Government

If the Conservative Party are going to down, they’re going to go down swinging – and making a few quid, if the latest allegations in the General Election betting saga are to be believed. Barely a week after one of Rishi Sunak’s Parliamentary aides admitting to betting on the date of the UK General Election […]

For more than a year now, a handful of sportsbooks and betting exchanges have been offering odds on when the next UK General Election would be held. It’s a strange market to bet on, given that the decision on the date that voters will head to the ballots is decided by the prime minister and […]

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 […]