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Threats Management

Feb 19, 2026

🔎 The Hidden Cost of Visibility in Women’s Football ⚽ Women’s football in England has never been more visible. That visibility is deserved. It reflects the quality of the players and the game’s progress. But visibility changes the risk ... 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

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

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

Book

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

Celebrity

Oct 31, 2025

🏠 They’re coming for your home, your family and your reputation! You’re sitting in your kitchen on a Saturday morning when the security system goes off. Four people with cameras and banners are setting up outside your gate. Your children are ... 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

Grievance

Prime Minster Keir Starmer and Chancellor Rachel Reeves defuse Global article

Nov 25, 2024

Philip Grindell featured in the media Now Labour’s Budget sparks security alert for MPs. Expert warns huge tax raid and winter fuel allowance axe have raised risk of deadly attack with ‘grievances’ stoked by the government ... Continue reading

Celebrity

Oct 1, 2024

The Inside Threat – Sexual, Financial and Moral Harm Making the Workplace a Safer Place. Over the past week, the media have reported on several cases that have gained significant coverage. With headlines such as “Monster enabled by the ... Continue reading

Threats Management

The Defuse Podcast with Mark Follman - The Trigger Points - Inside the mission to stop mass shootings in America

Sep 5, 2024

How do we stop any further mass shootings in American schools? Journalist Mark Follman asked this very question when researching his brilliant book, “The Trigger Points – Inside the mission to stop mass shootings in America” after asking the same question. ... Continue reading

Politics

UK Prime Minister Spencer Percival being assassinated by John Bellingham

Jul 22, 2024

Can a 19th Century assassination of a UK Prime Minister help stop the next attack? The recent attack on former President Trump is the latest in the line of violent political attacks. Political attacks are not a new phenomenon, and they are not unique to ... Continue reading

Politics

tribute on grave to Jo Cox - murdered MP

Jul 3, 2024

“The reason I am in politics is because my sister was murdered” Jo Cox’s sister Kim Leadbeater shares her emotional story in poignant new interview with the Defuse Global podcast. The sister of murdered MP Jo Cox has discussed the psychological impact ... Continue reading

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