I was sitting in the car listening to the latest news on the radio whilst waiting for my daughter to finish hockey and started contemplating the challenges of horizon scanning in an increasingly unpredictable global environment (yes, my life really is that exciting). I came to the conclusion that horizon scanning isn’t really about predicting […]
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Is your organisation impacted by Martyn’s Law? For many organisations and event operators, the first challenge is not compliance, it’s clarity. Establishing whether you are within the scope of the Act depends on the nature of the premises or event and, critically, who has control. This includes both qualifying premises and qualifying events, and it is
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Start with a single number: 1.7 billion tonnes. That’s how much food is shipped across the world’s oceans every year, including around 400 million tonnes of wheat and grain. Add the fertilisers needed for future harvests and the handful of maritime chokepoints through which much of this trade must pass, and a troubling reality emerges:
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The world’s most predictable disruptor is coming and it’s something that should be keeping people up at night. Every few years the Pacific Ocean warms, Scientists spot it months sometimes a full year in advance. Meteorologists issue warnings, and Governments are briefed, yet reliably, organisations around the world are caught completely flat-footed when the consequences
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Fuel Disruption and the UK’s Corporate Security Blind Spot Fuel shortages don’t begin at the petrol station, but that’s where their impact becomes visible. In Part One, our previous article explored the economic and operational consequences of a prolonged energy supply shock. But beyond rising costs and supply chain pressure sits another issue that organisations
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What It Means for Businesses and Households A global oil supply disruption never stays neatly contained within energy markets and it certainly won’t this time. In our view, the pattern is well understood but often underestimated. A disruption starts with constrained supply and quickly feeds through into petrol and diesel. From there, transport costs rise,
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