I explored the extraordinary surge in sales of Scotch Whisky in Türkiye in recent years – despite years of high taxes and a ban on alcohol.

Issue 11 of IQ has arrived on my desk, again offering rich pickings for curious minds. Highlights include physicist Jim Al-Khalili and...

Even more entertaining was the story behind Fitba, featuring Hibs casuals, pots of stovies, Rod Stewart, and a chain-smoking Scotty dog.

Russell Napier: "People are surprised when things go wrong and oblivious to the fact that these mistakes are made over and over again."

I was tickled pink to collect the PPA Scotland award for Best Member Magazine for IQ, the magazine for Mensa members in the UK & Ireland.

When each story was finished, I slammed a carbon copy through the metal spike on my desk. Health & safety hadn't really caught on in 1988.