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Rob Davies

Rob Davies is a reporter for the Guardian, primarily covering business. His first book, Jackpot: How Gambling Conquered Britain, is now available to order

May 2025

  • Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands

    UK offshore havens miss deadline for transparency plans

    British Virgin Islands criticised for launching financial crime-fighting cartoon mascot before new legislation
  • A composite showing a giant slot machine towering above terraced houses

    Spin doctors: gambling firms adopt hard tactics to flood towns with 24-hour slot machines

    Companies deploy highly-paid lawyers and appear to mislead councillors – but local authorities are fighting back
  • A graphic montage of Denis Coates and Bet365 products

    Family owners of Bet365 weigh up potential £9bn sale of gambling empire

    Company headed by Denise Coates holds talks with Wall Street banks about full or partial sale of assets

April 2025

  • a row of draught beer pumps and a pint of beer

    Indie brewers kept out of UK bars and pubs by multinationals, study finds

  • Cardinals in red andwhite robes standing in a line at the Vatican.

    A punt on the pontiff: bookies expect flood of bets on who will be next pope

  • A man sits at a slot machine in an arcade.

    Government pauses plans to ease slot machine rules across Great Britain

  • An employee with protective clothing at blast furnace

    British Steel halts redundancy plans after government rescue

  • Viagogo failing to prevent potentially unlawful practices, say campaigners

  • Police freeze £1m as high street raids find cannabis farms and evidence of slavery

  • Ministers under pressure to nationalise British Steel if crisis talks fail

  • British Steel races against time as crisis talks end without deal

  • George Osborne and Ed Balls podcast censured for Viagogo promotion

  • Markets brace for another volatile week as Trump’s most punitive tariffs kick in

  • Companies House collects just £1,250 in fines in corruption crackdown

  • Sobering stuff: UK alcohol industry reels from impact of Trump tariffs

  • Tata redundancy scheme targeted older, non-Indian nationals in UK, tribunal hears

March 2025

  • Ahsan Mansur siiting in a blue suit in a glass-walled boardroom

    ‘My target is those who have looted my banks’: Bangladesh’s bank governor chases vanished assets

  • a late filing notice for HMRC self assessment

    Tax avoidance whistleblowers will earn share of HMRC proceeds, says Reeves

  • Rachel Reeves leaves 11 Downing Street before delivering the spring statement.

    Spring statement 2025: key points at a glance

  • Ed Sheeran performs at London's O2 Arena in 2021

    UK watchdog backs plan for cap on price of resale tickets in blow to touts

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