The Guardian

• MPs criticise lottery operator Camelot over problem gambling

  21-10-2021 Magazines The Guardian 50

  App-based games put vulnerable people at risk and limit money given to good causes, say critics A cross-party group of MPs has called for...

• Mortgage lenders need to warm up to energy-efficient homes

  19-10-2021 Magazines The Guardian 51

  Government’s net zero plan wants to link energy upgrades to home financing, but policy details will be critical If you want to live in an energy...

• Hut Group misadventure offers lesson in control to wannabe Zuckerbergs | Nils Pratley

  18-10-2021 Magazines The Guardian 88

  Matthew Moulding’s U-turn is belated acceptance about pitfalls of denying proper voting rights It’s good to know Matthew Moulding has retained...

• Victoria Coren Mitchell: ‘I’m not at all competitive, which surprises people’

  10-10-2021 Magazines The Guardian 75

  The writer, presenter and professional poker player on taking part in Taskmaster, her pub quiz dilemma and a life surrounded by comedians...

• Britain need not be a nation of gamblers. We have to rein in this industry | Heather Wardle

  4-10-2021 Magazines The Guardian 86

  Massive profits are extracted from society’s most vulnerable. But the review of the gambling act will reinforce the status quo Gambling takes a...

• Stagecoach takeover could mark end of a profitable era for bus and train tycoons

  26-9-2021 Magazines The Guardian 72

  The fortunes of Brian Souter’s firm seem to have closely followed those of privatised public transport in the UK It is testament to their...

• Government could ban foreign betting firms from sponsoring UK football shirts

  23-9-2021 Magazines The Guardian 106

  Ministers want to close ‘loophole’ as part of gambling law reform DMCS also weighing up banning UK-based firms from club shirts The “loophole”...

• A windfall tax? Kwarteng better be sure it doesn’t get messy | Nils Pratley

  22-9-2021 Magazines The Guardian 79

  The gas crisis is global and HM Treasury can hardly send an invoice to Gazprom or Qatar Here’s a development in the energy crisis we didn’t...

• Ladbrokes owner bet big that it was undervalued. It won … big

  21-9-2021 Magazines The Guardian 85

  Liberalisation of US gambling law is fuelling a wave of buy-outs of more tech-savvy UK betting firms The stock market bargain during the wild...

• DraftKings makes $20bn offer for Ladbrokes and Coral owner Entain

  21-9-2021 Magazines The Guardian 189

  Shares in FTSE 100 gambling company rise by almost a fifth after approach from US rival Entain, the gambling company behind Ladbrokes and Coral,...

• I saw betting’s toxic sludge swamp Australian sport. Now it’s coming for America

  21-9-2021 Magazines The Guardian 87

  As sports gambling becomes legal in more and more US states, I remember how it slowly took over the social lives of my friends back home In July,...

• EasyJet needs investors on board as next takeover bid may be serious | Nils Pratley

  9-9-2021 Magazines The Guardian 109

  Wizz Air’s offer was rejected, of course, but £1.2bn rights issue hardly put fizz back into shares The pandemic has transformed the airline...

• William Hill deal raises question mark over 1,400 UK high-street shops

  9-9-2021 Magazines The Guardian 74

  Online casino firm 888 buys bookmaker’s non-US assets from Caesars in £2.2bn purchase The online casino company 888 has confirmed its £2.2bn...

• Suspected thief of winning scratchcard stopped at Rome airport

  5-9-2021 Magazines The Guardian 81

  Tobacco shop owner in Naples allegedly snatched customer’s card and sped off on his motor scooter Border police at Rome’s main airport have...

• High rollers ready to gamble on winning control of the UK’s lottery

  28-8-2021 Magazines The Guardian 196

  Camelot has run the game since it was launched, but as licence renewal looms, its high-profit formula is under renewed fire Nearly 22 million...