Pillars Global - The Resilience Briefing

From Piper Alpha to Martyn’s Law: Why We Never Learn in Time

What a decade‑long wait for Martyn’s Law reveals about our politics, our priorities and our duty of care.

Apr 20 • Steve F

March 2026

When the Fuel Stops, Paper Fails: The Philippine Energy Emergency as an ASEAN Resilience Case

Why the Philippines’ ongoing energy emergency is not an anomaly, but a signal of how ASEAN systems behave under sustained constraint

Mar 30 • Steve F

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Intelligence Without Insight

Why Corporate Risk Products Are Failing Decision-Makers in Conflict Environments

Mar 23 • Steve F

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Actuarial Warfare at the World’s Energy Arteries

Modern maritime conflict is no longer defined solely by missiles or blockades. Increasingly, it is about pushing risk high enough that insurance markets…

Mar 16 • Steve F

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Security Provision and Economic Entrenchment in the Gulf: Toward a Bifurcated Hegemonic Order

Why the 2026 Iran War Is Splitting the Gulf Between American Security and Chinese Power

Mar 4 • Steve F

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February 2026

Crowd Safety Is a Physics Problem First

Why Quantitative Modelling and System Design Outperform Framework Expansion in Modern Crowd Risk Practice

Feb 27 • Steve F

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When Resilience Becomes a Market:

Commercial Incentives and System Design in Modern Resilience Governance

Feb 19 • Steve F

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Professional Currency at 51: FREC Level 3 Revalidation, UKRC 2025 Amendments, and the Governance Risk of Competence Drift

Structured Recalibration, Evidence Alignment, and the Discipline of Operational Integrity in High-Responsibility Roles

Feb 16 • Steve F

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From Business Continuity to Business Resilience: Killing the Binder-on-a-Shelf Mindset

When systems fail, most organisations don’t respond — they collapse.

Feb 4 • Steve F

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January 2026

The Resilience Briefing

Why PillarsGlobal treats resilience as a performance system — not a compliance function

Jan 27 • Steve F

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