This pernicious addiction ruins lives and families. The current rules are insufficient.
Any conservative with a social conscience should recognise that there is justification to reduce the stakes on Fixed-Odds Betting Terminals.
The existence of my family bookmakers is in jeopardy.
Also: Scottish punters back the Union. SDLP MP who ended Powell’s parliamentary career dies.
Those who compare the financial sector to the gambling industry show little understanding of either. Whereas casinos, bookies and the like carefully manage their level of exposure to potential loss, the banks have opened themselves right up to the most extreme of downside risks – the so-called ‘black swan’ events popularised by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. […]
The slogan was invented by Donald Trump in the 1980s, and has since been used to attack every new form of gambling. Each time it turns out to be bogus.