The Target May Not Be Who You Think It Is
Why the person who attracts attention is rarely the only one at risk ⚠️ Most threat assessments focus on the person receiving the attention. That may be exactly where the ...
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Britain’s Worst Stalker, and the Lesson We Keep Having to Relearn
Right now, in a British high-security prison, sits a man whose name has become an unlikely factor in a diplomatic dispute between Britain and Iran. Richard Jan means nothing to ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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⚠️ 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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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🚨 **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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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