Back in 2107, Lloyd’s banned alcohol between 9:00 and 5:00. But the gnomes of Lime Street were only following a precedent set by…

I dipped in and out of an old Encyclopaedia Britannica to learn English when I was young. To my mind those oversized, mould-smelling books…

“That’s sick, papa,” my son said to me the other day. I thought I’d been reprimanded. When I asked what was nauseating about…

I imagine the whale had a happy but loud and scary kind of voice: “Come right, here little fish.I’m peckish. You’re small, but you’ll do…

Imagine arriving in 2025 from 1825, and encountering a golf cart. You would no doubt consider this four-wheeled marvel the most incredible…

When I was little, every year I told Père Noël what I wanted for Christmas. I made list, attested vehemently to my goodness over the year…

I downloaded a truly useful app the other day, one of the few that actually makes my life easier. I was about halfway through the weekly …

Back in 2018, all Lloyd’s Managing Agents bought into the market’s new reporting system, DA-SATS. Clearly named with its acronym in mind…

I was strolling along Bishopsgate with a colleague on a sunny April day quite a few years back. We stopped at a bench because his feet hurt.