UK business comment

[Richas]

Not sure this is the right place but as I was trawling these myself I thought others might be interested.

Guardian (Liberal Left)
Business comment “religious right and sports get their way”
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1886043,00.html

Guardian Main Editorial – critical of the companies a bit anti gambling but calls for betting companies to come onshore and pay UK tax
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,,1885992,00.html

Guardian Business Columnist Nils Pratley
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1886038,00.html
Critical of fund managers and companies, calls for them to come onshore and pay tax as the best business strategy and mentions customers are consenting adults and Poker as a game of skill.


Telegraph (Right Wing)
Business Comment – protectionism gorn mad
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/mai.../03/ccom03.xml

Times (Murdoch owned fairly right wing)
Business comment – protectionism (mentions Harrah bid)
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13129-2385529,00.html
includes details of sporting bets lobbying spend and First in 2008

Times - where next article? again says it’s protectionist
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13129-2385509,00.html

Independent (Liberal left)
Business Comment headline “Puritanism and Protectionism”
http://news.independent.co.uk/busine...cle1783813.ece
Quote:
Frank Fahrenkopf, president of the American Gaming Association, which represents bricks-and-mortar gambling business in the US, said: "It is a strange meeting of the Republican party's religious right, which feels it has an obligation to stop people living with the Devil in Hell, and the far left of the Democrats, which think that some people are not smart enough to spend their own money and need to be protected."

Second Independent business comment piece “Return to the days of prohibition”
http://news.independent.co.uk/busine...cle1783815.ece
Port Bill and Ban protectionist “hypocrisy…breathtaking..narrow minded”

Financial Times (“voice of business”) – (need to register for free 15 day trial to get whole article but they want credit card details so I did not)
www.ft.com

Front Page Lead article in the paper is the ban.

Main Editorial – measured criticism of the “inconsistent and clumsy” “bluntly effective” ban, long term expects prohibition to fail.

Lex comment column “process deplorable” but mostly on technical details of the listings

FT breaking news - SportingBet chief calling for support against US from UK and EU governments

[barongreenback]

Nice work. There's a problem with the Times links, though. Only half the URL is in the hyperlink. Copy/paste works ok. Thanks

[munkey]

tks richas, oh and thanks for those links to Victorias articles. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[StevieG]

Thanks for the finds. Fixed the broken links below.

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Guardian (Liberal Left)
Business comment “religious right and sports get their way”
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1886043,00.html

Guardian Main Editorial – critical of the companies a bit anti gambling but calls for betting companies to come onshore and pay UK tax
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/st...885992,00.html

Guardian Business Columnist Nils Pratley
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1886038,00.html
Critical of fund managers and companies, calls for them to come onshore and pay tax as the best business strategy and mentions customers are consenting adults and Poker as a game of skill.

Times (Murdoch owned fairly right wing)
Business comment – protectionism (mentions Harrah bid)
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/ar...385529,00.html
includes details of sporting bets lobbying spend and First in 2008

Times - where next article? again says it’s protectionist
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/ar...385509,00.html


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[Jintster]

Here's a BBC account of an radio interview with Nigel Payne

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5401452.stm

If you hunt around a bit you can probably listen to the interview itself. It was on Radio 4 at about 6.00 a.m. GMT. He came across well I thought.

[Richas]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/

This is the listen again link (takes a while to load) the interview is at 6:15am so first dowload and a bit of fast forwarding, it is a very strong interview well worth listening to including his anger at the US carveouts and the way that the bill does not stop children gambling on US sites. After the interview they talk about the effect on shares.

[Richas]

PS for those that don't know this Radio 4 programme Today is very influential, listened to by pretty much all the politicos and business leaders (when the politicos aren't pretending to be hip by listening to the Arctic Monkeys on their i-pods).

[Melchiades]

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(when the politicos aren't pretending to be hip by listening to the Arctic Monkeys on their i-pods).

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Hahahahah.