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Data

Jun 3, 2026

Someone could build a detailed picture of your family this afternoon. Not a hacker. Anyone with a laptop and an hour to spare. And here’s the part that catches people out: you can spend a fortune on cybersecurity and still be ... Continue reading

Trust

May 17, 2026

What Clients Are Really Paying For Trust in professional advice has always been built on the same few principles, and those principles are quietly under pressure. As advisory firms have grown and expanded into new service ... Continue reading

Psychology

May 8, 2026

⚠️ The Emotional Cost of Modern Threats Why feeling unsafe can be as damaging as being unsafe Most people assume a threat begins with violence. It usually starts much earlier. 📍 A cancelled appearance. 📍 A different ... Continue reading

Behavioural Threat Assessment

May 4, 2026

Why Coleman Was Stopped and Rudakubana Wasn’t: Pre-Attack Behaviour and the Gap in UK Threat Assessment Two Dangerous Young Men in the UK — Why One Was Stopped, and the Other Was Missed What pre-attack behaviour reveals about the Southport and Coleman cases — and the ... Continue reading

Data

Apr 25, 2026

The Privacy Myth Why most wealthy families are far more visible than they think — and what to do about it A family office principal told me last year that he was completely ... Continue reading

Threats Management

Apr 20, 2026

Early Signs Advisers Miss How to spot when something that looks like a nuisance is becoming something more 📞 An adviser rang me recently about a man who had been writing to her client ... Continue reading

Behavioural Threat Assessment

Apr 14, 2026

🚨 **The warning signs were not absent. They were missed, minimised, or not acted on.* The Southport Inquiry Report was published yesterday. I’ve read it. What it describes is not primarily a failure of intelligence gathering. It is a failure of ownership, process, and information ... Continue reading

Fixated persons

Apr 12, 2026

When Something Doesn’t Feel Right Most situations begin subtly. Why is hesitation dangerous? The people I work with don’t ignore risk because they’re careless. They ignore it because the moment it appears, it doesn’t look ... Continue reading

Data

Mar 27, 2026

If the FBI Director’s Personal Email Can Be Hacked, Nobody Is Untouchable This morning, it emerged that Kash Patel — Director of the FBI — had his personal Gmail account breached by an Iranian-linked hacking group called Handala. Private photos, personal emails ... Continue reading

Book

Mar 27, 2026

Why Most People Misunderstand Threat & Risk — and Pay for It Later Before you can reduce a threat, you need to understand what it’s actually made of. In the mid-1980s, during recruit training at the Guards Depot, I wasn’t allowed anywhere near ... Continue reading

Behavioural Threat Assessment

Mar 20, 2026

He shot a President. The warning signs were there for months. What a Threat Assessment Actually Is: A Guide for Family Office Advisers 📍 On the 30th of March 1981, John Hinckley Jr. shot President Ronald Reagan outside the Washington Hilton ... Continue reading

Data

Mar 20, 2026

Company directors details exposed Most people think risk comes from hackers breaking in. It doesn’t. It comes from your data already being out there — in systems you don’t control. This week, Companies House ... Continue reading

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