Right to the Source is back with more data deep dives, debates and diatribes, this week bringing in special guest Jon Bruford to dissect Gordon Brown stepping into the GB gambling tax debate.  The former Prime Minister and Chancellor has thrown his weight behind a proposal to hike gambling duty to 50% of GGR in Great Britain. Only his proposal, and the evidence he puts forward to support it, doesn’t really hold up to scrutiny.  GB gambling tax hike: What do the reformists actually want? Ultimately, he’s pitching gambling as a solution to child poverty. Considering gambling is regularly decried as the cause of poverty by the anti-industry lobby, that’s quite the volte-face. And how can people match up treating gambling as a golden goose with calls for new restrictions designed to reduce gambling revenue in Great Britain? With Bruford, co-host of The Gambling Files podcast, joining to pick apart Gordon Brown’s claims, it gets interesting. And where else will you hear about launching a competing magazine to Runner’s World as part of the conversation? As promised in our last episode, Robin and Ed also talk about gambling in South Korea, and scope for Canadian provinces joining Alberta and Ontario in liberalising their lottery monopolies.  We’ll be taking a break in the coming week, but that leaves you lots of time to listen to this week’s!