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Hi ,
This week marks ten years since we published our first article at The Ferret!
We asked one of our founders, Rob Edwards, to write about why we started, what we've done and what we hope will come next. Here's a snippet:
"Ten years ago a small group of us sat round my kitchen table in Edinburgh eating carrot sticks and pizza. We had an idea, and we were trying to work out how to make it a reality.
"The idea was to create something that would help stem the decline in investigative journalism. A new online publication that would hold power to account, whoever wields it, without fear or favour, underpinned by an enduring belief in truth, honesty and transparency.
"Those were the heady days in the wake of the Scottish independence referendum in 2014, and we were full of optimism. I burnt the pizza, while the talented and experienced journalists round the table gradually gave birth to The Ferret."
You can read the full piece below, and stay tuned for more celebrations of our tenth birthday later in the year! |
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Yours,
Ali |
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Story of the week |
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An in-depth look at a Ferret investigation |
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Energy giant SSE may keep Scotland’s dirtiest power station open until 2040 – ten years longer than planned – which critics fear could “blow an enormous hole” in the Scottish Government’s climate strategy.
The company owns the Peterhead gas-fired power station in the north east which has been producing electricity since 1982.
It is the largest remaining fossil fuel power station in Scotland and has repeatedly been the country’s biggest polluter, releasing more than one million tonnes of climate-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) in an average year. That is about the same as 250,000 cars. |
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What did we dig up this week? |
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A round up of our investigations in the last seven days |
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Palestine Action: Why has the UK proscribed the group?
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MPs have voted to ban activist group Palestine Action, after members broke into a UK military base in Oxfordshire last month and damaged planes. |
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The Ferret: pizza, optimism and truth
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The story of how we started The Ferret, and what we've achieved over the past ten years of investigating. |
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Question of the week |
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Should the UK Government have banned Palestine Action
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Best of the rest |
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Investigations we've enjoyed from around the world |
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Tony Blair thinktank worked with project developing ‘Trump Riviera’ Gaza plan
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Staff at former UK PM’s institute took part in calls as proposal led by US consulting firm and Israeli business people evolved. (Guardian) |
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Scammed by your neighbour's company: How UK homes are fronts for global scam network
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A sprawling fraud operation, a Dubai-based millionaire – and a £4bn company looking the other way. (ITV News/TBIJ) |
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Pigeon shoots and hitmen: New leads in a Texas oilman's cold case
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The case is one of an overwhelming number of unsolved homicides in the US. There have been more than 346,000 cold cases of homicide between 1965 and 2023. (Bellingcat) |
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