No one is sure, but the nineteenth-century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli is said by some to have been first to declare that the three types of falsehood are lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Little in France was ever more controversial than Superphénix. My dad couldn’t stop talking about it, because it was supposed to make its own fuel.

About halfway through the storm-induced, two-hour interruption of the France-Iraq match, I began to think about an Insurance Technology Diary entry.

Claude was down for about an hour yesterday. I don’t mean my great aunt’s fiancé (although Uncle Claude did occasionally pop in for a natter).

People of a certain age remember word processers. These computing devices were not computers per se. Unlike the modern desktop…

I flew around Europe quite a lot during my years as an underwriter. As every business traveller knows, being among the workplace jet-set adds up…

A lot of people, even a lot of French people, have forgotten Minitel. In the early 1980s, before anyone elsewhere had even heard of the word ‘internet’…

The question Who will win the fight to control smart-follow capacity? was posed this week in another insurance publication.

A long time ago, when they didn’t need to have numbers and special characters, one of my favourite passwords was GRIBNITZ.