Anthropologist of gambling and horseracing
London
Joined April 2012
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Rebecca Cassidy retweeted
At present the @GamRegGB & local authorities have a statutory duty to aim to permit a harmful industry. A new Gambling Act based on the prevention of harm is needed urgently to protect the public from the gambling industry's exploitative practices & products.
'We have a duty to protect people from gambling harm'
Minister for Gambling policy @StuartAndrew busts some myths on financial risk checks and explains how the new system will create a safer experience online
Watch 👇
Rebecca Cassidy retweeted
This inquiry focuses on a health-harming industry & how to regulate it – can we assume that it will hear from Directors of Public Health & leaders in the field of commercial determinants of health, many of whom work in the UK? 🧵committees.parliament.uk/wor…
Rebecca Cassidy retweeted
Disease resistant good fruit quality cultivars should be the focus of fruit breeding. Newly released disease susceptible 🍎 🍏 cultivars need frequent sprays & are costly to the environment. We need responsible #PlantBreeding for sustainable future.
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The government is soon to release its gambling white paper, with much discussion in the media this week about what it may contain. Everyone in the UK should be taking note as this white paper touches us all 🧵
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We analysed three gambling industry-funded youth education programmes asking if and how they align with industry interests and policy preferences
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🚨Thanks to @maizie333 @CDRG_LSHTM for leading on this new paper “The politics and fantasy of the gambling education discourse: An analysis of gambling industry-funded youth education programmes in the United Kingdom” thread below👇 #CDOH @lshtm
Rebecca Cassidy retweeted
Please use this template to write to your MP about the gambling review, it takes only a few seconds
We’re just weeks away from the government publishing its ‘white paper’ of recommendations for reforming our gambling laws 🥳
Please use this template to write to your MP, it takes just a few seconds and will help expedite Minister @CPhilpOfficial’s review
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Rebecca Cassidy retweeted
A new interview with Anthony Pickles about gambling and his book Money Games for Anthropology Books Today! youtu.be/i7sKR-Cmhds?t=7
#AnthroTwitter #Anthropology @GoldAnth @ProfRCassidy @OceaniaJournal
Rebecca Cassidy retweeted
⚠️NEW EPISODE⚠️
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Rebecca Cassidy retweeted
Impressive review by @CecileKnai et al (great & good of commercial determinants of health) on unhealthy commodity industries
👉call for multidisciplinary systems research to inform development of effective public policy
🦾Need organising too
bit.ly/3baMunQ @bmj_latest
Rebecca Cassidy retweeted
Enjoyed interviewing Lana Swartz about her book: New Money - How Payment Became Social Media! Great book, enjoyed reading! Link to the interview:youtu.be/Z3op5l0WMAU
@lanalana @ProfRCassidy
Rebecca Cassidy retweeted
Studies of gambling harms have often been limited to small samples of self-reported harm. Muggleton et al. show associations between gambling , financial distress, and other harms in bank records of 6.5 million individuals buff.ly/3jj3n3x
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Banking transactions and gambling harms - @RachelVolberg's News and Views piece on the Muggleton et al. study nature.com/articles/s41562-0…
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NEW: Study finds football mags aimed at six-year-olds are full of gambling logos – with BBC’s @MOTDmag showing one on ‘every other page’.
Children will always be bombarded with gambling marketing until sponsorship and advertising is banned in sport. @GoldsmithsUoL @ProfRCassidy
Rebecca Cassidy retweeted
Brave man, very sad ... then I read that gambling firms are bragging about giving donations out !! 😡Giving away addicts money more like ! A life is lost every day from gambling addiction @BorisJohnson @GambleWithLives @the_bigstep
Rebecca Cassidy retweeted
Early prints of LESS IS MORE are out! If you write for an outlet that would be interested in running a review, please get in touch by email and we'll make sure to get you a copy.
Rebecca Cassidy retweeted
Since 1980, 28% of new income from global GDP growth has gone to the richest 1%.
In other words, nearly a third of all the labour we’ve rendered, all the resources we’ve extracted, and all the CO2 we’ve emitted over the past half century has been done to make rich people richer.
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Wow! Looking like a good investment to all who bought an original.
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Ladbrokes boss Kenny Alexander, who earnt £65m+ in job, retires to spend time with his family.
Online gaming takings at parent GVC up by almost half during lockdown. Overall revenue was down a fifth because of the closure of shops.
Shares down 5.3% today, up 150% since March.