Claim 'abortion to birth' is now legal in the UK is Mostly False

Changes to abortion law in England and Wales have been misrepresented on social media.

Alastair Brian Mar 26, 2026

Scotland's disappearing golf courses

Climate change is causing rising sea levels and coastal erosion and 109 Scottish golf courses are at risk. We examined the issue as part of Green drive: Golf and the environmental crisis – a special Ferret series on golf and the environment.

Billy Briggs, Angela Catlin Mar 22, 2026

Politics and power

Reform UK knew its candidates had supported far right influencers, spread Covid-19 conspiracies, and made ableist slurs. The party selected them again.

The Ferret exposed the extreme views of Reform UK’s Scotland’s candidates before Nigel Farage promised to improve his party’s “poor” vetting processes, but many of them have been re-selected to fight the Holyrood election.

Jamie Mann, Billy Briggs Mar 20, 2026

Urban Big Data Centre

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Society

Poor schools four times more likely than private schools to have Higher passes changed to fail

Scotland’s poorest schools were four times more likely than private schools to have passing Higher grades changed to a

James McEnaney Oct 18, 2020