The People’s Emergency Briefing

When: Wednesday, April 15, 2026, 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Where: BLOC Cinema, ArtsOne Building, Mile End

Late last year the National Emergency Briefing (NEB) was held in Westminster where the UKs top scientists and doctors, along with a previous Senior British Army Officer, gave a historic briefing on the risk of “unprecedented societal and ecological collapse" to 1,200 MPs and other decision-makers, calling for a new "World War Two type response."

This echoed the findings of the MI5 and MI6 Joint Intelligence report that urged for a measured conversation about the “realistic possibility” that “ecosystems critical to UK national security” start to collapse by “2030 or sooner." A national security threat that could leave the UK in a state struggling to “maintain food supply." An ITV investigation’s last month discovered that the full report had been withheld, in which our intelligence community forecasts possible contractions in the economy of more than double that of the 2008 crisis and even the risk of “mass mortality events”.

Unfortunately, although these risks have become consensus among experts from academia to national security, both the general public and decision makers are being left without this awareness and therefore without agency to respond. But that is changing now. You are invited to witness a debut screening of the People’s Emergency Briefing (45 min) and, crucially, take part in a community discussion afterward. Screenings are occurring all over the nation - so join us and help make Tower Hamlets aware and resilient. Only together can we process and decide what comes next.