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I've just spent two days at a Board Strategy offsite, during which we did a deep dive into Betfair's three-year plan. As that would suggest, we did a great deal of looking into the future. The contrast, then, to emerge from that forward-thinking discussion to…

Word reaches my ears from Australia that Jamie Stier, the former Hong Kong Jockey Club Director of Stewards who has just been appointed Director of Regulation at the BHA, completely canned Betfair on Sunday morning on Sky Channel - the racing broadcaster owned by our…

Word reaches my ears from Australia that Jamie Stier, the former Hong Kong Jockey Club Director of Stewards who has just been appointed Director of Regulation at the BHA, completely canned Betfair on Sunday morning on Sky Channel - the racing broadcaster owned by our…

Having blogged so recently about the similarity between gambling and banking on the back of the Gambling Commission's survey about attitudes towards the former, I was struck by this description of the latter in Jerry White's history of London in the Nineteenth Century (Jonathan Cape,…

Having blogged so recently about the similarity between gambling and banking on the back of the Gambling Commission's survey about attitudes towards the former, I was struck by this description of the latter in Jerry White's history of London in the Nineteenth Century (Jonathan Cape,…