I was lucky as a child to have a big enough back garden to practise le foot. Attentive maintenance of the grass and the earth below it was…

Last weekend my niece showed me a small carton with crazed character on the front. She was so excited. It was a blind-box Labubu…

When I was a kid, I loved the local garage. The smell of oil, the clank of heavy metal, and the naughty Pirelli calendar were thrilling to me.

Whilst on a train, I flipped open my laptop and launched a new Word document to write this edition of Insurance Technology Diary.

I began my career in underwriting the way most people do: by shadowing senior people who knew what they were doing.

I hear it all the time: “Brokers are lazy.” It’s almost always said by an underwriter who’s disappointed that a specific broker hasn’t…

Everyone in my house loves to cook, but we have very different tastes. In case you haven’t noticed, I am French. I like French cooking…

My first job in insurance was as a junior trade-credit underwriter. I worked in the London office of a large European firm.

I have a very old friend who’s a journalist. He’s actually a really nice chap, and he’s full of fascinating stories. A while back we were…