James Downes
James Downes
@james-downes.bsky.social
Founder at House of Insurtech
All views plagiarised from people smarter than me #ActuallyAutistic #pragmatist #sceptic #tech #innovation #insurtech
And again...
December 5, 2025 at 8:58 AM
How on earth have we got to the situation where the story I'm trying to read occupies so little of the screen. Enshittification at its worst
December 4, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Not 100% a fan of his, this really resonates with me
November 22, 2025 at 8:14 AM
This is really not fair but...
November 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Expect lots of these
October 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Absolutely beautiful day for walking in the countryside
October 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Aha!
October 7, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Seriously B&Q?
October 7, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Full Moon over Orpington
October 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
September 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
No #BBC experts disagree, some non-experts are sceptical
September 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Winter is coming, apparently the temperature in Orpington has hit Absolute 0
September 8, 2025 at 7:04 AM
That's nothing, I was so shocked by this I had to take a picture, Voltarol is apparently £300 a kilo!
September 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Whenever the idea that privatising the Health Service, or funding it with Insurance comes up.

I reach for may comparative life expectancy chart
August 14, 2025 at 12:26 PM
August 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
You missed yesterday, when thanks to 1 kg of live mussels for £3 courtesy of Tesco, I made moules mariniere.

Simple pleasures.
August 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
What's up #amazon
August 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I'm old enough to remember when it was called "bubonic plague"

Come on #bbc you can do better than this.
July 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
The new reality, "generated by AI, so can't be trusted", smallprint at ai service epicure
July 2, 2025 at 6:53 AM
they really should provide an open-source alternative
June 26, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Seriously? Le Shuttle pet list is Dogs, Cats and Ferrets?
June 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Stopping for a glass of wine
May 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
May 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
You have to love any book that starts its preface with a Bronowski quote (the book is A Universe from Nothing by Lawrence M Krauss)
May 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I'm not saying that Sam and Jonny used AI to do their photo, but I will just present an early press shot of me and my business partner (by the great Eamonn J McCabe) and...
May 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM