Matt Zarb-Cousin

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Thornberry, 64, is joined in becoming a dame by the actor Carmen Munroe, 92, one of the founders of Talawa, the UK's leading black theatre company, and the former Labour health secretary Patricia Hewitt. Hewitt, 74, who is the chair of the NHS Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Health Board, apologised in 2014 over links between the National Council for Civil Liberties, of which she was general secretary in the 1970s, and the Paedophile Information Exchange.
A boar’s brain explodes after reading Kevin’s reply
In 2022, the industry's lobby group, the Betting & Gaming Council (BGC), said a compulsory levy would be a "backward step". The BGC has since decided to support the levy and said on Wednesday that its members gave £50m to tackle gambling-related harm last year. The lobby group highlighted that the "vast majority" of people gamble safely, including on the National Lottery. It also pointed to a 2021 NHS survey that found 0.4% of the population have a gambling problem, ignoring a more recent estimate of 2.5% from the Gambling Commission. "The tone of this announcement suggests the government is at risk of losing perspective of these facts, while simply dancing to the tune of anti-gambling prohibitionists, which serves no one," said the BGC's chief executive, Grainne Hurst, a former Ladbrokes executive and one-time aide to the ex-Tory MP Philip Davies.
Smartphones have changed everything. But if I type William Hill into my phone now, it's blocked. I put the block on two years ago. It's called Gamban. I pay £23 a year for that and cannot get one gambling company on my phone. It's the best invention ever in the history of inventions. Gambling on the phone is just so easy.