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Aug 23, 2020 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Was one of the linos singing the Champions League anthem with his hand over his heart? #PSGBayern #CLfinal
Looks like it...
Belting it out like Stuart Pearce. "The chaaaampiooooooons!"

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Nov 15, 2023
Exclusive: Former Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich used offshore vehicles to fund tens of millions in football-related expenses that ought to have been paid for by the club, leaked files suggest. ⚽

Experts say Chelsea could face points deduction. 🧵

theguardian.com/world/2023/nov…
The transactions can today be revealed in detail thanks to #CyprusConfidential, a cache of 3.6m files leaked by an anonymous source to @ICIJorg and Germany’s Paper Trail Media @paper_trail_m , which shared access with the Guardian, @TBIJ and other reporting partners. 🧵
@ICIJorg @paper_trail_m @TBIJ Beneficiaries of the payments include agents linked to title-winning players and managers, club officials and even companies connected to the owners of other clubs. 🧵

Full details here 👇

theguardian.com/world/2023/nov…
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Nov 20, 2022
Boycotting the World Cup is a laudable stance.

I really want to watch the games though and, having written a fair bit about Qatar (links to follow), I don't feel like I'd be susceptible to sportswashing by doing so. So what can I do instead? Well... 🧵
I've come up with a sort of boycott offset instead.

I'll watch the World Cup but I won't buy anything from firms that are part or wholly owned by Qatar, such as Sainsbury's. Qatar takes £s in dividends from these businesses, as per @kayeena 🧵

theguardian.com/business/2022/…
I'd argue using Sainsbury's, British Airways, Heathrow, Shell, Severn Trent etc is a more direct relationship with Qatar than watching the tournament. You can watch a game and feel no differently about Qatar. You can't shop at Sainsbury's without funding Qatar's dividend. 🧵
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Mar 9, 2022
Breaking: SkyVegas fined £1.2m for sending free casino “spins” to recovering addicts during Safer Gambling Week.

Comes at a sensitive time for the British gambling industry, which has been at pains to show it has improved its attitude to social responsibility. [1/n]
The government is in the midst of a landmark review of how the sector is regulated, with proposals due to be published in a white paper expected within weeks.

Yet major brands have been hit with a series of penalties for failing to protect vulnerable people recently. [2/n]
888 Casino, which is buying William Hill UK, was fined £9.4m last week over failings that saw customers rack up huge losses during depths of the Covid pandemic. BetVictor fined £2m a week earlier. [3/n]

theguardian.com/society/2022/m…
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Jan 23, 2022
Exclusive: A group of MPs, several of whom have enjoyed £000's in hospitality from the gambling industry, wrote a report about the industry's regulator, @GamRegGB. (THREAD)

theguardian.com/society/2022/j…
Serious bodies such as the National Audit Office and the Public Accounts Committee, have written reports about the Gambling Commission, generally finding that it's underfunded and not doing enough to oversee the industry. (2/?)

theguardian.com/society/2020/f…
But the industry-friendly MPs, perhaps unsurprisingly, found the reverse. They criticised the regulator for trying to reduce problem gambling. In true "you couldn't make it up" fashion, they said the regulator's efforts were causing "mental harm". To the gambling industry. (3/?)
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Dec 6, 2021
Labour's apparent lack of policy on gambling has been a little odd given a white paper is due soon.

But it's not quite as odd as the closeness between the party's last three spokespeople on gambling and the head of the gambling lobby, er...ex-Labour MP Michael Dugher. [THREAD]
Since Keir Starmer's latest reshuffle, Labour's spokesperson on gambling is Alex Davies-Jones.

She was recently a guest of the Betting & Gaming Council (BGC), headed by Michael Dugher, at a cost of £444. Throw karaoke nights into the mix too, I guess.
Before that, Labour's gambling spox was Alex Sobel. He was earnest about reform when I met him but past closeness to Michael Dugher does rather undermine the idea of a "powerful anti-gambling lobby" as one recent op-ed put it.

Who has influential MPs on speed dial here?
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Mar 19, 2021
*presses send and falls down dead*

Revealed: UK furlough scheme pays out millions to foreign states and tax exiles theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/m…
theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/m…
We cross-referenced government furlough disclosures with data from Companies House and found furlough money received by:-

- Four Saudi royals
- The state of Qatar
- The ruler of Dubai and the state
- Billionaire tax exiles Jim Ratcliffe
- Lord Ashcroft
- The BNP
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