An objective eye?

Niall O'Connor writes a mean column and his latest contribution to the cause of lottery knowledge is a 5,700 word opus entitled From Schindler to Placanica and beyond. Very comprehensive, but is it authoritative? For example, we don't agree (after an email exchange) about whether the European Parliament stripped out the hotly disputed country-of-origin principle before it passed the Services Directive - and that sort of stuff is quite easy to verify. Unfortunately for Niall's objective eye on the betting industry, various bookmakers are in his "affiliate programme", as are the industry-financed Centre for the Study of Gambling and the privately-funded Betting Research Unit at Nottingham Trent University. Having said which, bettingmarket.com a goldmine of info and shouldn't be dissed just because his objectivity is tainted by bookmaker money. Hell, even advertising free bets on Totesport isn't a crime (is it?) but I'd love to know why he does it in Russian!