London Yearly Meeting followed in 1761. Decades before Wilberforce. Elizabeth Fry walked into Newgate Prison in 1813. The Gaols Act passed in 1823. At their peak they were 0.2% of the population. One in five hundred people. They changed everything. Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

The older I get, the more I realise that the moments I felt closest to God were never on the summit. They were in the valley. Cold, broken, asking for help. That's where He meets us.

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🚨 New paper!🚨 How can ordoliberalism help us navigate climate policy under deep uncertainty? 👉 Our article: Rules, Uncertainty, and Ordoliberalism: The Case of Climate Change (with Malte Dold) 📄 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… #ClimatePolicy #Ordoliberalism #Uncertainty

Microsoft avoids EU fine after competition probe via @FT on.ft.com/4ggckI4

One of the best antitrust papers now in the QJE: Nearly half of US federal judges attended a crash course in economics at the Manne Institute. This training had lasting effects: judges used more econ language, sided against regulators more often, and imposed harsher sentences.

Donald Trump responds to the EU’s €3BN Google fine & threatens to launch a section 301 proceeding which would allow @USTradeRep to probe allegedly unfair foreign trade practices.

EU hits Google with €2.95bn antitrust fine via @FT on.ft.com/4lUS9Rb

One of the first DMA cases concerns Meta non-compliance with its obligations. We had a fruitful discussion about this case with three leading academics adhering to rather different normative positions. Video-summary of key messages Full conversation 🔌 youtube.com/watch?v=bf-bEy…

#FTC Chair Warns #Google Over Alleged Bias Against Republicans by Gmail Spam Filters pymnts.com/cpi-posts/ftc-…

Were you surprised not to see the @EU_Commission fine @Google yesterday for an #antitrust abuse in #adtech? Yeh, me too. Here's a story about that. /1

Google keeps Chrome and Apple deal but must share data in big antitrust ruling - Reuters stocks.apple.com/A7Be2WTxgQPmD0…

It's a merger of complements, not of competitors. They are almost always legal.

In the June issue: Jan Blockx (@UAntwerpen) reviews: “Restrictions of EU Competition Law in the Digital Age: The Meaning of ‘Effects’ in a Digital Economy” by Bernadette Zelger, published by @SpringerLaw. Link: kluwerlawonline.com/journalarticle…

I am very glad to share a new interview 🎬 youtube.com/watch?v=xI0CoH… with Ian Forrester KC a person who needs no introduction in the narrow antitrust and, more broadly, EU law circles; a former judge of the General Court (CJEU) and one of the leading practitioners in the field.

How costly are poorly written laws? A team of Italian researchers argue that the drafting of Italy’s laws alone costs them 5% of GDP — or $120 billion a year! 1/

@johnmarknewman The number of times I’ve stopped using or even uninstalled software because the software company decided they would try and make you use something….

I have a pet theory that Microsoft's Edge browser isn't actually that bad; people just get extremely annoyed by how Microsoft rams it down your throat at every possible opportunity. One esp. ridiculous example: making Edge the default app for opening PDFs: