Insights

Cast your mind back to 1989 — The Simpsons had just hit the small screen, Timothy Dalton’s short time as James Bond was coming to an end with Licence to Kill and, most importantly, John Lewis opened the doors of its flagship store in Aberdeen for the first time.

It’s the late autumn of 2005, and the Stockholm School of Economics is hosting its annual entrepreneurship competition. Student start-ups from the university’s incubator SSE Business Lab will be pitching their ideas to a judging panel and, in proper Dragons’ Den-fashion, receive a verdict, feedback — and, hopefully, capital.

Cooperation agreements between political parties may be a bit like a marriage but as we know, half of all marriages end in divorce.

At some point later in the year, you might sit down to enjoy a nice burger or make a quick stop to fill your car with petrol or even splash out and buy some fruit that is out of season. Well done — you’ve just added to the increasing ‘debt’ of climate change.

Exploring public understanding of what we can do in the fight against climate change. Expert Opinion – Tom Clarkson, Director, Blue Marble Research

Back when I was a journalist, I was asked to take part in a panel judging regional companies for a start-up award. There were four finalists and one of them was a small brewery in Fraserburgh called Brewdog.