8legs: House of lords national resilience committee hearing

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QUENTIN LETTS: 'Resilience committee'... or flower arrangers' meeting?

Latest: Lords' National Resilience committee hearing described as more like a flower-arrangers’ meeting than a crisis briefing.
Witnesses included NAO officials and a Resilience Academy head, discussing risk systems and non-linear risk.
Committee chair and members showed a mix of formality and informal behavior during the session.
Witness Eleanor Parker of the Resilience Academy described training and learning opportunities in the sector.
One witness emphasized vulnerabilities and the need for robust risk systems amid possible crop failures and floods.
The session included commentary on food stockpiling as a national preparedness measure.
The rhetoric included terms like ‘Consequence Tree,’ ‘interconnectedness,’ and other risk-management jargon.
An ex-RAF lord asked, 'Are we having the right conversation?' signaling concern about the focus of discussions.
The article notes a sense of doom about national resilience and risk management.
The report underscores the committee’s attempt to balance bureaucratic language with practical questions.

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