Intense lobbying by the multinational whisky industry forced the Scottish Government’s green watchdog to back down on plans ...

The boss of the University of Edinburgh is facing calls to “come clean” over earnings from a second job, amid staff strikes ...

As part of our new series After Oil, Ferret Fact Service looks at four of the key questions around Grangemouth’s closure.

What costs the tax payer more? Asylum support? Benefit fraud? Or tax avoidance? The Ferret took a look at a popular meme.

Scotland’s shift from oil is underway. Our new series, After Oil, asks: who’s winning, who’s losing, and how fair is the ...

Long NHS waits are a concern in Scotland, but is Labour’s claim that they’re 800x more common than in England accurate? Our ...

Scotland’s shift from oil is underway. Our new series asks: who’s winning, who’s losing, and how fair is the transition to clean energy? Energy giant SSE may keep Scotland’s dirtiest power station ...

Anti-migrant protests are becoming more common in Scotland. We looked at the groups attending, the messages being shared and what’s at stake.

Young people in Scotland will be empowered to challenge disinformation thanks to a new project from The Ferret, CILIPS and Young Scot.

Families have been left paying thousands of pounds a year for childcare because Edinburgh City Council has reneged on a flagship Scottish Government policy that promises all children more than 1,000 ...

On a rain-dampened Saturday in central London last month, a sea of Palestinian flags flowed towards Downing Street. Thousands marched bearing placards and chanting familiar demands: an end to the ...

A consultancy firm which took part in a government pilot for fast-tracking salmon farm applications did an “independent” evaluation of that same pilot — prompting critics to call it a “sham” and claim ...