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HOLDING BETTING AUTHOR TO BOOK: Rolf Johnson weighs up a new book and the ongoing ‘affordability’ saga

Rolf Johnson reviews Darragh McGee’s provocative new book Imitation Games while examining the latest twist in racing’s long-running battle over gambling affordability checks.
Racegoers holding up umbrellas due to the rain during Derby Day

The announcement by the Gambling Commission that Affordability Checks are going to be doubled down on, has sent racing into a spin. After all this is a democracy isn’t it?

However you define that word – the one that creaks “giving the people what they want, good and hard” - appears to be the one the Government, or rather their acolytes on the Commission, have heeded.
Maybe they (who they?) also read this book* just published, which finds bookmakers guilty of sucking blood out of punters – and life from the games on which they bet.
You decide – if the Gambling Commission lets you – on the me...

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