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The Scottish Government has been forced to withdraw all the emergency relaxations it made to freedom of information (FoI) law in April. Opposition parties on Holyrood’s Covid-19 committee combined to...

The man behind the Democratic Unionist Party’s mysterious £435,000 Brexit donation has found himself caught up in a scandal involving a bankrupted British businessman, a convicted American fraudster, Texan oil...

I suspect Sarah Smith's outrageous allegation on live BBC news bulletins last night that Nicola Sturgeon is "enjoying" the "opportunity" of the pandemic is destined to become as notorious as...

A new law requiring Scottish Government meetings to be minuted to prevent any “deliberate attempt” to evade freedom of information (FoI) rules has been recommended by MSPs. A cross-party Holyrood...

By Russell Bruce Boris’s star is falling in line with any regard for his governmental competence. Failing stars burn out and that might just be Boris Johnson’s fate even though...

Horse rescue charities in Scotland are facing unprecedented challenges due to the coronavirus crisis, with one sanctuary at “bursting point” and another facing closure due to a sharp fall in...

Farmers and landowners have legally killed around one hundred wild beavers in Tayside, The Ferret can reveal. Campaigners have condemned the killings as “shameful” and “sickening” and are demanding that...

Laws weakening freedom of information (FoI) rights in Scotland look set to be repealed after just a few weeks because opposition MSPs have united against them. In April the Scottish...

The UK government’s testing targets for Covid-19 have come under scrutiny ever since they were announced at the beginning of April. On 12 May, health secretary Matt Hancock...

One of the reasons I knew in advance there was a Wings poll on its way was that people who had been interviewed by Panelbase mentioned there were "a lot...