Fabulous day in London yesterday, a little bit warm though. Walking from Westminster to Tower Bridge raising awareness of gambling harm, in particular with regard to women - who people often don't think get impacted by this addiction as much as men, guess what, they do ☀️

Imagine you're a media giant with 23M users, but 5% drive 80% of your revenue. Would you stop advertising to them? Now apply that to gambling. That's why “high-value” players don’t get flagged—they get rewarded. It’s not about safety. It’s about profit. #evidiencebased

Hey Gambling Commission, I don’t think these “safer gambling” systems actually work. I tested 20 operators myself for 10 years. They claim to track using these metrics …yet I slipped through all of them. Where’s the accountability?

£1.7M stolen by a financial controller — 123 payments, 6 years, unnoticed. Banks and gambling operators: why no questions on where the money came from? Compliance gaps cut both ways. #datacontrol #GamblingHarm #blackmarket

Banks are part of the game called profit for shareholders

what happens when the Gambling Commission fines BOYLE Sports for AML failures? Fine £2.8m Forced to finally write proper AML policies Senior staff get yearly AML school Need qualified MLRO (should’ve had one anyway) Licence with stricter rules Apart from fine doesn’t sound 2 bad right?

Flutter Entertainment got hit with a data breach. What leaked? Names, addresses, contact info—no BIG deal, right? PR nailed it: “incident contained, no passwords/card data, regulators notified.” Now we wait to see how bad it really is. And the ICO - Information Commissioner's Office Let’s be honest does it ever bite?

A national conference on gambling addiction—sponsored by a gambling operator. You couldn’t script it better. When addiction is treated as a feature, not a failure, the message is clear: “We know it harms people. But it’s built into the model.” #GamblingReform Betting and Gaming Council

What happens when an accountant steals £2.4m to fund gambling? No one asks where the money came from. High‑velocity deposits. Large sums. No red flags. Are we in the Wild West—or is this "regulated"? Why isn’t anyone tracking the money before it’s lost?