by Brian Taylor | May 6, 2026 | News
The Gambling Commission has tried to calm one of the loudest fears around new financial risk checks: that players will suddenly have to hand over more bank statements, payslips or extra ID documents because they’ve hit a regulatory trigger. Tim Miller’s recent...
by Brian Taylor | Apr 29, 2026 | News
That phrase carries some weight. Once politicians start calling gambling advertising a public health issue, the debate shifts. It stops being only about whether an individual advert is misleading, annoying or badly placed. It becomes a question about population-level...
by Brian Taylor | Apr 23, 2026 | News
This is a growing concern, and I can see why. If you’re the UK regulator trying to work out how big the illegal gambling market really is, and how effective your disruption work is, VPNs are a nuisance from several directions at once. They hide traffic, muddy the...
by Rob Hill | Apr 10, 2026 | News
The headline sounds simple enough: more than £25 million is being handed out for gambling harm prevention. My first reaction is that this is good news, because prevention has too often been the underloved middle child of British gambling policy. Treatment gets the...
by Brian Taylor | Apr 9, 2026 | News
Plenty of UK gamblers don’t want more scrutiny, don’t want to hand over personal financial documents, and don’t trust the system to stop there once it starts. But I think this debate gets distorted by lazy thinking, industry spin and a refusal to admit that some of...
by Rob Hill | Apr 8, 2026 | News
I think they are, yes, but perhaps not in the way that the headline makes you imagine. Chatbots didn’t invent the offshore gambling market, and they didn’t invent the demand for sites that sit outside British rules. What they’re doing is turning that old problem into...
