The London insurance market represents what’s best about our city – its talented workforce, its global outlook and its creativity, writes Susan Langley

Mark Twain said that “a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes”. Perception is reality, and at a time in which disinformation is rife, fiction is readily accepted over fact and some seek to undermine the work we do here in the City through cynical falsehoods, it’s absolutely vital that we take control of our own narrative.

I’ve often said that we need to be more Tigger than Eeyore, but the importance of putting forward a positive, fact-based case for the City has become all the more urgent given the increasingly widespread assault on truth. In trying to counter it, we face two sides of the same coin.

On the one hand, we need to combat the naysayers who talk the City down on issues such as crime, when in reality the Square Mile is one of the safest places in the country – and much safer than many of our competitor cities like New York – with an effective crime rate of just 0.01 per capita per........

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