Cartoon #5 in the series. When an eleven-year-old deploys the "everyone has one" argument at the dinner table, most parents cave. An actuarial parent reaches for the notepad.

The Politics Actuary is a weekly cartoon about what happens when an actuary watches the news, reads the small print, and can't keep quiet about it. Set in a fictional household — a dad who can't switch off his professional brain, a family who've learned to live with it, and ...

The Politics Actuary is a weekly single-panel cartoon about actuaries, politics, the profession, everyday life, and the absurdities of overregulation. It follows a fictional household: a dad who can't switch off his professional brain, a family who've learned to live with it, and an inexplicable pet crocodile. Any resemblance to ...

The Politics Actuary is a weekly cartoon about what happens when an actuary watches the news, reads the small print, and can't keep quiet about it. Set in a fictional household — a dad who can't switch off his professional brain, a family who've learned to live with it, and ...

This is the first in a new weekly series: The Politics Actuary. The idea: an actuary's eye applied to politics, the profession, everyday life, and the absurdities of overregulation — through the medium of single-panel cartoons. Most practising actuaries self-censor on anything beyond the anodyne, because legacy professional bodies tend to discourage public commentary with any edge to it. I no longer have that constraint. The cartoons follow a fictional actuarial household — a dad who can't switch off his professional brain, a family who've learned to live with it, and an inexplicable pet crocodile. Any resemblance to real actuaries is entirely intentional.

A curated reference of over 107 freely accessible datasets relevant to actuarial work — covering UK sources from the ONS, Bank of England, and Environment Agency, plus international data from the US, Canada, Australia, the EU, and global bodies like the WHO, World Bank, and UN. Organised by practice area with a quick-reference table by actuarial specialty

AI is coming for most white-collar jobs. Blue-collar too, but it will take longer because of the delay before hundreds of millions of robots can be manufactured. So it is now vital for you to use AI to increase your productivity by a multiple.

I have upgraded the site from .NET 9 and the associated function from .NET 8 to .NET 10.

I've been exploring AI Agents recently and they look extremely promising.  More on this in due course.

I've been experimenting a lot using Oqtane over the last 2 months and like it quite a lot.