We're sponsoring a session on gambling and public health at @thefabians.bsky.social Health and Care Mission Summit.

Gambling harm must be understood first as a health harm. Fantastic that this will be discussed today with @annieashton2705.bsky.social

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Our client Annie Ashton calls for the Gambling Commission to publish the number and names of firms it has put into special measures, and the revenues surrendered:

“This information should be public knowledge and it should be scrutinised.” ⁦

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

“The whole situation with Luke was completely avoidable... You start to see these errors allowing for deaths to occur and lessons are not being learned at all” – @annieashton2705.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The secrecy of special measures that allows operators, like Betfair, to avoid regulatory action is completely inadequate and allows for deaths to occur. I have now launched a judical review claim to challange the GC's decision not to investigate Betfair.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The coroners' system in England and Wales is outdated and has failed to properly investigate gambling-related suicides for many families. Reforms are desperately needed.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

New Zealand has become one of the first countries in the world to announce an outright ban on Greyhound racing, citing the injuries and deaths of racing dogs. Do you think it’s time for the UK to do the same?

The international interest in the expansion of gambling continues. This is for any Polish speakers out there…
biznes.newseria.pl/news/hazard-...

(Interview is in English though…)

@thelancet.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social

My latest on Substack, if you find the topic interesting please subscribe

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children’s education:

stealth marketing exposed

The Betting and Gaming Council simply chooses not to use recent official statistics because they show gambling harm to be more than 6 times higher than the old stat they use – one rule for them, another for everyone else?

@privateeyenews.bsky.social

He was called Frazor and was known by quite a few people. Nice chap! Really sad.

In Leicester this week, a man's body was found in a tent in an Asda carpark. A man failed by the system who did not deserve to die. In other news, the necessary royal banquet looked fancy. 👌

EXC - Gambling reform campaigners have called on Sir Lindsay Hoyle to apologise after the Speaker went to officially open the new Betfred HQ

The HQ is not in his constituency and now bears a plaque marking his opening and using his Commons title

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

AFSG's Response to the Government's Statutory Levy Announcement afsg.org/2024/12/02/a... via
@afsguk.bsky.social

www.nesta.org.uk/report/nouri...

A Political Manual for Improving the Nation’s Health

Obviously applies to food. Equally applies to so many other things

Full of wisdom and practical advice

excellent from @henrydimbleby.bsky.social and @dollyvantulleken.bsky.social

BC[.]GAME is gone in the United Kingdom. Will Leicester FC players still wear jerseys bearing their name this weekend?

Well this is embarrassing for @LCFC. Shocked that they lord this awful sponsor on their kit? Nope! They have profitted from dark money 💰 and have no qualms about taking it from the darkest areas of the gambling industry. The senior team have awful morals and are ruining the club.

'The government has taken its first steps towards strengthening gambling harm legislation today'

Long awaited, a step in the right direction. Well done to all who have campaigned for this
Next: Prevention
Ban gambling advertising inc incentives
Investigate every suicide
www.gov.uk/government/n...

Finally! Great news 👏

It's time to end this cruel "sport" once and for all.

@thegreenparty.bsky.social are working towards a total ban on greyhound racing and we'll continue to amplify that call.

So @LCFC's front of shirt crypto/gambling sponser 'BC. game' has gone bankrupt. 🙄👌
www.lcfc.com/news/4172754...

People's lives are more important than the gambling industry's profits.

Once again @annieashton2705.bsky.social reminds of this simple fact.

It's about time somebody at the Gambling Commission and in Government listened to her.

www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

How much worse does it actually have to get before the Gambling Commission switches that switch and investigates?

www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Whatever the merits of the reforms to inheritance tax, the government could have avoided this row with farmers (over a policy that will raise £560m) by following the IPPR and SMF’s calls to raise online gambling duty (doubling it would have raised £900m). Why they didn’t do so raises some questions!