Martin 马丁 Holterman
Gamekeeper turned poacher turned gamekeeper. Ex-consultant, ex-CMA, ex-Ofwat, ex-EUI. Tweets and RTs (occasionally) reflect personal views, but never anyone else's.
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- Reposted by Martin 马丁 Holterman💻The Commission just published a preliminary finding that TikTok’s ad repository is in breach of the DSA. It is only the second case where the Commission published such a finding 1/🧵 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
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- Reposted by Martin 马丁 HoltermanThey conkered them, obviously; Jesus Christ do I have to do everything around here
- Reposted by Martin 马丁 HoltermanThis obsession is with “young men turning to the right” is everything that is wrong with the discussion about the far right. It is not just an inadequate read of what is happening, and a bias towards the male norm, but it also normalizes the far right and obscures support for inclusive politics. 🧵
- Reposted by Martin 马丁 HoltermanWe invite signatures from UK law people for our open letter on the aftermath of FWS. *Please sign and share with your networks* as we will send to the relevant parliamentary human rights bodies on closure of the letter.
- A group of us law academics put together a letter on FWS v Scottish Ministers UK Supreme Court ruling & we are asking other *UK based law folk* (academic activist practitioner etc) to sign More details 👇 #transrights #trans #transgender #lawsky #academicsky #UKlaw docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- Reposted by Martin 马丁 HoltermanLord Etherton GBE, a distinguished appeal judge and master of the rolls from 2016 until his retirement at the beginning of 2021, died last night. He was 73. rozenberg.substack.com/p/terry-ethe...
- Reposted by Martin 马丁 HoltermanBtw, what’s currently happening in terms of the further normalisation of the AfD in Germany—I’m not sure ‘normalisation’ is even still the right term, here ‘directly enabling’ is clearly more appropriate—is deeply, deeply concerning. www.tagesspiegel.de/potsdam/bran...
- I am fascinated by the question of whether a British coronation is a "constitutional" event, as this blog post by the @conunitucl.bsky.social says/assumes. Given that the King is King regardless of whether he is crowned, one might argue otherwise. constitution-unit.com/2025/05/06/t...
- Reposted by Martin 马丁 HoltermanLegacy media keeps pushing “young man have radicalized” narrative, to fit their equally wrong “the people have become more right-wing narrative. Real story is “radicalization” of young women… but, like their sisters in previous generations, they only live in shadows (negations) of their male peers.
- Reposted by Martin 马丁 HoltermanIt’s the 51st anniversary of one of this proud nation’s great cultural highlights: renowned intellectual Ken Tynan gets his girlfriend to stick vodka up his bum. The consequences are… less than ideal
- Of we kunnen natuurlijk de dodenherdenking (dag voor 5 mei) bewaren voor de doden van de 2e wereldoorlog, en voor alle andere slachtoffers van (oorlogs)misdaden iets anders bedenken. 🤷♂️
- Wow, that's a lot of incorrect factual claims for such a short blog post, never mind the ill-advised opinions. @tylercowen.bsky.social marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
- I guess maybe the earth is flat after all...
- Reposted by Martin 马丁 HoltermanI can’t find the original link, but places with higher numbers of graduates also tend to be (a) younger, (b) growing / dynamic, (c) wealthier, (d) with better built / natural environment, and (e) more diverse. The causes of political discontent are complex, and the driver is not just education.
- PVV, Forum, JA21
- Labor on track to form government, competitive in at least 12 Liberal seats www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
- Or shorter: Tory voters run to Reform, Labour voters run to the LibDems and the Greens.
- Dus we doen in Nederland tegenwoordig ook landsbestuur via tweet, net als Trump? Of heeft de minister het COA eerst netjes een ambtsinstructie gegeven en dat alleen wat onhandig bekend gemaakt?
- Reminder: Yesterday's local elections didn't include any voting in London, Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland.
- Ever since New Labour England has had an honest to god admiral as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, but it doesn't seem to have done them much good...
- Reposted by Martin 马丁 HoltermanLook, you really have to ask what the reaction would if any other country in the world attacked an aid ship from an EU country just outside its waters.
- Reposted by Martin 马丁 Holterman🚨 BREAKING: TikTok has been hit with a €530 million fine after illegally sending the personal data of European users to China. Read the story: ow.ly/16Yh50VLQ9I
- The new (Labour) Mayor of the West of England Combined Authority has won the backing of 7.5% of the electorate… #DemocraticDeficit
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- I'm not sure why BlueSky's algorithm thought that the message prof. Hovenkamp quoted was somehow intolerant.
- This seems like the sort of thing that we may well not like, but that the CJEU shouldn't have invented a rule to stop. If the Member States want to include a rule in the Treaties to stop investor citizenship they can do that, but historically citizenship was a carefully protected prerogative.
- 🎉 EU citizenship is not for sale!! 🇪🇺 The @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social ⚖️ rules against the Golden Passport schemes! EU citizenship is not a commodity. This is a major victory for the rule of law, and a massive blow against crooks who buy their way into the EU
