Government

In the blue corner we have Richard Desmond, media mogul turned lottery entrepreneur. And in the red corner we have the UK Gambling Commission, the much-maligned regulator of the betting sector in the United Kingdom. The two parties are set to go to court in October 2025 after Desmond and his legal team secured an […]

Just as the government starts to flesh out the proposed legislative changes to the UK gambling industry, as first revealed in their White Paper, they go and call a general election. Brits will go to the polls on July 4, with the latest bookmakers’ odds suggesting that the Conservatives will be turfed out of Downing […]

As regulators go, the Alderney Gambling Commission does not exactly have the most extensive remit. But betting is legal on the Channel Islands, so therefore the islanders need a regulator that is tasked with protecting them from rogue operators. The Alderney Gambling Commission is responsible for exactly that, managing licence requests from bookmakers and casinos […]

Much of the focus of the government’s reimagined vision for the UK gambling industry has focused specifically on the online sector. Many have felt that land-based operators – be it casinos, bingo halls and arcades – have been overlooked in the publishing of the government’s White Paper, which calls for regulatory reforms including customer affordability […]

After months of toing and froing, the UK Gambling Commission has finally revealed firm details of the affordability checks that punters may be subjected to as part of the government’s industry reform. In response to the governmental White Paper, published in April 2023, the regulator has confirmed that they will be rolling out a pilot […]