Publications

The following is a selection from more than 200 articles, papers and the like, written over a number of years, on a number of topics and for a variety of media.

Books

• I Learned to Write, available from Amazon Books (where it was a post-publication bestseller)
• On the Way Up (out of print)
• The Work of a Pension Scheme Actuary, co-written with Graham Ward

“Irregular Thoughts” – published on Substack

I write a series of comment and analysis pieces under the title Irregular Thoughts (subtitle: “where regular thoughts are tried and found wanting”). You can find the articles on my Substack page. The most recent articles and some highlights from the archives are listed in the right-hand sidebar of this webpage.

From the Financial Times

These are three of my favourite FT articles from around twenty written in the 1990s and early 2000s.

• With This Loan, I Thee Wed, Financial Times
• Is it Time to Break Windows?, Financial Times
• Why the Regulators Must Stay, Financial Times

Press freedom (with responsibility)

Like many people, I was shocked when it started to become clear in the 2010s just how far the press were prepared to go to get a story – or to manufacture one! I became engrossed in the subject for several years, contributing to the debate, including the following pieces:

• The Section 40 Debate Shows Just How Much Our Press Needs a Proper Regulator, Inforrm
• Reporters San Frontiers: not my idea of a knock-out, Inforrm
• Sir Alan Moses and the Culture Secretary, Inforrm

Magazines and journals

The list of magazines and journals I have written for since the 1970s includes: Accountancy, The Accountant, The Actuary, The Agenda, The Expert, Financial News, FourFourTwo, Journal of the Institute of Actuaries, Law Society Gazette, The Lawyer, Leasing Digest, Managing Intellectual Property, New Law Journal, Pensions Management, Solicitors Journal, The Times and TOP Graduate Career Guide.

Papers/dissertations

When a simple article just isn’t enough (but a book would be too much):

• Being Actuarial with the Truth, a paper presented to the Staple Inn Actuarial Society
• Patent Infringement Disputes, with William Letwin, Managing Intellectual Property
• The Competition and Policy Implications of Regulatory Depreciation and the Asset Base,
  with David Currie and Martin Siner, London Business School Regulation Initiative Discussion Paper 25