“Stop The World Scotland Wants To Get On” - one of the great quotes from Winnie Ewing - 91 years young today. Happy Birthday, Winnie! https://t.co/8gSgU3ab9w
Better late than never - well done @FacultyScot??????? https://t.co/bjAOEInLdr
Condolences to friends and family of Harry Smith - always informed and always courteous, a real broadcaster. https://t.co/j1spkUngg3
Eid Mubarak to all Muslim friends and colleagues! #EidUlFitr https://t.co/Nm71fGUjnr
Over four decades at Aberdeen, Martin Gilbert has demonstrated that it is possible to build a world rated business from a Scottish base. It does happen but very rarely - well played Martin. https://t.co/r6Tqur0MT8
Fine work from @LesleyRiddoch, Charlie Stuart and Patrick Doyle. Scotland should celebrate the Arbroath Declaration as a statement of European and world significance, a gleam of hope lighting the medieval darkness #DeclarationofArbroath #Arbroath700 https://t.co/SPMqR0H3p3
He served on the Scottish Government’s Council of Economic Advisers from 2007 to 2014 and despite these glittering academic prizes still listed this public contribution as one of his great achievements. Only this Christmas he wrote to me saying he’d be proud to serve again (2/3)
Few people of such brilliance have ever carried it with such modesty. I will miss him greatly, as should Scotland, and offer my condolences to Claudia, David, Jim and Nicky and all his many friends.
Andrew Hughes Hallet, who passed away on Hogmanay, was one of the leading economists of his generation having held professorships at no less than ten world universities including Harvard and Princeton (1/3)
I first met Colin in the 1980s when we produced party TV broadcasts on a shoestring budget of £200 per episode. He was every bit as decent and committed a person when he had many tens of millions. Condolences to friends and family (2/2)