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It’s Not the role of Lotteries Commission to Increase Gambling

“It is not the role of the Lotteries Commission to increase gambling. It is supposed to run a series of virtual gambling monopolies, as efficiently as possible. It’s prime objective should be to prevent corruption. It is not supposed to be trying to increase its business. Unlike other businesses, more business for the Lotteries Commission is not a necessarily a good thing.” Said National MP Annabel Young today. “The Commission will have to rethink its view of its role if it thinks that it is there to push gambling.”

“We put pressure on the Lotteries Commission to produce more money for charities, sport and culture but it should not view this as a pressure to increase gambling turnover. In the last few days, we have seen some obvious areas where the Commission will be able to make some savings in the future to produce more money for good works without increasing its turnover.”

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>