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 an inexplicable pet crocodile — the series takes on politics, the profession, everyday life, and the absurdities of overregulation.

"She'd spent her whole career promoting transparent financial disclosure from pension funds. Her own professional body seemed to regard similar transparency as unnecessary despite having highly numerate members."

The profession that built its reputation on transparent financial analysis apparently regards similar transparency about its own finances as unnecessary.

Any resemblance to real actuaries is entirely intentional.

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