The liquidators of Independent Insurance, PricewaterhouseCoopers, handed out a letter to brokers last Thursday at the briefing meeting hosted by Insurance Times and attended by more than 200 people. Our journalists made a computer scan of the letter at our offices and posted it on to the Insurance Times website (insurancetimes.co.uk) straight after the meeting.

Some time later, the same scan of the letter appeared on the Post Magazine website. As the magazine now admits, its eager newshounds logged on to the Insurance Times website, cut out the letter and pasted it on to Post's own website, without permission and without acknowledgment.

Leaving aside any question of ethics, it's now clear how journalists from Post Magazine (soon to be re-named Paste Magazine) spend their time – namely glued to the Insurance Times website. Backchat is buying the domain name pastemagazine.co.uk to hand over to Paste Magazine next time its journalism comes unstuck.

  • The name of Paste Magazine's owner – Incisive Media – accurately describes its fondness for the cutting part of cut-and-pasting. Backchat now expects it to set up a sister company – Adhesive Media – to manage the other half.

    • The 2025 Insurance Times Awards took place on the evening of Wednesday 3rd December in the iconic Great Room of London’s Grosvenor House.

    Hosted by comedian and actor Tom Allen, 34 Gold, 23 Silver and 22 Bronze awards were handed out across an amazing 34 categories recognising brilliance and innovation right across the breadth of UK general insurance.
    Many congratulations to all the worthy winners and as always, huge thanks to our sponsors for their support and our judges for their expertise.

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