Bruce Lawson

  1. On CMA’s proposed NFC access conduct requirement for Apple’s iOS

    (Last Updated on 26 October 2026) If the title of this post didn’t get your pulse quickening, you’re probably in a coma. Sorry if it’s a bit clickbaity. On Tuesday, the daring, dauntless and doughty defenders of digital diversity at the CMA, UK’s competition regulator, published their Proposed NFC access…

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  2. Reading List 362

    Yikes, once again it’s been ages since I posted a reading list, as I’ve been shuttling between Brussels, London and Lawson Towers a lot. This reading list is courtesy of Vivaldi browser, who pay me decent money to fight for a better web and don’t moan at me for reading all this stuff. We’ve just […]

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  3. Farage believes Andrew Tate is “an important voice”

    Now we know that the execrable Andrew Tate is wanted by British police for allegedly making indecent images of a child, rape, stranging women during sex, and possession of extreme pornography depicting sexual intercourse between people and live animals — one involving an eel and another involving a horse…

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  4. EU, EU, It’s off to work we go

    Last week, I had an exciting few days in Brussels, meeting with the European Commission with other browser vendors, technology groups, and representatives of a Big Tech Gatekeeper about the latter’s sustained and relentless malicious compliance with the Digital Markets Act, the EU’s law “to make the…

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  5. CMA: The Umpire Strikes Back?

    Because I’m a rock and roll animal, I was invited to an event in London called Time to Reset: Unlocking Growth & Sovereignty Through Digital Competition. It wasn’t really clear to me why a grubby HTML monkey like me was invited, or what it was really about, but as it was in the Financial Times […]

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  6. Reading List 361

    (Last Updated on 31 August 2026) Crikey, it’s been ages since I posted a reading list, so here’s every tab I had saved in my “Reading List” Vivaldi workspace. Apologies if some have been posted before! Multiple-column layout, rows, rules, and floats by Rachel Andrew. Marginalia – a search engine that…

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