David Osler

Finance editor of Lloyd's List, but all views my own

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The rain in Spain falls mainly in flash floods that wash away cars and buildings

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Hull underwriters making 'good money' but not 'too much money', argues @MillerInsure marine insurance veteran Peter Townsend | new article for @LloydsList

https://t.co/b3uQ2INBfD

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@letmeseethatkaz The Clash were a far more important rock band than Oasis ever were. Fight me.

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@britinsurance Keel Consortium has 100% war risk line on Sounion, the tanker on fire in the Red Sea, @lloydslist has learned
https://t.co/LrmlYBhftz

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Shipping lawyers/barristers ... how does Denmark's suggestion that it could ban the shadow fleet from the Denmark Strait fit with the right of innocent passage? Happy to quote reasoned opinions in LL, either by name or as 'a lawyer said'.

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Maybe I should join the Conservative Party. As a journalist who writes about marine insurance, I know a thing or two about sinking ships.

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Wearing a tie for a meeting is the same kind of insouciant devil-may-care gesture of rebellion that not wearing a tie for a meeting was circa 2005

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Oslers are replicating unstoppably

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Here's a shipping pub quiz question: which is greater, South Korea's share of the global shipbuilding market or South Korea's share of the ten best-selling pop albums of 2023?

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A Conservative Party political ad, demonstrating how Britain is 'the second most powerful country in the world'. Featuring a boxship built in Korea, flagged in Panama and owned by an Italian based in Switzerland, and a football team that hasn't won anything since 1966.

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@Conservatives political ad, contending that Britain is 'the second-greatest country in the world', featuring boxship MSC Zoe. Built in Korea, flagged in Panama and owned by an Italian based in Switzerland. And picturing a football team that hasn't won anything since 1966.

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I feel sorry for colleagues who will have to get visas and then queue for two hours at passport control the next time they do a day trip to Hamburg or Oslo. But I've now got this bad boy.

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Just back from applying for a passport at the Swiss embassy in London. Pleased to report that the ringtone on the phone at reception is The Lonely Goatherd, the 'yodelay-ee-oo' song from the Sound of Music. 'It's to make you feel at home,' the receptionist quipped.

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The Gemini Cooperation is probably Robert Ludlum's finest novel

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If the Titanic sank today

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And the winner of Christmas family Scrabble for the umpteenth year in succession is ... dad!!

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Russia knocked off International Maritime Organization council following Zelensky appeal to delegates
https://t.co/6EpbSUzZih