Founder of Hive Instinct (Hiveinstinct.com), I am an experienced writer and journalists, having written thousands of stories across a range of industries.
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…
Every Edinburgh Fringe produces a handful of shows that break out of the thousands on offer to become the ones people press on each other in bars and queues. The 2026 edition, its programme as vast as ever, has already begun sorting…
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…
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…
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…
Scottish football is back. The 2026-27 Premiership season has kicked off, and with it the familiar rhythms of a competition that combines fierce local rivalry with the constant financial pressure of trying to compete on a European stage from a small domestic…
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…
The companies drawing the most attention in any economy are rarely the ones doing the heaviest lifting. New analysis from BDO points to Scotland’s mid-market firms, the businesses too large to be startups and too modest to make headlines, as the real…
The latest figures from the Scottish Government describe an economy pulling in two directions at once. Output rose by 0.6 percent, a respectable enough number in a difficult climate, while unemployment climbed to its highest level in two years. Both things are…
Governments talk endlessly about backing entrepreneurs. Rather fewer put a structured programme behind the words. Scotland’s First Minister has moved to do so with a new Start-Up Challenge aimed squarely at young founders, an attempt to turn the country’s entrepreneurial rhetoric into…
