Scottish universities have accepted millions of pounds from Chinese organisations with alleged links to the military, human rights abuses and spying, The Ferret can reveal. Some universities accepted ...

It took John Swinney two and a half months to secure a key meeting with Sir Jim Ratcliffe on the future for workers at Grangemouth – and the billionaire only spared half an hour of his time on a video ...

Glasgow City Council has been accused of “moral” and “bureaucratic” failure over delays to a memorial for victims of the Covid-19 pandemic which is sitting in storage at taxpayers expense. Former ...

First minister John Swinney has been rapped by the UK statistics regulator for making a misleading claim about Scottish education, following a fact check from The Ferret. During a Holyrood meeting in ...

The future of Holyrood was called into question this week, after claims that more than a third of Scots wanted to abolish the devolved parliament. Numerous social media accounts and media outlets ...

A new bill to widen freedom of information legislation in Scotland and cover private firms providing public services has been introduced to the Scottish Parliament. Katy Clark MSP’s bill aims to ...

Ferret Fact Service looked into this claim in a fact-check article and gave it a ‘Mostly False’ rating. This was because Swinney was using one specific type of attainment – positive destinations for ...

Carla Almeida, previously the Remembering Together lead for Greenspace Scotland, who oversaw the 32 projects across Scotland, said despite various hurdles the national project had many highlights and ...

Scottish Liberal Democrat MSP Jamie Greene said Ratcliffe “seems happy to paint himself as something of a pantomime villain”. But he said the “onus is on the first minister’s office to keep the ...

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A new bill to widen freedom of information legislation in Scotland and cover private firms providing public services has been introduced to the Scottish Parliament. Katy Clark MSP’s bill aims to ...