A letter to the Deputy UK Prime Minster and Secretary of State for the Cabinet Office was sent today concerning the recently published ‘National Risk Register: 2023 edition’. It points out that an existential threat is missing from his matrix in the NRR23. Law PB claims that H.M. Government is deliberately seeking to mislead the public (via other experts) as to the seriousness of this omission.
A copy of the letter is available here while a signed original (but without active url links) is provided here .
The reason for publishing this on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States is to contrast the religious motivations in that terrorist attack with those behind this ‘9/11’ challenge. That the former is taken so much more seriously than the latter is a barometer of how little political institutions understand of the way the ‘real’ world of international conflict actually ‘works’ over the long term. That refusal to learn may eventually cost the world the equivalent in lives of up to a thousand 9/11s every day for seven years.