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The standard UK Government Alert State System is as follows:

RED indicates that a UK interest is believed to be the target of an imminent terrorist attack.

AMBER indicates that domestic or international events suggest that there is a SUBSTANTIAL threat to UK interests.

BLACK SPECIAL indicates that domestic or international events require the need for additional security to address the INCREASED LIKELIHOOD of a threat of terrorist attack against UK interests.

BLACK is a STANDARD level of security to address the ever-present general threat from terrorism to UK interests.

What other important coding system contains the same colour twice? Does the Home Office printer only do three colours? How are they intending to convey our current status visually anyway? “Are we at Black Special, Terry, or have the electrics gone again?”

Is ‘Black Special’ perhaps not all that special? Or is it a separate colour after all, dipping into the outer frequencies on the colour spectrum that we can't actually see?

Is this meant to confuse the enemy? Could the enemy be any more confused than us?

Whose, ultimately, the fuck idea was this?