🧵The UK National Lottery is no longer a simple game of chance and hope. 🤑💰 (opens in new tab)

🧵The UK National Lottery is no longer a simple game of chance and hope. 🤑💰 Over the last decade, public ticket revenue has been quietly repurposed by the state and private partner foundations to fund deep structural interventions in domestic speech, internet policy, and grassroots narrative control. Every week, millions of Britons purchase lottery tickets assuming their money exclusively preserves heritage sites or constructs community sports halls. The National Lottery is a highly calculated...