From the editor · 6 November 2026

Welcome to the first issue of The Conversation, TiNYg’s new newsletter and members’ blog. For twenty years TiNYg has brought together the people who keep crowded places, businesses and communities safe. The Conversation is where that network now writes things down.

The UK national threat level has stood at SEVERE since 30 April. Across Europe, deniable hybrid disruption (drones over airports, sabotage-for-hire, and this week a wave of hoax bomb threats against airliners) now sits alongside conventional terrorism on the same risk register. In the UK, Martyn’s Law begins to bite in spring 2027.

This launch issue carries twelve briefings. Each asks the same three questions: what has changed in the last twelve months, why it matters to a private-sector security team, and what a competent organisation should be doing about it now. They are written to be read in five minutes and argued with for longer.

These are seeds, not the last word. If you are a member or premium partner with something to add, challenge or correct, we want to hear from you.

In this issue

The briefings

No. 1 · Regulation Martyn’s Law: the last six months before the clock starts The regime is expected to commence in spring 2027. Organisations that wait for commencement to begin will be building their evidence in a hurry, and the SIA will be able to tell. Read the full briefing ▸	No. 2 · Drones After Leipzig: the drone threat is no longer theoretical On 5 August 2026 an explosive-laden drone struck an aircraft at a German airport. Most private sites still have no means to detect a drone, and no legal right to stop one. Read the full briefing ▸
No. 3 · State threats Sabotage-for-hire: why your company is now on a hostile state’s target list Russia’s campaign against Europe is run through disposable proxies recruited online. The targets are increasingly private companies, and the people who run them. Read the full briefing ▸	No. 4 · Radicalisation Younger, faster, less ideological: the new radicalisation curve Prevent referrals hit a record in the year to September 2025, and more than a third were aged 11 to 15. The threat model built around ideology and adulthood is out of date. Read the full briefing ▸
No. 5 · Technology The chatbot in the attack cycle: what the evidence on AI and terrorism actually shows AI is not yet a game-changer for terrorism. It is an accelerant, and it is quietly removing one of the most reliable early warnings security teams have had. Read the full briefing ▸	No. 6 · Communities From Heaton Park to HAYI: the state-terror hybrid aimed at Jewish communities, and at Western business Antisemitic terrorism is now driven both by lone actors and by an Iranian state-linked proxy campaign. The same campaign has named US and Israeli commercial interests as targets. Read the full briefing ▸
No. 7 · Crowded places Cars and blades: why low-tech attacks remain the hardest to stop The most likely attack on a crowded place in 2027 will not involve drones or AI. It will involve a hired van or a kitchen knife, and it will be over in under five minutes. Read the full briefing ▸	No. 8 · Executive protection The executive as target: protective intelligence after Thompson Targeted violence against corporate leaders doubled in 2025. Most attackers are strangers, most attacks are ambushes on predictable routines, and most warning signs appear online first. Read the full briefing ▸
No. 9 · Jihadist threat Islamic State’s southern pipeline: why the Sahel is now Europe’s problem Islamic State’s core has been degraded, but its African affiliates are building routes into Europe. The Berlin Pride attacker’s journey shows how. Read the full briefing ▸	No. 10 · Hoaxes The hoax as a weapon: this week’s aviation bomb threats and what they mean for every venue No device was found on any aircraft. But hoaxes now achieve much of what an attack does: disruption, cost, fear and a view of how responders behave. Read the full briefing ▸
No. 11 · Convergence When the freezer is the target: cyber-physical convergence and the security systems we forget to secure Overnight on 1 to 2 November, attackers remotely heated supermarket freezers to around 50°C in seven countries. The lesson for security teams is that our own cameras and door controllers sit on the same exposed networks. Read the full briefing ▸	No. 12 · Insider risk The insider for hire: how criminals and states now buy their way in Insider risk used to mean the disgruntled employee. In 2026 it increasingly means the employee who has been offered money, by a ransomware gang or a foreign intelligence service, through an app on their phone. Read the full briefing ▸

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