On 5 December our office Christmas tree arrived: green and healthy with an infectious lease of festive life. Our tree’s entrance brought excitement that Christmas was just around the corner. Albeit a little compact and…

The only guidance I ever received on affairs of sex, was a copy of Manwatching by Desmond Morris left on my bedside table, and the insistence from my three elder brothers that I should ask…

The World Health Organisation has set the theme this year as ‘Mental health is a universal human right‘. What does this mean to you? As we reflect on our lifetime if we are honest there…

My go-to literature for the aeroplane and sun-lounger tends to be true crime and thrillers.  In the evenings and when commuting I lean towards anything from the Victorian era or self-development.  I have a keen…

It was the question I was dreading. I was halfway through a video call with the wonderful Emma Brian, the Haggie Partners HR manager, and somehow I thought I had managed to avoid making a…

Nestled on a leafy green in an area that is constantly struggling to decide if it is Hackney or Islington is the UK’s oldest terraced house. A nice if inconsequential fact. The kind you’re not…

For many years, my dad has had the pleasure of working at Haggie Partners and I always knew he really enjoyed it, but I have never fully understood what he actually does for five days…

It’s 37 years since I turned up in EC3 for my first day as a fresh-faced insurance broker. Barring short working stints broking in New York and Singapore in the 90s, I’ve been here ever…

By Ellie Davy On the 20th of June Haggie Partners hosted a group of communications and insurance professionals for lunch to discuss the future of the UK economy and its impact on the insurance and…

Just before Christmas last year, I had the amazing opportunity to visit New York with my family. It was a whirlwind tour. We were there for just three days so we tried to get everything…

On the 13th of July 1907, Leo Baekeland filed a patent application for Bakelite, the first wholly synthetic plastic. The invention of Bakelite is widely considered the birth of modern-day plastic. Baekland’s success enabled the…

Following the publication of Spare, a book about an ex-royal’s self-professed irrelevance, JR Moehringer is, for now at least, probably the most well-known and talked-about ghostwriter on the planet. Only this month he’s in the…