Month: January 2019

It's the morning after the night before and as the light at the end of the Brexit tunnel looks increasingly like the No Deal express thundering down the track we ...

Holyrood’s £82 million pension fund is to be reviewed after campaigners questioned whether some of its investments were ethical. The Ferret revealed on 9 December that MSP pensions were being invested ...

Interesting result. The poll doesn’t ask about “hard” or soft” BREXIT so it is the very idea of leaving the EU which people want to decide on. Also, with only ...

After the devastating defeat of the government’s Brexit deal on Tuesday, came Wednesday’s vote of confidence called by Jeremy Corbyn. As expected, those Tories who voted down the central policy ...

We rightly mock the archaic rules and culture that pervades Westminster. But as Holyrood comes up for its 20th anniversary, it needs reformed and improved (pension investments being one area ...

There's a rather odd little article on the New Statesman website by Patrick Maguire, claiming that Lady Hermon's announcement that she will never back any motion of no confidence means ...

Nearly 19,000 litter louts caught in Glasgow have been let off paying £1.5million worth of fines, The Ferret can reveal. Community Safety Glasgow (CSG) is a joint venture between Glasgow ...

Evidence emerges UK Government Asset Protection Agency pushed RBS outfit to take aggressive measures against small and medium businesses The Royal Bank of Scotland’s Global Restructuring Group was supposed to help businesses ...

Airbnb has been lobbying behind the scenes to stave off tighter regulations for short-term lets in Scotland, documents obtained by The Ferret reveal. The online lodging firm claims to add ...

So the usual health warnings at this point - what you're about to see is not a "poll", it should not be referred to as "the latest Scottish poll", and ...