Nick Harvey
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Nick Harvey
@nick-harvey.bsky.social
Manchester-based dad and Head of External Affairs @gamblingwithlives.bsky.social
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Gambling is doing enormous damage to individuals and communities
April 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Betting giants spared regulatory action after secret deals with watchdog
Betting giants spared regulatory action after secret deals with watchdog
Controversial ‘special measures’ regime under fire after failures were not made public Betting firms have been reaching secret deals with Britain’s gambling watchdog, including surrendering revenues for failings that are kept out of the public domain,…
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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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
December 5, 2024 at 4:32 PM
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This was my mum, around the time I raised a complaint to Merkur Slots. She'd spent 16 hours and £2k gambling in their venue, with not a single safer gambling interaction recorded. No one even asked if she was OK.
She died while the gambling commission investigation is still dragging on.
November 21, 2024 at 2:51 PM
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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!
November 19, 2024 at 6:57 PM
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Safer gambling week is upon us. Prepare for an onslaught of gambling adverts disguised as promoting 'safer gambling tools', designed to make people believe that if they are addicted to gambling its all their own fault for not using the tools correctly.
November 18, 2024 at 8:46 AM