Month: June 2020

Live in Edinburgh? Your city needs you. For the good of Scotland’s capital, you must “act like a tourist”.  You see, the tourist industry doesn’t have any tourists to sell ...

The rural economy secretary, Fergus Ewing, has been accused of breaching the ministerial code by failing to record 25 meetings with the fish farming industry. Figures released under freedom of ...

A panic about contact tracing in Minnesota, United States, spread after Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington said that they were “contact tracing” protestors there.  “As we’ve begun making arrests, we ...

Before I saw the results of the new Scot Goes Pop / Panelbase poll, the trend I found easiest to predict was a sharp decline for the Tories.  They've been ...

Following the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis, we need to look at the institutional racism still prevalent, and why we still need the Black Lives ...

When proposals for a new pro-independence party were first aired, it was in the context of ensuring that there would be a majority for independence in Holyrood. The discussion centred ...

The Scottish Government is going to ban the fish farming industry from shooting seals to save a £180 million export business to the US, The Ferret can reveal. Scottish ministers ...

Take a step back and look at the United States, 2020. Over 100,000 dead from Covid-19, by far the most in the world. Responding to a global crisis by exiting ...

IF WE ARE GOING to ‘Build Back Better’, we need to create a common understanding of how the pandemic has exposed the failures of our economy and democracy, develop the ...

If you’re some sort of masochist with especially recondite tastes, or perhaps if you’ve already binged watched your way through the entire Netflix catalogue as you lay on the sofa ...