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BackchatBackchat: Mistaken identity case file 1
Does Barry Smith have a secret life? Is Richard Ward an international man of mystery? The Insider investigates ...
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Backchat: Never mind, boys. What’s a billion or two among friends?
Fortunes lost, friends gained and eyebrows shaved. It’s all drama with the Insider this week
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Backchat: Vicky Cristina Barcelona? How about Paul Donaldson Madrid
The Insider hears all about Paul Donaldson, a chav claim and he enters the world of social networking
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Backchat: What becomes of the broken-hearted?
The Insider hears all about Patrick Snowball, snow fever and revolutionary fervour
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Backchat: I bet it seemed a good idea at the time
What’s Mark Cliff doing with his evenings? Who’s the weirdest collector in Britain? The Insider is searching for answers ...
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Backchat: How about a nice picture of kittens?
Kieran Rigby tells the Insider his secrets, Alex Alway keeps on smiling and disaster strikes (the walls) at Amlin
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Backchat: Horses for three courses, plus drinks
The Insider heckles the FSA, envies Lord Levene and wonders what went wrong at the CII
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Backchat: Chinese whispers and other party games
The Insider tracks the life and death of a rumour, and hears about dry martinis, wet weather and dancing girls
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Backchat: Oh, what a night
There was a bit of a do at the Birmingham Hilton Metropole last Friday night. I stuck my head round the door and found the Insurance Times Awards in full swing. The great and the good were out in force (especially once I’d arrived), although Willis boss Joe Plumeri, one ...
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Ho, ho, no
Stuck up here at Insurance Times Towers, Backchat is getting a little depressed by all the doom and gloom around us. The bars of Leadenhall market are more subdued than usual, their empty tables crying out for Jeroboam-swigging, bonus-wielding City boys. But with many firms expected to follow AIG’s example ...
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Creme de la crime Despite the best efforts of Groupama big cheeses Francois-Xavier Boisseau and Laurent Matras – who could build quite a career in comedy if insurance doesn’t work out for them, what with their “Ooh, aah Groupama” routine – the entertainer “Keith the thief” stole the show at ...
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It’s a dog’s life
A big well done to SME Insurance Services, which even in these austere times is finding a few pennies for charity. The company decided to support Guide Dogs for the Blind and hopes to raise £5,000 over the coming year to sponsor a guide-dog puppy through its first year of ...
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Riches, tea and biscuits
To Spencer House (above), the 18th-century London mansion that was built for an ancestor of Diana, Princess of Wales. With all that history and wealth sloshing around, it was an appropriate setting for the launch of Chubb’ s ultra high net worth policy. After a whistle-stop tour of the house ...
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Barry the what?
ITV news presenter Alastair Stewart (above) got caught out by industry terminology when he hosted the recent ABI motor conference. The poor chap looked puzzled when the audience tittered each time he referred to Fortis’ Barry Smith as “Barry the broker”. Perhaps someone should have told him Smith is an ...
