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.