Month: December 2020

First published in September 2017, this report by Cormac Hourigan looks at the rise at self-harming in Scottish prisons.  This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - ...

Journalist Richard Baynes examines the science behind increased awareness of fish sentience and pain responses, the fears of campaigners about fish welfare, and the industry response to these concerns. This ...

AS a year that none of us will forget approaches its end, we asked a variety of figures from around Scotland what their hopes were for 2021. Adam Ramsay: “To ...

 Jim Cuthbert, an Edinburgh-based economist who investigates private finance projects explain why they have concerns over the use of private finance to fund new schools, health centres and roads in ...

Journalist Richard Baynes explores the debate around deer culling in the Highlands of Scotland.  Read more at https://theferret.scot/deer-cull-environmentalists-landowners/This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacyAdBarker - ...

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How badly has Scotland’s seabed been damaged, and should it be protected? Our podcast reporter, Richard Baynes, went to sea to find out for himself. The accompanying story is here ...

The Scottish Land Fund, set up to help community buyouts in the wake of the land reform movement, has become mainly a buildings fund and is heavily skewed towards a ...