OPEN BOOK: Gambling Addiction, What Debt Do We Owe?
In the summer of 2021, Luke Ashton, a husband and father-of-two from Leicester, England, took his own life, writes Grace Graham-Taylor. Unbeknown…
UK Gambling White Paper
Come September Slots, UK Government Stakes The Heart of British Betting
In a move from September that could cost the UK gambling industry hundreds of millions of pounds in lower earnings, the British…
Five More Years: Sky Bet and English Football League Extend Title Partnership
Flutter Entertainment’s subsidiary, Sky Bet, has confirmed a landmark five-year extension with the English Football League (EFL). This prolongs Sky Bet’s status…
The Big Fade, White Paper Lands With A Flutter
In the end the White Paper hit with something of an anti-climax, perhaps representative of the measured, collegiate, head-boy style of Number…
Gambling’s White Paper. Where Art Thou?
Who needs a government gambling White Paper when it appears that reform is writing itself. That’s the message streaming out of the…
Betting On Gov. Action, EPL Yellow Cards Shirt Sponsorship
In a move that some critics are calling as much performative as transformative, given that impending UK government gaming reform is heavily…
Godzilla v. King Kong, Big Beasts Dugher and Lawson Face Off In The iGaming Jungle
Godzilla versus King Kong, there’s a metaphorical 500lb gorilla in the iGaming jungle. “Lots of hysterical nonsense is claimed about betting &…
With Gambling Reform on the Warpath, It May Be Time to Circle The Wagons
Gambling reform–perhaps more than most issues on this government’s agenda–has been buffeted and delayed by the chaos of Covid and internecine Tory…
The Fifth Dimension: In A Game of Musical Chairs, Don’t Worry Here Comes Scully in a Hurry
In a game of musical chairs, Paul Scully, a former Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, has become the fifth government minister…
Not If, But When — UK Gambling Reform White Paper Set for Further Major Delay
With UK government ministers, among them gaming overlord Chris Philp, abandoning Boris Johnson’s dead-in-the-water administration, Britain’s long-awaited White Paper on gambling reform…