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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

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

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

Celebrity

Mar 15, 2026

⚠️ Your Client Isn’t the Target. Their Family Is 🕗 It was twenty past eight on a Tuesday morning in Paris. Pierre Noizat, CEO of French cryptocurrency platform Paymium, was going about his day. Elsewhere in the city, his ... Continue reading

Digital Security

Mar 6, 2026

📡 If Mossad Could Map a Supreme Leader’s Movements Through Hacked Traffic Cameras, What Could Someone Do With Access to You? A precision strike killed Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at his compound in Tehran. It was one of the most significant targeted killings in modern history — and it ... Continue reading

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

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

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

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