[Richas]

The article is fairly negative but let's look at the meat.

The UK will allow sites based in the EU to advertise. They have agreed a set of standards for the ads published by the gambling commission and the industry has been bullied into agreeing that they will only advertise after 9pm. The actual news is fine by me.

The Guarian is a bit contradictory many of their columnists are anti gambling in that Methodist leftie don't let the poor waste their money sort of way yet Vicky Coren has a great weekly Poker column for them.

Meanwhile the anti gambling Daily Mail has its own gambling site that until other anti gambling types pointed it out did not meet the standards in UK law including links to help, proper +18 verification and the advertisng code (they showed people who were too young). UK has its own hypocrisy but this is a step forward not back.