Paul Sweeney

‘An attack on human rights’: how austerity is eroding the lives of disabled people

Karin Goodwin on November 27, 2019November 28, 2019

The Ferret and HuffPost investigate the impact of government austerity policy on the lives of disabled people in Scotland.

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Serco slammed for plans to attend arms fair while evicting asylum seekers

Billy Briggs on August 20, 2019August 22, 2019

Serco, a firm evicting hundreds of asylum seekers from their homes in Glasgow, will be exhibiting at a controversial arms trade show.

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Army under fire for targeting recruitment adverts during ‘January Blues’

Joe Lo on June 21, 2019June 23, 2019

The British Army has been criticised for targeting online recruitment adverts at young, risk-taking, working class Scots suffering the "January Blues".

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Revealed: Glasgow council managers knew about plans to evict refugees

Karin Goodwin, Billy Briggs on December 3, 2018April 6, 2019

Senior managers at Glasgow City Council knew for months about controversial plans to evict hundreds of asylum seekers from their homes, calling into question claims by councillors the council had been "blindsided".

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Finance, Health, Politics

Revealed: £56m cuts to disability payments hit Scotland’s poorest hardest

Billy Briggs, Ally Tibbitt on June 5, 2018August 19, 2019

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.

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Fact check, Politics

Claim that Glasgow drug death rate is over 1000% higher than EU is Mostly True

Ferret Journalists on May 24, 2018January 27, 2020

Ferret Fact Service looks at a claim from Paul Sweeney MP about drug-related deaths in Glasgow.

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Paul Sweeney

Arms trade

Serco slammed for plans to attend arms fair while evicting asylum seekers

Employment, Health

Army under fire for targeting recruitment adverts during ‘January Blues’

Asylum, Politics

Revealed: Glasgow council managers knew about plans to evict refugees

Finance, Health, Politics

Revealed: £56m cuts to disability payments hit Scotland’s poorest hardest

Private finance schemes cost Scottish taxpayers £40bn, says spending watchdog

Scottish homeless deaths to be officially published from next month

Police Scotland taser use up sixfold in four years

2,553 devices awaiting digital analysis, say police