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Our man on the ground maps out this week's industry winners and losers
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Backchat: spot the spy in your local
Insider considers the downside of a lottery win, prepares to play footsie at Biba and ponders a story you couldn’t make up
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Backchat: unconditional love
Those daredevil insurance types have been excelling themselves this week – just as well the Insider’s got his feet firmly on the ground
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Backchat: Incentives you can bet on
As Peter Cullum prepares to holiday in Portugal and Adrian Colosso sets sail, the Insider stays put to pass on the latest gossip
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Backchat: Cleaning up the streets
The Insider is full of admiration as the industry enters a heroic age of crime-busting vigilantes and continent-crossing cyclists
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Backchat: One angry man
It’s not every week the Insider catches Michael Warren in green leggings and the Lloyd’s building in multicoloured lights …
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Backchat: Johnny ‘Rotten’ O’Roarke
From ill-advised quad-biking exploits to punk-rocking pasts, the Insider admires the industry’s lust for life
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Backchat: Group discussions
QBE’s former property boss heads off to the sun while Lloyd’s staff come clean about their iPad habits
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Backchat: The king's head
The Insider can barely hide his envy of both Andrew Torrance’s brand new big screen and Martin South’s regal good looks
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Backchat: Out of touch?
The Insider charts the progress of Tom Bolt, pops over to Davos, and hears the ARP being given the last rites
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Backchat: Sprinkle, sprinkle little stars
Scrumdowns and sprinkler dancing at insurance offices? Now that’s something to tweet about …
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Backchat: Nice little urner
The Insider puts his ear to the door of ABI Towers, hears of some high-speed spinning, and senses love in the air at AXA …
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Backchat: Digital attraction
There’s hardly been time to digest the turkey and mince pies before The Insider gets stuck into the latest industry gossip
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Backchat: Now with all the trimmings
Endless bubbly, roast turkey, gaudy decorations, industry gossip … The Insider will be reaching for the indigestion pills this season
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Backchat: Our drinkers in the north
The icy conditions held some people back this week, but it hasn’t stopped the Insider from warming to news from industry pals
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Backchat: LV= Broker’s pheasant plucker
When we have too much time on our hands we take up shooting … or inventing, muses the Insider. Or there’s always the rugby
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Backchat: By royal appointment
Who’s signing deals with whom, who’s sitting next to whom… As ever, the Insider ensures you heard it here first
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Backchat: Blame it on Rio
Celebrity weddings, footballers’ wives, fantasy rugby, industry gossip … Is the Insider reading too much News of the World?
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Backchat: Legally bound
The Insider wonders which team Philippe Maso was supporting at Twickenham, and discovers who’s supporting Mrs Rooney in Dubai
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Backchat: RSA chief shows off a grim souvenir
The Insider listens to Wall Street rumours about Joe Plumeri, and finds that Titanic memorabilia is kept in a ‘bag for life’
