Storm bru-ing
FOR a brief moment, we thought one of Scotland’s most famous companies had been thrust into one of the biggest political storms in the US.
AG Barr, we read, had produced a summary of the hotly-anticipated Mueller investigation into alleged interference in the 2016 election.
Alas, this was not a rare incursion into politics by the maker of Irn-Bru, but a report by the US Attorney General William Barr.
Naturally, the coincidence did not go unnoticed on Scottish Twitter.
One wag quipped: “The only public testimony we want from AG Barr is to announce a return of full sugar Irn-Bru.”
Angelic line-up
SCOTLAND’S only all-female business angel group has unveiled the line-up for its forthcoming annual conference.
Investing Women has revealed that Shelley Kerr, the manager of the Scottish women’s football team, Virgin Galactic executive Jaime Nieto, and Mary-Anne Daly, UK chief executive of Cazenove Capital, will speak at the event, which will be held at Edinburgh’s Informatics Forum on Tuesday April 23. It is being staged in partnership with EIE 2019, the technology investor showcase.
Saucy Brexit
IN these fevered political times, Brexit is conflated with every aspect of life. Including, it seems, condiments.
One JD Wetherspoon pub-goer has written to the company to enquire whether Brexit is “stopping the flow of tomato ketchup in your establishments.”
Greg Osborne of Derby writes in the latest edition of Wetherspoon News that he had encountered empty ketchup bottles on recent visits to three of the pub giant’s outlets.
“Is this a Brexit plot or simply due to none one being asked to refill the bottles before the pub opens?” Mr Osborne enquired.
Wetherspoon chairman Tim Martin, whose results statements have morphed recently into pro-Brexit sermons, surprised this observer by declining to mention the UK’s exit from the EU in his response.
He did, however, pledge that staff would be “more vigilant” about the sauce.
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