GambleAware Expresses ‘Concern’ As Its Purpose Doubles

It seems the diligent folks at GambleAware, the esteemed charitable bulwark against the nation’s insatiable appetite for wagering, have expressed a profoundly measured ‘concern’. This understated sentiment arises from the rather inconvenient truth that the very metric they exist to mitigate – gambling harm – has, over the past five years, precisely doubled.

One might almost suspect a perverse form of job security in such figures. While lesser mortals might view a 100% increase in the problem they're funded to combat as a slight setback, GambleAware appears to have taken it in stride, perhaps chalking it up to an increasingly effective *identification* of suffering, rather than a rampant explosion of gambling addiction across the United Kingdom. It’s a delicate distinction, allowing one to both lament the suffering and, subtly, acknowledge the expansive new avenues for intervention that such growth undoubtedly provides. The future, it seems, is bright for those tracking the spiralling descent.