Claim John Swinney stayed at Peter Mandelson's residence is Mostly True
The first minister has been criticised online for staying with Mandelson on a trip to the US last year. We looked at the truth behind the claims.
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Scotland’s prisoner transport provider is linked to Trump’s ICE migrant hunters
Scotland’s prison transport operator has been condemned for performance failures. It’s co-owned by a US corporation supplying bounty hunters for Donald Trump’s mass deportation initiative.
Fact check: Claims on the costs of Trump’s visit, cheating at golf, and trillion dollar trade deals
Donald Trump has flown back to the US after his whirlwind visit to Scotland. During his four-day trip, the US
Revealed: Trump course caused more damage to dunes last year
Donald Trump’s controversial golf course in Aberdeenshire broke environmental rules last year by again causing damage to sand dunes.
Author of slogan cited by white supremacist murderers invited to UK by far right party
The man behind a conspiracy theory cited by white supremacists and mass murderers has been booked as a conference speaker
Alarm over new US military ‘presence’ in Scotland
The United States government has established its first military site in Scotland since the 1990s, prompting fears of a “catastrophic”
For Fact’s Sake podcast: Who is ‘Argentina’s Donald Trump’?
Populist leaders are gaining prominence across the globe, and Argentina is no different. Javier Milei, a self-described “anarcho-capitalist” who gained
‘Rotten to the core’: £300m of student housing linked to tax havens
Student accommodation buildings in Scottish cities collectively worth over £300m are directly owned by firms registered in offshore tax havens,
Coul Links developer donated to climate denial group
A billionaire bidding to build an “environmentally friendly” Highland golf course on protected sand dunes has been branded a “Trumpian
Controversial think tanks host over 40 events at Tory conference
Influential think tanks which do not reveal their donors and blamed as the “driving force” behind the UK’s current
Glasgow University criticised for investing in firm linked to Trump’s ‘inhumane’ immigration sector
Students have called on the University of Glasgow to divest from a company linked to Donald Trump’s US immigration
Trump lawyers ‘flood of complaints’ to stop golf course losing conservation status
Lawyers for Donald Trump’s Aberdeenshire golf course bombarded the Scottish Government’s wildlife watchdog with demands and complaints in
UK Government urged to follow President Biden and end arms sales to Saudi Arabia
Politicians, human rights groups and charities have urged the UK Government to follow a shift in US foreign policy and