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.