Daily: Britain’s Busted Flush - How Gambling Took Over

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🗓️ 17 April 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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How did Britain come to be one of the largest gambling markets in the world? Rob Davies, investigative journalist and author of Jackpot: How Gambling Conquered Britain, talks to Nick Cohen about how technology, advertising and liberalised laws combined to target some of the most vulnerable in society, the influence of the gambling lobby in British politics, and the urgent reforms the industry needs to make. “In a world where technology was evolving rapidly, gambling regulation simply wasn’t fit for purpose.” “For every person who is a gambling addict, six other people are affected by that.” “People get huge amounts of hospitality lavished on them when they can be relied on to lose thousands of pounds.” “For some people, the dopamine rush of putting their money at risk is irresistible.” “The gambling lobby has MPs in the contact book like you wouldn’t believe.” https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast Presented by Nick Cohen. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Producers: Jacob Archbold, Jelena Sofronijevic and Alex Rees. Audio production by Jade Bailey. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:21.8	British history by liberalising gambling.
1:24.6	Since then, the industry has exploded.
1:27.9	Millions of people, probably, are just enjoying themselves.
1:31.4	Countless thousands have become addicts, lives has been ruined, lives has been lost,
1:36.0	the gambling industry has spawned our politics, corrupted politics, paying for political
1:41.6	representation and is now one of the most fancied industries by stock pickers
1:47.2	anywhere as it prepares to move on from Britain to conquer America. A very timely book, Jackpot How Gambling Conquer Britain by Rob Davis, is out now. It
1:57.0	describes what happened, why it happens, and what can be done about it. I'm delighted to say that Rob is joining us now
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