When the bomb threat is almost certainly fake

Three waves in just over three weeks, from Rome to Belfast: what mass threat campaigns ask of risk, crisis and emergency communicators.

One big simulation a year is not a preparedness programme

Full-scale simulations, tabletops, micro simulations and half-hour drills each build a different muscle. Readiness comes from running all of them to a rhythm.

15 skills every risk, crisis and emergency communicator needs by 2027

A practitioner's answer to Forbes Communications Council's 2027 list, written for the people who communicate when something is going wrong.

Hackers heated French fridges. Who spoke first?

Three days, one campaign and no single voice. What the communication looked like, and the wording you can adapt.

The Global Outlook has its first numbers, and there is still time to take part

Irkutsk, a pending lab result and six rumours in a week.

Government communicators fight for precision, corporate communicators for restraint, and Irkutsk tests both.

Your next crisis focus group might not contain any humans.

Synthetic audiences can test messages in days, in private, at scale. What they can safely do for risk, crisis and emergency communicators is narrower than the demos suggest.

The UN just mapped the global risk network. Disinformation sits at the centre of it.

The 2026 Global Risk Report separates what institutions can see from what they can act on and that gap is where practitioners now sit.

The AI threat is already documented. Is your crisis plan?

What 154 pages of AI misuse case studies mean for how you do your job

The September reset every crisis team skips.

A readiness checklist for the six weeks between summer and Q4 risk season.

41 minutes: why an alert system is not an early-warning system.

A Reuters investigation into the Nepal-Tibet flood shows why faster messaging can't fix a broken information supply chain.

86% see the risk. 14% train for it.

Deloitte's new Corporate Affairs report ranks crisis and geopolitical training dead last on the 2026 investment list — while calling geopolitics a 'standing condition.'