Homefront Core
The backbone. One subject per episode, made usable: what it is, what people think it is, who decides about it, and what a citizen can ask or do.
About Homefront
Security, explained for the people it affects.
Homefront helps ordinary citizens understand the security world they live in, and take part in it. We take war, hybrid threats and disasters, and ask what they mean for people, their families and their communities.
You read the news and notice the security layer of it: a drone over an airport, a cut cable, a leaflet about emergency kits, a headline about defence budgets. It is hard to tell how worried to be, what it means for you, or whether you have any say. That is the gap we work in.
We think informed people feel more secure and make better decisions together. We are not here to frighten you, reassure you, or tell you what to think.
What we do
Three strands, one feed.
Homefront Memories
One past event told through the civilians who lived it: what they did, what they asked of those in charge, and the lesson for today.
Homefront Today
When a major event happens, context for a confusing headline, recorded a few days later, always pointing to a deeper episode.
How we work · Empower
Stay calm, get informed, carry on.
Everyone knows the old wartime poster: Keep Calm and Carry On. Our take adds the step in the middle. Calm comes from understanding what is going on, so we give people the facts and the questions to ask, not the conclusions. Someone on any side of a debate should finish an episode better equipped to make their own case.
We are
- Following the news every week, so you don't have to track every story yourself.
- Reading what governments actually publish: plans, budgets and official guidance.
- Talking to experts, and to people who have lived through it.
- Making complex words easy to understand: the everyday word first, then the term.
- Linking every source, so you can check for yourself.
We are not
- Funded by any government or organisation
- A campaign for or against defence spending
- A prepper show
- A news bulletin or a lecture
Homefront is independent. If we ever take funding, we will say so here: who funds us, how much, and for what.
Your hosts
Two experts, two vantage points.
Both have worked on the operational side, running programmes rather than observing them. On air they share the talking, and each asks the question the listener is thinking.
Luke Irving
Mine action · Civil–military
Luke has spent more than fifteen years leading humanitarian disarmament, mine action governance and international cooperation in conflict and post-conflict settings. His work helps states and international organisations build institutions that last, strengthen humanitarian norms and protect civilians from explosive threats.
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He has worked for the United Nations in the field, including as Head of Mission for UNMAS (the UN Mine Action Service) in Palestine. He has also been Country Director for DanChurchAid in Iraq, Programme Officer with the World Food Programme and Programme Manager with Mayday Rescue.
He served with the British Army's Royal Engineers from 2008 to 2022, including in Estonia with NATO's enhanced Forward Presence. He brings together executive leadership, diplomatic engagement and the operational credibility that comes from service with the UN, NGOs and the army.
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Giuliano Stochino-Weiss
Hybrid threats · Brussels
Giuliano is a security and defence professional based in Brussels, working at the intersection of dual-use technology, civilian resilience and non-military warfare. His current research concerns civilian resilience and warfare below the threshold of armed conflict, and how European societies sustain preparedness in the face of it.
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He advises defence and technology companies on the development and positioning of dual-use capability in ISR, remote sensing and early warning, with a particular focus on tailoring such capability to humanitarian, human rights and stabilisation purposes alongside its defence applications.
Ukraine is his principal area of expertise. He was deployed there from 2022 to 2025, directing emergency operations from the opening days of the full-scale invasion and subsequently leading relief efforts across the Donetsk and Kharkiv regions, working throughout alongside civil-military authorities. As a specialist in operations in non-permissive environments he has also worked in Iraq, Afghanistan, Ethiopia and Armenia/Nagorno-Karabakh, opening missions and directing country programmes under conditions of active conflict and restricted access.
He is co-founder of AQLITY, an Irish NGO applying data and AI to decision-making in crisis settings, where he now serves as a trustee. He began his career at the Permanent Mission of Hungary to the United Nations in New York. He holds an MA in War Studies and International Security from Leiden University.
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Who it's for
Curious citizens, and the experts who help them.
We make the show for voters, neighbours, parents and members of a community: anyone who follows the news and wants to understand what it means for them. No specialist knowledge needed. If someone feels talked down to, an episode has failed.