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Fixated persons

Feb 14, 2026

🔎 Fixation — When Attention Turns Dangerous The difference between someone who’s persistent and someone who’s dangerous The letters arrived at the family home. Handwritten. Addressed to the children. The client, a prominent US businesswoman, had previously ... Continue reading

General

Feb 9, 2026

🧭🧠🛡️ Situational Awareness, Intuition and Everyday Risk 🎯 Reducing risk through calm attention and early choice Situational awareness is often spoken about as if it’s instinctive — something you either have or you don’t. That’s a comforting ... Continue reading

Risk assessment

Feb 6, 2026

🔍 You Already Trust Someone You Shouldn’t. The Question Is — Who? 🧠 What the Mandelson-Epstein scandal reveals about the fatal flaw in how we vet the people closest to us ⚠️ There is a moment in every high-stakes decision when the ... Continue reading

Executive Protection

Feb 4, 2026

🎯 Executive Targeting: What Advisors Need to Notice Early ⚠️ Why this matters Most serious harm to senior individuals does not begin with an attack. It begins with small, observable changes that are easy to dismiss until it is ... Continue reading

wealth

Jan 23, 2026

🎯 When Attention Becomes a Liability: A Three-Part Guide for Prominent Individuals In my experience, there’s a pattern. Someone builds wealth, influence, or public standing. Life gets busier, more visible, more connected. And then, often without warning, that visibility turns into vulnerability. ... Continue reading

Privacy

Jan 19, 2026

🛡️ Why Exposure Changes Risk (And Why Advisers Feel It First) 📌 A story you’ll recognise… A few years ago, I took a call from a family office director who’d worked with the same client for over a decade. Sharp operator ... Continue reading

Digital Exposure Assessment

Jan 11, 2026

🔒 Privacy Isn’t About Discretion. It’s About Safety. Within family offices and advisory teams, privacy is often treated as a personal matter. Something the principal feels strongly about. Something to respect, but not actively manage. From a security ... Continue reading

Celebrity

Jan 4, 2026

🚨 When “Call the Police” Becomes the Security Plan 📰 Last week, actor Colin Salmon stood in a London magistrates’ court and made a simple request. He asked that his home address not be read aloud. His lawyer explained ... Continue reading

Psychology

Dec 21, 2025

⚠️ Why Feeling Unsafe Persists – Even When the Threat Is “Under Control” I was reminded of The Chimp Paradox recently after watching the documentary about Sir Chris Hoy and his terminal prostate cancer diagnosis. At the height of his cycling career, Hoy ... Continue reading

Insider Threat

Dec 13, 2025

🔐 The Insider Threat: When the Risk Is Already Inside the Family Office Family offices run on trust. Small teams. Long service. Close proximity to wealth and private lives. That trust is essential — but when it isn’t supported by structure, it becomes ... Continue reading

Celebrity

Dec 8, 2025

🔎 The Gaps Between Your Defences: Where Threats Actually Strike The attack that concerns me most isn’t the one that breaches your strongest defences. It’s the one that slips through the space between them. ⚠️ A family I worked with ... Continue reading

Fixated persons

Nov 30, 2025

🛡️ The Protection Gap: Why Some Public Figures Are Left Exposed 🔐 A Hard Truth We Keep Seeing 🔴 SECURITY ANALYSIS While MPs now have structured protection, thousands of other public figures face the same hostility with far less support. Councillors, ... Continue reading

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