With the political arena showing no signs of stabilising as Theresa May resigns as Prime Minister, Boris Johnson faces trial for ‘lying and misleading the British public’ over Brexit and we have the prospect of a second referendum. They do say a week is a long time in politics. As the rows rumble on in other news we also learn this month that over twenty seven million people are preparing to work past 65 and that Grandparents can top up their state pension if they look after their own grandchildren. This issue Willis Re examines Silent Cyber Risk and how it is putting insurers on their guard. Spitch follows this by asking can AI-led ‘conversational’ commerce change insurance forever. Continuing on the AI theme LexixNexis provide us with an article on Data Scientists: taming artificial intelligence. Our regular columnists have also been busy including insights into the insurance regulatory priorities for the year ahead from PwC with Intelligent Pensions looks into the Pension Transfer Gold Standard.