Everyone’s medical history and records should be confidential and secure in the hands of the NHS. But there have been serious ...

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 ...

The Ferret did a deep dive to explain why a bird cull on Lewis dating back centuries is causing outrage amid claims it's a ...

Investigative journalism for Scotland.

The Scottish Government gave local authorities £20m to tackle a "nature emergency". But we found that around £4m of that sum ...

A Scottish wind farm has been bought by a company whose founder and major shareholder is a right-wing US media mogul who has donated to Donald Trump. In March, an arm of Liberty Global bought the ...

Scotland’s first spaceport on Shetland plans to use the sea as a “dustbin” to dump tonnes of debris from rockets, The Ferret can reveal, prompting claims it could endanger tourism and fishing.

Alastair leads our fact-checking arm, The Ferret Fact Service, and writes about disinformation and conspiracy theories. He also delivers training on media literacy and spotting disinformation. He ...

Jamie is an investigative journalist who writes on issues such as illicit finance, dark money, political influence, land ownership, nature, the environment and far right extremism. He loves puns but ...

Paul is an investigative journalist with a focus on the environment, energy and climate change. His work has been featured by Channel 4 News and the UK’s leading newspapers. When not Ferreting he can ...

The Scottish Government has been accused of trying to “manipulate the record” of its meeting with an Israeli diplomat after documents released to The Ferret show it changed the official minutes of the ...