Scotland’s leading independent schools were worth £12.3m more in 2021 than they were the previous year, despite the ...

Thousands of species rely on Scotland’s indigenous trees to survive. In our public woodlands, they’re vastly outnumbered by ...

Artificial intelligence has fuelled a “significant” surge in objections to some of Scotland’s biggest planning applications and prompted the Scottish Government to stop accepting public responses by ...

A string of central Glasgow properties are owned by a company belonging to the head of an investment firm behind a Russian shipping hub. Researchers say the port sustains Moscow’s illegal invasion of ...

A loyalist killer from Northern Ireland and a former member of the banned terror group the Ulster Volunteer Force attended an anti-immigration demonstration in ...

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The Scottish Government has been accused of courting “genocide-profiteers” less than a year after Holyrood voted to boycott Israel and companies who supply its military. ‘Team Scotland’ - as the ...

Scotland’s NHS boards have recorded more than 5,000 data breaches over the last four years, The Ferret can reveal. Incidents included staff sharing confidential patient information, a cancer patient's ...

Moves to keep Scotland’s increasingly cracked reactors at Torness in East Lothian generating electricity until 2030 or 2032 have prompted formal action from the UK government’s nuclear safety watchdog ...

Children in Scotland’s care system are twice as likely to die as others, yet the majority of their deaths are still not being reviewed, The Ferret has found. Campaigners say these revelations, ...

Anti-immigration activists from England are due to travel to Glasgow for a protest later this month, amid fears of more street violence this summer. Unite the Clans Scotland (UTC), a group branded far ...

Billy is a founder and co-editor of The Ferret. He's reported internationally and from Scotland, and focuses on far right extremism, human rights, animal welfare, and the arms trade. Likes longform ...