24.07.12
Fixed-Odds Betting Machines
Experts fear turbo-charged roulette machines have features that may lead to problem gambling.
UK bookmakers operate more than 32,000 betting terminals and now MPs suggest they be allowed more.
Formal agreements to help curb problem gambling offer little protection for vulnerable punters.
Campaigners fear MPs’ recommendation could open UK to ‘pokie sheds’.
Problem gambling costs the UK economy an estimated £3.6bn a year.
How a 20-second game transformed the betting industry.
Surveillance State
Privacy International challenges sales of surveillance equipment to brutal regimes.
20.07.12
Europe Under Scrutiny
How effective are the new transparency processes in European Parliament?
19.07.12
Corporate Watch
Gécamines cannot be liable for DRC’s debts, court rules.
17.07.12
Rough Justice
Last week Lady Hale was beaten to the presidency of the Supreme Court by Lord Neuberger.
13.07.12
Lobbying’s Hidden Influence
Powerful MPs’ committee says government lobbying plans should be redrafted or scrapped.
The 10 London players with the closest links to power.
Controversial secret trials will be extended into detention cases.
12.07.12
See which state has most people on death row – and which state executes most people.
Has the financial sector’s £1.3m donations to leading policy units affected their reports?
The ways lobbyists gain easy access to politicians and their aides.
Gritty fly-on-the-wall footage shows the lobbying process in action.
11.07.12
A secret lobbying deal will ‘force’ Britain to allow access to thousands of Indian workers.
TheCityUK offers its members privileged access to decision-makers.
10.07.12
Transparency International find financial institutions score worst on transparency.
