Long-form writing on business continuity, operational resilience, and technology — from practice, not theory.
The UK holds constitutional responsibility for fourteen Overseas Territories. The Civil Contingencies Act covers none of them. On the structural absence in British resilience policy that nobody states explicitly.
Climate, infrastructure fragility, financial services concentration, and the emerging geopolitical pressures facing the Caribbean territories — including a first-hand account of two hurricanes and what they revealed about the gap between planning and reality.
US hemispheric assertiveness has moved from rhetoric to policy. The assumption of allied restraint that has protected British territory interests in the Caribbean for two centuries is now less stable than at any point in the post-war period.
The territories are framed as legacy liability. They are a distributed resilience asset across five ocean regions that no purely European power possesses. On what genuine integration into the national resilience framework would require — and deliver.
Most organisations' cloud resilience strategies rest on an assumption nobody states explicitly: that the cloud will be there when you need it. On geopolitical change, physical targeting, and what proper cloud risk assessment looks like.
Workforce diversity and resilience are not often discussed together. They should be. The homogeneity of most BC teams creates blind spots that no framework or standard can compensate for.
On the relationship between national resilience, sovereign capability, and the ethical obligations of the state toward its citizens — and why the current trajectory is insufficient.
Scenario-based planning has a fundamental weakness: it prepares you for the scenarios you imagined. Impact-based planning prepares you for what actually matters — regardless of cause.
The disciplines rarely speak to each other. They should. The assumptions embedded in product roadmaps often carry resilience risks that only become visible when something goes wrong.
Iterative delivery, version control, and testing in safe environments — software development has solved problems that BC programmes still struggle with. A cross-discipline argument for borrowing the best.
Pre-production, contingency callsheets, and shooting on a schedule you cannot control. Filmmaking has more to teach BC professionals about structured flexibility than most industry frameworks.
Annual testing and plan reviews are not enough. BC awareness needs to be a continuous thread in how organisations operate — not a scheduled event on the risk calendar.
The original proposal for a Cabinet-level Office of National Resilience, submitted to government via Simon's MP and shared with the Security Minister — whose office issued a formal response. This article preceded and informed the subsequent House of Lords written evidence submission (NLR0007, April 2026).
The case for embedding resilience as a cross-curricular capability — including specific consideration for SEN learners, for whom predictable responses to unpredictable events are both most important and most in need of careful design.
A full policy framework for cross-curricular resilience education from Key Stage 1 to higher education — with SEN-specific implementation guidance absent from current policy discussions, and a direct thread back to the ONR proposal.