It’s a royal flush at Marina Bay Sands

Six-star toilets: Pedestrians walking past an entrance to The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands. Six toilets at The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore have received the six-star rating from the Restroom Association of Singapore – the first toilets in Singapore to be awarded its top rating. — Bloomberg

FROM a purely academic standpoint, legalised gambling began in the United States out of a desire to bring a little more decorum to poker than the non-negotiable: “My Colt-45 beats your four aces.”

Very quickly, governments all over the world realised that gambling, if severely taxed and zealously regulated, could prove a boon to public balance sheets.