Risk to public trust
Today the contact tracing app is finally launched as part of the UK government strategy to combat the covid virus. Will this be a useful tool or another expensive experiment in centralised big [...]
Compromise risk: ‘cake-and- eat-it’ syndrome
Viral epidemics have been part of human civilisation for centuries. Black Death in the fourteenth and Plague in the seventeenth, are only the most famous but there were many more local [...]
Risk, the law & reputation
Risk is a choice you take having balanced the cost against the gain. In the corporate investment world a vast number of factors are considered in taking financial risk. By contrast in the legal [...]
Reputation damage & how to avoid it
What is the greatest risk to reputation? It must surely be that people decide you cannot be trusted to deliver on your promises. Relationships, both personal and commercial depend on trust as a [...]
Investment risk – the new dilemma
It is almost 50 years since Milton Friedman declared social responsibility ‘unadulterated socialism’. The primary responsibility of a company board as he saw it was to its shareholders measured [...]
Pandemic policy – risk in the workplace
Nineteen weeks after lockdown began in the UK on 23 March and the government message has shifted from ‘stay at home’ to ‘go back to the office’. Employers are now responsible for making the [...]
Reputational laundromat
The Russia report of the intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) released today claims that Russian money was probably used to buy influence in British politics. It claims that the UK [...]
Virus testing in the UK – Are we safe yet?
Government figures released on Thursday 24 June show just how poorly the test and trace system is working in the UK yet correcting this doesn’t appear to be a priority for the [...]
Preventable deaths – the blame game
No government covers itself in glory handling a new virus; mistakes will be made learning on the job. However the UK government is still not in control of the epidemic and has incurred a higher [...]
Stay Alert – Has risk been transferred unfairly?
The UK government policy change from ‘Stay at home’ to ‘Stay alert’ represents a watershed moment in the country’s response to coronavirus. What was previous an unacceptable risk has [...]
