Sir Paul McCartney is among the big names who have signed up for a TV concert to support health workers fighting the coronavirus. One World: Together at Home will be live-streamed in the US on 18 April and screened on BBC One the following day. Others performing include James Bond theme tune winner Billie Eilish, […]
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First Minister left scarred by Calderwood’s ill-judged trips
As I See It: Terry Murden Nicola Sturgeon certainly doesn’t have her troubles to seek. In the space of a few weeks she has lost four key figures she may reasonably have expected to be pillars of strength. First the Finance Secretary quit over a texting scandal; her predecessor’s dirty linen has been washed in […]
In the rush online beware of a new type of virus
Tech Talk: Bill Magee It reads like a tale of industrial espionage worthy of gracing the pages of a Le Carre novel and centred on a deadly global virus. But not Covid-19. Enter the “Wicked Panda.” Wicked what..? you might ask. Read on. Businesses should realise there is another virulent outbreak out there and in […]
Let’s hope the experts have called it right on the lockdown
On the Money: Alan Steel I’ve been in the financial advisory industry for over 47 years now and I’ve never seen anything like this before. I survived the 1973/75 stock market crash when the FTSE All-Share Index fell 72% peak to bottom when after months of red prices and anguish, prices plummeted in the last […]
What will the post-lockdown world really look like?
Adapting to a lockdown lifestyle has left us all pondering what changes may be ahead. TERRY MURDEN take a look into the near future (pic: Victoria Street, Edinburgh, DB Media Services) We keep getting told a different world will emerge from the coronavirus blitzkrieg and two weeks into the health-enforced lockdown we’re all asking just […]