The correct response to a disaster like Covid is to plan for the next one. I don’t see Britain doing it
Lucy Easthope
Think local, listen to the experts and get diverse voices in the room, says emergency planner Lucy Easthope
June 2024
I want to survive the apocalypse – but not if it’s just me and some terrible billionaires
Emma Beddington
Since the pandemic, remote properties have been marketed for off-grid living. But a life spent gardening and eating cormorants is not for me, writes Emma Beddington
May 2024
Biohazards, Putin, extremism… we’ll need more than a few tins of beans
Martha Gill
Oliver Dowden’s advice on stockpiling forgets that co-operation is vital if we are to stand a chance against modern threats
December 2023
‘We never drop below 30 toilet rolls’: the Britons stockpiling for a crisis
Tell us: do you stockpile items to prepare yourself for certain scenarios?
November 2023
The rural network, Victoria
The Optus outage underlines the need for emergency mobile roaming
Mark Gregory
Australia lags behind New Zealand, the US and Canada in not allowing mobile roaming during disasters – but the ACCC has cleared the way
September 2023
What would happen if Russia invaded Finland? I went to a giant war game in London to find out
Here, military personnel, Nato staff and others are facing off in a simulation. The winners? Those who stop the world plunging into catastrophe. The losers? Us, if they get it wrong
July 2023
NSW government quietly drops partial merger of SES and Rural Fire Service proposed by flood inquiry
Labor looking at ways to improve ‘interoperability’ between the agencies instead of unpopular amalgamation option
