{"id":383934,"date":"2025-08-30T01:50:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T01:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/383934\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T01:50:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T01:50:22","slug":"declan-lynch-online-gambling-has-finally-captured-that-half-of-the-human-race-which-had-always-eluded-the-bookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/383934\/","title":{"rendered":"Declan Lynch: \u2018Online gambling has finally captured that half of the human race which had always eluded the bookies\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nRadio reviews\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Online gambling has surged among women. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/24308719-9d84-4afc-93c7-f11828bf8c7a.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Online gambling has surged among women. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">One of the finest traditions of our inky trade is the way a columnist can seize on an issue that is otherwise \u00adignored and keep plugging away at it until it gets some attention. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Last week I argued that the \u00adavalanche of radio items about our presidential election that was then about 80 DAYS AWAY, was obviously excessive \u2013 as  avalanches tend to be \u2013 but that it acted as a kind of soother for our political class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Radio reviews Online gambling has surged among women. Photo: Getty One of the finest traditions of our inky&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[133221,105,29760,218,125688,48471,133222,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-383934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-declan-lynch","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-heather-humphreys","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-people-culture-magazine","13":"tag-presidential-election","14":"tag-sean-lock","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115115212338816559","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}