Arms trade
Glasgow council drops logo – but keeps backing arms fair
Glasgow City Council removes its logo from a controversial arms fair - but keeps backing the event.
Ferret Journalists
Environment, Fact check
Claim Scotland’s climate targets are toughest in the world is False
Ferret Fact Service looks at a claim by the SNP on the new climate change bill and its targets on emissions.
Finance
Offshore links to Scottish private finance deals revealed
Most of the Scottish Government's £8 billion private finance projects to build schools, hospitals and roads have links to offshore tax havens.
Finance, Health, Politics
Revealed: £56m cuts to disability payments hit Scotland’s poorest hardest
Many of Scotland's poorest communities have been hit hardest by cuts to disability benefits with over £56 million lost in annual payments, The Ferret can reveal.
Fact check, Politics
FFS Explains: the changing benefits system in the UK and Scotland
Ferret Fact Service looks at Westminster welfare reforms and changes to Holyrood’s benefits system.
Fact check, Politics
Claim that Glasgow drug death rate is over 1000% higher than EU is Mostly True
Ferret Fact Service looks at a claim from Paul Sweeney MP about drug-related deaths in Glasgow.
Human rights, Privacy and surveillance
Police criticised for million pound spend on mobile phone cracking tools
Police Scotland have admitted that they have not fully considered the privacy or human rights implications of new mobile phone analysis tools that are to be used throughout Scotland.
Crime and justice, Fact check
Claim that Scotland had higher rate of race-related murders is Mostly True
Ferret Fact Service looks at a claim about racially-motivated crime in a new book about racism in Scotland.
Fact check, Politics
Claim that 30 per cent of children in the UK are born into poverty is True
Ferret Fact Service looks at Scottish Greens co-convenor Patrick Harvie’s claim on child poverty levels in the UK.