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Inquest report criticises inadequate gambling regulation and treatment
21 Mar 2022
You may have seen media reports of the recently concluded inquest into the death of Jack, son of Liz and Charles Ritchie who started the impressive...
Read MoreUK gambling reform: Is the Government serious?
08 Feb 2022
The UK Government will soon be announcing its plans for changes to gambling regulation. The following letter was sent recently to the Ministers most closely...
Read MoreLandmark Public Health England report published today
30 Sep 2021
A landmark report from Public Health England (PHE) has been published today. This is ‘the first comprehensive review of the evidence on gambling harms and...
Read MoreGovernment call for evidence - HAVE YOUR SAY
10 Mar 2021
There are only 21 days left until the Government's consultation on the 2005 Gambling Act closes. This is our best chance for some time to come to see real...
Read MoreControl gambling: We can do it!
26 Jan 2021
There is no excuse now for not getting involved in controlling gambling, either personally or politically or both. There are now several groups, some of them...
Read MoreRadical changes to British gambling needed say expert reports
08 Sep 2020
Expert Reports Call for Radical Changes to British Gambling Regulation Is Government Listening? Summary I analyse three recent high-level reports on...
Read MoreGambling industry fails to answer calls for controls during the virus crisis
14 Apr 2020
I was one of 12 academics and doctors who sent a letter to the Times last week calling for a suspension of gambling advertising during the crisis. Twenty...
Read MoreAre betting companies taking advantage of the coronavirus crisis?
28 Mar 2020
Betting companies, like so many others, are facing uncertainty created by the coronavirus crisis. Will their profits decrease or, because people are confined...
Read MoreNew book on gambling is a must-read
24 Mar 2020
Rebecca Cassidy 2020 Vicious Games: Capitalism and Gambling. London: Pluto Press. No one knows better than Rebecca Cassidy the way in which betting has...
Read MoreGambling company sponsorship of football – What should be done?
09 Mar 2020
Following the announcement of a ban on the use of credit cards for gambling in the UK from April, the spotlight is now on the Government to see how quickly it...
Read MoreGambling Commission’s industry groups on safer gambling: a conflict of interests
07 Feb 2020
The Gambling Commission is setting up three industry-led working groups to help take forward its ‘drive to make gambling safer’ (see GC newsletter 27 January...
Read MoreBetting companies admit that a huge percentage of ‘deposits’ come from a few customers
07 Feb 2020
The five big betting companies have admitted, for the first time, under questioning from members of the House of Lords Select Committee on gambling harm, that...
Read MoreGambling with credit cards banned from April
22 Jan 2020
After holding a consultation, the Gambling Commission has decided to ban gambling operators accepting payment with credit cards, starting on April 14th. At...
Read MoreNHS England blames the gambling industry for gambling addiction and plans new gambling clinics
08 Jan 2020
‘The NHS is facing a rising tide of gambling related ill health’, says NHS England. Their data show the number of gambling related hospital admissions has...
Read MorePub allows under 18s to use gambling machines and loses its permit
19 Dec 2019
For the first time a British pub has been stripped of its permit to have gambling machines on its premises (Gambling Commission 16 December 2019). Redbridge...
Read MoreParliamentary group lambasts online gambling
05 Dec 2019
The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Gambling Related Harm (APPG-GRH) has produced an Interim Report into the Online Gambling Sector which does not mince...
Read MorePolitical parties pledge gambling reform
05 Dec 2019
All four main political parties going into the December 12th general election make specific mention of gambling in their manifestos. Congratulations to...
Read More'The Gambling Establishment' is published - a must read
18 Sep 2019
An important new book will be out in a few days time: The Gambling Establishment: Challenging the Power of the Modern Gambling Industry and Its Allies, by Jim...
Read MoreThe tide is turning against the gambling industry
09 Aug 2019
Great BBC TV programme available online at bbc.co.uk/bbcthree from 4 July 2019. Comedian Lloyd Griffith fails to double his money during a week of gambling,...
Read MoreGambling with Lives launch shows the tide is turning
17 Nov 2018
Tuesday this week, 13th November 2018, was the launch of Gambling with Lives (GwL) at the Houses of Parliament. The event was extremely well attended by...
Read MoreGambling with Lives
16 Aug 2018
Gambling with Lives (GwL) is a new group started by the parents of a young man with a gambling addiction who committed suicide. They are naturally grief...
Read MoreFOBT Stake Cut to £2 Maximum
17 May 2018
The Government has at last seen sense and done what we and so many others have been asking for. Today it has announced it is bringing the maximum stake per...
Read MoreWhat do you think about online gambling marketing: Gambling Commission wants to know
13 Feb 2018
The Gambling Commission (GC) has announced that it is working with the Competition and Markets Authority to make sure that online gambling companies bring...
Read MoreGambling: a big public health problem neglected
15 Sep 2017
The Gambling Commission has just published a summary of British survey findings for 2015. The results are not new but this is the first time they have put...
Read MoreAre we seeing a backlash against liberalised commercial gambling?
05 Jun 2017
I have seen a couple of signs just recently that the tide might be turning against the establishment assumption that a strong, innovating and widely...
Read MoreGambling problems are costing Government hundreds of millions
13 Jan 2017
An important report came out at the end of 2016. This was from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), an influential and progressive British...
Read MoreWhat shall we say to the Government enquiry on Fixed Odds Betting Terminals?
07 Nov 2016
Good news! Well maybe, let’s wait and see what the actual outcome is. But we do welcome the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) putting out a...
Read MoreHonest admissions by prominent gambling establishment figure
11 Aug 2016
Gambling Commission’s former Chair talks at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) Following his five years as Chair of the Gambling Commission, Philip Graf was...
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