Daniel Waugh

The Gambling Commission believes that each week, Britain's casinos are mobbed with thousands of 11-year-olds playing blackjack and roulette. Is the gambling market regulator in need of a reality check?
The Quest for Britain’s Mythical Casino Kids danwaugh.substack.com/p/the-quest-fo…

Losing it in Lima. This week, the CEO of the Gambling Commission flew all the way to Peru to complain about legitimate criticism of the regulator's statistics by people who weren't even there. Is this normal behaviour? What about the whataboutery...? danwaugh.substack.com/p/what-about-t…

Should the Gambling Commission fund activism and junk science, suppress evidence and lobby for tax increases? Why I’m ‘mad as hell’…and why others should be too danwaugh.substack.com/p/time-to-get-…

Thanks Lydia - this goes deep at the GC. Over the past 6 years it has repeatedly published unreliable statistics, openly funded anti-gambling activism, misrepresented research, suppressed evidence (eg punter opposition to affordability checks) etc. We need some sunlight on this

Gambling Commission this week reveals policymakers were misled about official statistics on youth gambling; and that, despite children being unable to tell the difference between real life and computer games, we should believe them anyway.danwaugh.substack.com/p/jumping-the-…