If there is a terrorist incident or some other threat or event involving national security, there is a seamless response programme which mobilizes all relevant services under the COBRA umbrella, delivering exceptional outcomes in often challenging and heartrending crises. But we have seen several instances of what might be called civil threats, for example the […]
The political landscape has so many different aspects that to blog about the whole picture is too complex in a reasonable length post. So I shall be making a number of key points over the following days. Readers can join them up or just remember the things that grab their attention. Today let us take […]
Once again we find ourselves expressing horror and sharing the pain of the victims and their loved ones caught up in tragedy. We are familiar in these islands with violence between Protestant and Catholic. We have suffered terror attacks from a perversion of Islam called IS. We cannot now go down the road of attacking […]