All posts

I buy some drinks at the pub (Lloyd’s Open Form, how brilliant it is, and marine salvage)

I own a pencil too (The 1914 great Exhibition of Lyon, that went wrong)

I am allergic to beans (The oil explosion at Buncefield – huge loss, but the market helps people carry on)

The Ground Remembers (The 1976 drought and how it gave way to geospatial soil mapping)

I’m a low budget Richard Branson (January 1953 North Sea flood across the UK, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and France)

Expensive words (A story about the Hatton Garden jewllery heist)

Politicians have always been useless (Tribute to Nicholas Barbon, and how the Great Fire of London gave way to our market)

I used to like Kevin McCloud (Lloyd’s market and the great explorer Ernest Shackleton)

We should probably go and get them (Early space risk goes very wrong)

There isn’t one (The night of the 1987 hurricane in South East England)

The wind said so (Parametric insurance)

Penguins and policies (Hantavirus outbreak)

Read your emails (PYMNTS study says that underwriters only attend to 40% of their emails)

We are all Cuthbert Heath (A love letter to one of the founders of our market)

The planes that don’t exist (Russian confiscation of aircraft)

The insurance problem only insurance can solve (My view on the US Gov trying to insure vessels going through Hormuz)

Automated Eyebrows (How our market words, and a tribute to my friend Geoff)

A world without our market (Massively self-indulgent piece about the importance of Lloyd’s)

Nearly doesn’t write the slip (Very early Sunday nonsense. Still finding its feet)