Glittering celebration of trailblazing women at annual tech awards
As the end of the year approaches we’re attending a string of cheerful industry gatherings where awards make an admirable excuse to sit down for a meal with colleagues and…
Dopey, Sleepy and Happy … How Friday afternoons were for one of the Seven Dwarfs of computing
Tech guru Ian Ritchie has penned a book about his time working with ICL in Dalkeith, and then setting up the hypertext pioneers, Office Workstations Limited (OWL). In the 1980s…
You can call me Hal
One of the most audacious movies ever made was 2001: A Space Odyssey, a visual feast when it was first released in groovy 1968. Produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick…
Up on the roof
Here’s a quiz question for all trained observers. Where in Scotland is The Bolt and Peanut? Clue: it’s not a new Wetherspoons pub. But it’s hidden in plain sight in…
Looking Vlad in the eye
Beer giant Carlsberg being forced into selling off its Russian brewing assets for the price of a few barrels of beer brought back some memories. It reminded Sideways Glance of the…
Please can we have some common sense on parking
There’s no shortage of issues to keep business folks awake in the middle of the night. How to pay next month’s salaries usually tops the insomnia list. But in recent…
Please Andrew, the Ant and Dec joke has gone too far
Andrew Wilson, the former SNP MSP, has flitted to a seriously big job with Santander UK. He has departed Charlotte Street Partners, the Edinburgh-based public affairs agency he set up…
How Morgan became chairman of the board
Morgan’s chess sets are painstakingly produced from hand-cast pewter
Shoulder-to-shoulder on the picket line… with Michael Gove
With widespread industrial action now returning to our daily lives, a recent ‘swallie’ of greying Scotch hacks were recounting their war stories from the notorious Aberdeen Journals dispute between August…
