All Backchat articles – Page 3
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BackchatBackchat: 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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BackchatBackchat: 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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BackchatBackchat: 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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BackchatBackchat: 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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BackchatBackchat: 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’
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BackchatBackchat: Bonzer Sheilas to hustle in Brussels
The insider probes the Aspen ‘romance’, hears that underwriters don’t need publicity and gets excited over network rumours
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BackchatBackchat: lost in translation
Thanks to the talents of Reg Brown, Lord Hiscox and Robbie Williams, it’s been a huntin’, shootin’ and singin’ week for the Insider
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BackchatBackchat: Pole position for grovelling
The Insider listens to gossip about Aviva, hears that NIG is still not popular and finds why Mike Smith’s challenge is one to avoid
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BackchatBackchat: Aviva searches for heroes outside itself
The Insider finds out who looks like a ghillie, follows Andy Homer’s training fun and – shock, horror – learns of fisticuffs at Lloyd’s
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BackchatBackchat: Have you got a Canopius swopsy?
The Insider keeps a close eye on Neil Utley’s wheeling and dealing, while raising yet another glass with Peter Cullum
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BackchatBackchat: Revenge of the cookie monster
Bake-offs, head-banging, Harvard, Esther Rantzen … it’s just been another average week for the Insider
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BackchatBackchat: Blade runner
It’s been a cut and thrust week for The Insider, complete with war cries, fighting talk and high-flying antics
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BackchatBackchat: Let's get digital
The Insider has an anatomy lesson and wonders how long it will be before iPads are essential pub kit
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BackchatBackchat: People in glass offices ...
The Insider gets out of his comfy office but feels the chill at Lord’s, hears a doggy drama and vows to refine his lift technique
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BackchatBackchat: You can fleece some of the people …
The Insider looks at what Andy Haste can do if things go sour, gives three cheers to Bertie Hiscox and looks forward to a brandy
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BackchatBackchat: Playing to win
Never one to fall behind the times, the Insider’s been eyeing up the latest gadgets. Oh, and cricket and vintage cars ...
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BackchatBackchat: It’s a vicious circle
The Insider pulls out his crystal ball for a couple of potential sales, and gets ready for one hell of a Tube journey
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BackchatBackchat: This is no one-trick pony
The Insider is match-making – putting Utley behind the wheel at Provident and looking outside the box to find the next ABI boss
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BackchatBackchat: Paps are out, but not for Andy
The Insider taps his foot to Thin Lizzy at the O2, joins the chat at Westminster, and wonders about gifts from would-be apiarists
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BackchatBackchat: A shirty reaction from the Aon team
The Insider searches for his earplugs – or the remote control – and looks at loss adjusters in a new light
