Insurance Post’s star-studded Christmas Special for 2025

Editor Emma Ann Hughes takes the role of quiz master, challenging the news knowledge of Jonathan Swift, content director; Hugh Kennaway, president of the Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters; deputy editor Scott McGee; and Scott Clayton, head of fraud at Zurich.

Viewers are tested on some of the more colourful moments of the last 12 months, including:

• Which industry leader was mistaken for a Marvel superhero?
• What climate activists from Insure Our Survival dubbed their rival ceremony to the British Insurance Awards?
• Where the economics graduate who spent 10 hours outside Lloyd’s with a sign advertising himself for hire eventually landed a job?

The Christmas Special also counts down Post’s Top 10 most-read news stories of 2025, reflecting another year dominated by consolidation, leadership shake-ups and market-shaping misconduct.

Closing out the episode is a festive treat: a bedtime story for Christmas titled How the Grinch Stole Coverage, read in true CBeebies fashion by a fabulous line-up of prominent industry figures:

• Ajay Mistry, co-founder of iCan.
• Julie Comer, head of compliance of the British Insurance Brokers’ Association.
• Mike Crane, SME and specialty director of Axa.
• Jonathan Clark, past Chartered Insurance Institute president and trustee of the National Emergencies Trust.
• Kishan Mangat, co-chair of iCan.
• Hugh Savill, senior adviser at Sicsic Advisory.
• Chris Finnegan, brand director of Insurance Post.
• Huw Evans, head of insurance at KPMG.
• Carmen Powell, CEO of ISC Group.
• Melissa Collett, CEO of Insurtech UK.
• Malcolm Tarling, former chief media relations officer of the Association of British Insurers.
• Matthew Connell, director of policy and public affairs at the CII.
• James Daley, managing director of Fairer Finance.

The Christmas Special caps off an eventful year for the sector and for Post’s award-winning newsroom.

With a mix of humour, insight and end-of-year reflection as the industry heads into 2026, this is one Christmas Special not to be missed.