Annie Panczel

Coronial Researcher

[Annie Panczel @anniepanczel]

@BBCNews Thoughts are with Fiona, it has been an unbelievable battle. Shouldn’t have been.

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Coroner set to deliver findings in Noah Donohoe inquest https://t.co/yUvqJoInuY

[James Noyes @jranoyes]

“AI should be part of a public debate”
“decisions made by all of us”

This doesn’t mean anything. It is mumbo jumbo dressed up as an abstract appeal to civil society, because the reality is that our political leaders do not know what to do with this problem. There is no concrete roadmap for achievable regulation: what the timescale looks like, what the costs look like, what the objective looks like. Instead we’re left with “we need a public debate”.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt used to mock national governments by talking about the “nine-times gap” to describe the disparity between the tech industry and state regulation. Business moves 3x faster than government, he said, and tech moves 3x faster than traditional business. But AI has made that nine-times gap now even wider, and the situation is made more impossible by the fact that many former government and regulatory leaders end up working for tech companies because it pays top end salaries (Sunak and Clegg would be examples in the UK; and in the US, many Gov’t personnel at the highest level are deeply embedded within the decentralised tech and finance sectors).

The public have zero agency when it comes to getting a hold on this. Obama knows that. But at the same time, public order must be maintained. Hence the mumbo jumbo about “dialogue”: many of our political leaders either do not know how to solve the problem or are benefitting from the problem, so what they give instead is abstract and deflecting language about “public debate”. It is the modern equivalent of Marie Antoinette: let them eat cake!

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Five night sky events to look out for this autumn https://t.co/LIU4naE7zF

[Martin Jones @MartinJ25530514]

Despite attempts by the Gambling Commission and gambling operators to present the “we did nothing wrong” argument, coroners are now more willing to accept the reality that gambling disorder is a fundamental contributory factor in suicide.
Industry denial won’t work any more.

[Annie Panczel @anniepanczel]

Delicately cool.

[Annie Panczel @anniepanczel]

@stevenctilley In England and Wales?

[Annie Panczel @anniepanczel]

Ok, so there is a lot of misinformation here so I will address it.
First point, my post contained no “wildly and wholly unsubstantiated claims about deaths in gambling”
I stated that evidence of gambling harms is now being recorded in death records. This is true.
Geoff claims that “only accurate medium for recording suicides in anyway that involve gambling is [through] ONS” also not true. ONS do not audit GRS.
Geoff also claims that ONS’ own “careful analysis shows…1 death per year in the past 19 years” which is also not true. As already stated, ONS do not audit or analyse this data. In fact, ONS is not using ICD-11 coding system yet where ‘pathological gambling’ has been replaced with gambling disorder. This means that even where gambling disorder is recorded on a death certificate, it is not showing up as such in statistical data.
ONS also has a bad track record of underreporting secondary causes especially in suicide cases where a narrative conclusion has been given.

[Annie Panczel @anniepanczel]

@chrisgambler247 Chris, did you send a screenshot of my quote retweet to Geoff Banks?

[Annie Panczel @anniepanczel]

Tobacco companies denied their products were related to deaths for a long time and were successful for a while. Operators have done the same. Tide is turning. Evidence of gambling harm is now being recorded on death records. This will not be ignored.

[Chris Fawcett @chrisgambler247]

The anti-gambling lobby will never succeed long term like the anti-tobacco lobby did. Tobacco regulation has moved relentlessly in one direction: towards extinction. Gambling regulation has gone back and forth for thousands of years. Why? The products are fundamentally different.

[Matt Zarb-Cousin @mattzarb]

The gambling industry needs to be constrained as much as possible. It cannot be trusted to self-regulate or to prevent addiction when its entire commercial model depends on it. Thankfully this govt will end the legal obligation to grow the industry by revoking “aim to permit”

[Charl Hennessy @charlhennessy1]

As the new football season approaches we are very pleased that the education and action against Tradgey Chanting and Death mocking at Football matches will continue.

In 2023 I launched a petition to criminalise Tragedy chanting and death mocking at Football Matches.
Calls for action and tougher sanctions for those taking part in it were falling on deaf ears.
The petiton obtained just under 18,000 signatures and with the hard work of many others, including Spirit of Shankly, LFC, Hillsborough fanilies and Hillsborough Survivors groups, as well as other Premier League clubs standing side by side.....
it lead to the Crown Prosecution Service issuing new guidance which set out how tragedy chanting at football matches in England and Wales could lead to prosecution under existing legislation.

It also lead to the Passion Not Poison campaign with the Premier League.
Margaret Aspinall doing a fantastic and very personal piece (linked below)

And a personal discussion with myself, @Carra23 @JoeblottJoe and @SeniorGareth
about the impact Tradgey Chanting. (Linked below)

Words matter.
The deaths of others, the suffering and mental torment of others is not your football banter.
Tragedy chanting has a real impact on others and real-life consequences.
Keep the Passion.
Protect the game.
Kick it out.

A huge amount of thanks to @JoeblottJoe
and @WeAreTheFSA for their dedication and commitment to this very important issue.
Enjoy the 26/27 season, whoever you support ❤️

https://t.co/asb0qUDVx0

[James Noyes @jranoyes]

Making it harder for new premises to open by scrapping the statutory “aim to permit” is a major step forward. However, people are sick of the number of premises that are already on their high streets. The total number of existing vaping and gaming venues needs to go down, otherwise the problem identified by the Prime Minister will never be resolved.

The Government must therefore ensure in its consultation that local authorities are given the option to review and revoke *existing* licences, and not just refuse new ones.

[Matt Zarb-Cousin @mattzarb]

How many losing gamblers were refunded during this 40-minute “glitch” window? Gamblers are treated with the lowest standard of consumer protection of any sector. Still no Gambling Ombudsman despite successive governments promising one. Badly needed to adjudicate on these issues!

[James Noyes @jranoyes]

The Prime Minister has clearly listened to, and agrees with, this message: higher tax on social harm, lower tax on social good.

I expect a tax increase on high street gambling venues to be introduced in the coming months, to balance business rates relief for local pubs.

[FosseHub @FosseHub]

🚨💣 Leicester City owners are exploring an option of selling the club [@FinancialTimes] 🎖️

[Annie Panczel @anniepanczel]

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[Annie Panczel @anniepanczel]

Improving the Detection of Gambling in Suicide Death: An Investigation to Inform Surveillance of Gambling Harms | SUCHT https://t.co/KuUeMeB2vN