Archbishop Speaks Out on Supercasinos

The Archbishop of Canterbury has voiced concern over problem gambling after yesterday’s announcement from the Casino Advisory Panel that the lone supercasino licence had gone to Manchester.

Dr Rowan Williams said that research figures made it quite clear that gambling was becoming a “more and more popular form of addiction in this country”, and that “we must not underrate the seriousness of that”.

“All addictions are imprisonments for the soul and therefore any form of addiction is something that ought to be of concern to the population at large and to the religious population in particular.” Read more