Founder of Hive Instinct (Hiveinstinct.com), I am an experienced writer and journalists, having written thousands of stories across a range of industries.
The world’s wealthiest investors are spreading their fortunes more widely than ever, moving capital beyond the public markets into private companies, real estate, infrastructure, and the technologies expected to define the coming decades. The shift reflects a search for both returns and…
Some of the most interesting young founders in Scotland are working on problems that will not produce a marketable product for years. They are the country’s deep-tech entrepreneurs, building companies rooted in advanced science, and a growing number of them are still…
Edinburgh’s festival season is under way again, and the 2026 edition has brought the now-familiar spectacle of a city remade by culture. Across the capital, the overlapping festivals have filled venues, streets, and squares, cementing August as the month when the Scottish…
Fresh economic figures have given Scotland a genuinely encouraging story to tell, even as the wider picture stays mixed. Business investment has climbed to a 20-year high and job creation has accelerated to its fastest pace in two years, two data points…
Scotland is pushing forward with a national strategy for artificial intelligence that runs to 2031, part of a broader effort to position the country as a serious participant in a technology reshaping economies worldwide. The plan treats AI as a matter of…
For Edinburgh’s football supporters, the early weeks of a new Scottish Premiership season carry a particular charge. The capital’s clubs are pursuing the perennial ambition of the well-supported side outside the Glasgow duopoly, hoping this is the year their resources and their…
Theatre may lend the Edinburgh Fringe its prestige, but comedy is what fills its rooms. Year after year the festival serves as the most important proving ground in the English-speaking comedy world, the place where reputations are made, careers are launched, and…
Scotland has spent years talking about building an entrepreneurial economy. Increasingly, its young founders are turning that talk into companies. From the university spinouts of Edinburgh and Glasgow to ventures emerging well beyond the central belt, a generation of Scottish entrepreneurs in…
Follow the money at the top of the global wealth rankings and it leads, again and again, to artificial intelligence. The world’s billionaires, both those who made their fortunes in technology and those looking to protect wealth built elsewhere, have concentrated an…
For all its success in producing talented graduates and founders, Scotland has long faced a stubborn problem: too many of its brightest young people build their careers elsewhere. Reversing that drift has become a quiet priority, and a growing set of programmes…
