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Government plans to appoint an independent watchdog to monitor how facial recognition, fingerprints and genetic information are used in Scotland have been criticised by campaigners. For more than two years,...

by EärendilTweet Follow @Butterfly_Reb During the Age of Reason Edinburgh was known as “the Athens of the North.” Scottish Enlightenment thinkers pioneered a lasting legacy of global political thought; from...

by PaulineAndBeansTweet Follow @Butterfly_Reb Pauline is a young woman who was put on Universal Credit (UC) in January 2017. Before this she was a self-employed personal trainer working for a...

Scottish ministers and councils have come under fire after official figures revealed that Scotland recycled less household waste than England, Wales or Northern Ireland. The waste industry and environmental groups...

A trust funding the Scottish Conservatives with so-called “dark money” has revealed it has assets of £2.35 million, following an investigation by The Ferret. In a statement given to the...

A leading Holyrood lobbyist has been criticised after a Ferret investigation revealed he is also on the board of a secretive “dark money” trust that funds the Scottish Conservatives. Peter...

A leading Scottish judge has found the Home Office guilty of making a serious blunder by unlawfully returning an Ethiopian asylum seeker fleeing persecution and made a “groundbreaking” ruling that...

The “prejudiced” views of a chaplain who hears confessions from students have been challenged after a leading politician questioned his suitability for the role at a Scottish university. Green MSP...

The oil multinational, Shell, has apologised after being fined £40,000 for breaching the rules on reporting climate pollution at its Mossmorran petrochemical plant in Fife. The fine was imposed by...