🔍 FACT CHECK: A claim that Labour handed £536m to foreign farmers while raising taxes on UK farmers has sparked controversy.
We looked into it and found this claim to be Mostly False. Here’s why 👇
https://theferret.scot/claim-labour-millions-foreign-farmers-mostly-false/
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From delays to controversies, The Ferret looked at what’s working — and what isn’t
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Marine protected areas in Scotland and Italy are meant to safeguard biodiversity, but are they delivering?
https://theferret.scot/scotland-italy-seas-marine-protection/
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Can Scotland and Italy’s marine protected areas stand up to industrial pressures and climate change? We looked at the challenges facing our seas
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Campaigners and MSPs said the golf club’s offshore ownership exemplified the need for the government to press overseas territories for transparency measures
https://theferret.scot/secret-owners-loch-lomond-golf-club/
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This project was carried out in partnership with IrpiMedia and supported by Journalismfund Europe.
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🔵 NEW: Are Scotland and Italy truly protecting their seas? The Ferret took a closer look at marine protections, challenges, and efforts to safeguard vital ecosystems.
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The revelations prompted renewed calls from campaigners for the UK Government to force British overseas territories like the Caymans to introduce a public register of the beneficial owners behind companies incorporated there
https://theferret.scot/secret-owners-loch-lomond-golf-club/
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"Financial transparency would guarantee that, at a time when the UK is struggling, the Treasury’s coffers are as full as possible"
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As the club is ultimately owned and operated by a firm incorporated in the Cayman Islands, the names of its true owners are allowed to stay hidden due to secrecy provisions in the Caribbean tax haven.
But the once-secret shareholders of years past are named in leaked documents. They include Scottish Labour and the Scottish Liberal Democrats’ biggest donor ahead of the last general election, top footballers and senior bankers.
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The 660-acre private Loch Lomond Golf Club hosted the Scottish Open and boasts a Georgian mansion, a spa within a historic walled garden, and dramatic lochside views to Ben Lomond.
But the club is open only to members who can join on a strict invite-only policy, and the entry fees – estimated at well over £100,000 today – mean the luxury is open only to a wealthy few.
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🔴 NEW: Top political donors, a Labour lord and Scottish football hero Ally McCoist have been among secret owners of a tax haven firm behind an elite Scottish golf club.
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Critics warned that though many of the petitions posed as “local issues” they were in fact being used to garner support for CitizenGO’s wider agenda
https://theferret.scot/global-anti-woke-petition-campaigns-glasgow-statues/
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Global ‘anti-woke’ petition site campaigns to keep Glasgow statues and Stornoway’s Tesco closed on Sundays
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Liz Thomson, Scotland advocacy manager for Amnesty UK, said that it was time to “lift the veil on groups who seek to divide and conquer, and remind people that democracy itself is at risk, as well as the wonderful diverse space that Scotland is”
https://theferret.scot/global-anti-woke-petition-campaigns-glasgow-statues/
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Across the UK, farmers are protesting tax changes they say threaten their livelihoods. But questions are being raised about groups using these protests to push conspiracies and misinformation
https://theferret.scot/are-conspiracy-groups-hijack-farmers-protests/
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Farmers across the UK are protesting inheritance tax reforms. But concerns are mounting over groups using the protests to amplify conspiracy theories about the climate and more
https://theferret.scot/are-conspiracy-groups-hijack-farmers-protests/
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Are conspiracy groups trying to hijack farmers’ protests?
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With protests planned across Scotland, UK farmers are voicing anger at tax changes. But there are concerns some groups are using the protests to fuel conspiracies about net-zero and more.
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