Betting
The anti-gambling racket
New regulations are not based on expertise
Cards on the table
Failure to reform problem gambling is harming millions and costing us billions
Tip? Don’t bet on it
Stephen Pollard: he’s not the man the bookies fear
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
