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Guy Fawkes - a case study on behavioural threat assessment

Nov 5, 2025

💣 The Gunpowder Plot: What Four Centuries of Threat Assessment Looks Like Every November, we light bonfires 🔥 and set off fireworks 🎆 to celebrate the failure of the Gunpowder Plot…a terrorist attack! Guy Fawkes, 36 barrels of gunpowder, Parliament saved at ... Continue reading

General

Oct 10, 2025

When Words Become Warning Signs: Reading the Real Threats in Your Inbox ⚠️ The Surprising Truth About Threats Here’s something that might surprise many: when someone sends you a direct threat, they will probably not act on it. That sounds counterintuitive, especially ... Continue reading

Threats Management

Oct 5, 2025

⚠️ Why Wealthy Families Ignore the One Thing That Could Save Them When the First Lady of the United States publicly calls for behavioural threat assessment after a school shooting, you’d think family offices might pay attention. Melania Trump’s recent statement wasn’t ... Continue reading

Book

Jul 6, 2025

Underestimating Threat Levels: The Hidden Risk You Can’t Afford to Ignore When I was handed that scrap of paper in Parliament—six lines about a planned attack on an MP—the threat wasn’t just what was written. One of the biggest dangers I ... Continue reading

General

Jun 12, 2025

The Attack Cycle – A UK Perspective Your Shield Against Targeted Violence Why This Matters to You Right Now If you’re reading this, something’s made you feel exposed. Maybe you’ve received worrying messages, noticed someone taking too ... Continue reading

Reputation management

Reputation and painful human condition, pictured as a wooden human figure pushing heavy weight to show how hard it can be to deal with Reputation in human life, 3d illustration

Apr 21, 2025

From Vulnerability to Visibility: Overcoming Reputational Anxiety in the Public Eye I remember sitting across from this extremely wealthy tech CEO who’d cancelled three charity events because someone kept posting conspiracy theories about him online. “I just can’t risk it,” he ... Continue reading

Book

Feb 24, 2025

I’m now officialy a published author Here is the deal of the week! It is less than the price of an expresso coffee in London! ☕ 🥂 📚 👏 Today is the day my book is ... Continue reading

Book

Jan 29, 2025

Top Recommended adviser – Security, Intelligence & Investigations A new edition of the Spear’s 500 is out now, and I’m very pleased to say that I have been featured as a Top Recommended adviser in the Security, Intelligence ... Continue reading

Fixated persons

Jan 21, 2025

Could using behavioural threat assessment and management have prevented the Southport triple killer? The murder of 3 little girls attending a ‘Taylor Swift’ themed party rightly shocked the UK. This week, more of the facts around the case emerged as the killer pleaded ... Continue reading

Fixated persons

Dec 11, 2024

What can high profile clients and their security learn from the targeted attack in New York? A fatal targeted attack on the CEO of United Healthcare has reignited the conversation about the threat of a grievance-driven targeted attack. There are two types of violence: affective violence ... Continue reading

Book

Nov 28, 2024

My new book is now available for pre-order I am delighted to announce that my new book, “Personal Threat Management: The Practitioner’s Guide to Keeping Clients Safer,” is now available for pre-order via Amazon and distributors. Public figures ... Continue reading

Workplace

Nov 13, 2024

8 steps employers should implement to make the workplace a safer place. This month, the new Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act 2023 was enacted, which requires businesses to take ‘reasonable steps’ to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace. Under ... Continue reading

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