Protection Review

Peter Le Beau wonders what the election was all about…

by Peter Le Beau 07/05/10 Category: Comment

I don’t know about you but I felt a bit irrelevant during the election campaign. It wasn’t that I expected Gordon Brown to summon me to Downing Street or David Cameron to ask me to compose a blueprint for the insurance industry but somewhere, just somewhere, I would like to feel that someone was concerned with the fact that vast numbers of people are grossly under-insured. Why didn’t we? Well of course pressing the cause of the insurance industry is hardly a vote winner is it and we all know that politicians take most care in presenting the issues that…
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Peter Le Beau considers life in the wireless world…

by Peter Le Beau 01/03/10 Comment

A new way of doing business Weeding out some old seminar notes a few weeks ago I was intrigued to see that around the turn of the century (doesn’t that sound grand?!)we were still wondering if this thing called e-commerce was going to affect the way we did business! It seems so ridiculous to think that lots of sages were suggesting that this might be just another passing fad although perhaps the experience of e-commerce was a slow dial-up and a very limited range of interesting web material. I can remember a well known industry figure telling me after a…
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