As we all attempt to cope with a post-pandemic economic crisis driven by soaring energy prices, a quite shocking social indicator reveals that three-out-of-four charities are currently falling by the wayside. Latest…
It was colder in those times. We had a fire in the kitchen which my grandmother lit, using newspaper and sticks to ignite the coal. The milk arrived in a…
What is this thing called growth? You will all have your own understanding of the term as you have experienced it yourself. You grew as a child and then it…
I’m knocking on a bit in years now but I have such a clear memory of visiting my granny in Springburn and my mum taking me hand-in-hand to the shops….
I’m not sure that my profession has done a very good job of explaining the implications of climate change. We do tend to think in terms of infections spread by…
I suppose that the first thing that comes to mind on reading the word ‘delivery’, after long hiding from Covid in our homes, is delivery of parcels by Amazon or…
The Holyrood tech conference lights dimmed as keynote speaker Edward P Gibson took to the podium. The former FBI senior special agent and head of Microsoft UK, who I had…
‘What will the news be about when the war is over?’ I recall asking my mother this question after hearing that an atom bomb had destroyed Hiroshima. That wireless in…
If you must have a mantra, and we all expect it now from our leaders, ‘stability’ is not a bad choice, certainly better than the ‘growth’ or ‘delivery’ that I…
Was there ever a time when we didn’t kickstart our day by automatically picking up the mobile or placing a personal computer onto our lap to go online? A bygone age, when…