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The betting ecosystem on Twitter is vast, diverse and highly active but despite the highly public nature of Twitter, much of this occurs under cover of darkness. Demos and the School of Management at the University of Bristol’s new report,...
If there was ever any doubt, the recent publication of statistics by the Gambling Commission reaffirmed the extent to which gambling, in one way or another, is woven into the fabric of British society. Six in ten of us have...
Brash, globalised, unequal and deeply indebted, the Premier League has often seemed a relevant metaphor for Britain’s economic model. And when it comes to international competitiveness our footballers too seem to have contracted the British disease of weak productivity. Between...
In her recent speech on the shared society, May articulated a cautiously optimistic world view. According to May, the UK is “a country built on the bonds of family, community and citizenship”. The bonds between us may have been pummelled...
One of the many odd features of our post-Brexit political landscape is that amongst all the shouting, rancour, and court cases, there seems to be an almost unBrexit-like consensus on its cause. Social and economic exclusion, or the feeling of...
The recent news that Dad’s Army, the wartime comedy, is to be re-made as a feature film was greeted with a sceptical response in the letters pages of The Times. ‘Sir’, wrote one correspondent, ‘A revival of Dad’s Army will not work because no-one under...
The bunny budget quickly became the bingo budget. When Grant Shapps tweeted CCHQ’s latest viral poster saying beer and bingo was what hardworking people enjoy it was quickly pounced upon by opponents and derided on Twitter as patronising and out of touch....
