Ferret Underground: Greenwashing

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Next week at The Ferret we release the latest episode of our special podcast series - Sheku: The Inquiry - which looks at the public probe into the death of Sheku Bayoh in 2015.

In this new episode we examine the evidence from Sheku's post-mortem, but find even that is open to disagreement and interpretation.

The series is presented by Ferret journalist Karin Goodwin and Tomiwa Folorunso, and produced by Halina Rifai.

There have been five episodes released so far, and we are the only podcast tracking the evidence as the inquiry continues. Check out our previous episodes here, and look out on Monday 28th August for episode six.

“The things I’ve seen…” Laura – script gripped in one hand, her other on her hip – delivers her line with convincing knowingness.

That her performance has such authority should be no surprise. It’s drama night at Simon Community Scotland’s We See You project, and she and other participants taking part in this rehearsed reading of their play, about the homeless hotel system in the city, have got plenty of experience to draw on.

This seven-day-a week, out-of-hours Simon Community service launched last summer, aimed at keeping homeless people using drugs and based in Glasgow’s city centre, safe from harm.

Why do women footballers still face so much abuse online?

As the World Cup reached its climax last weekend, For Fact’s Sake podcast looked at the abuse that some women footballers face online.

We spoke to Dr Beth Fielding-Lloyd from Sheffield Hallam University, an expert on women’s sport and its representations in media.

She explained how abuse suffered by women footballers differs from men, how certain ‘trigger’ events can lead to misogynistic pile-ons, and why myths and misinformation about women’s sport stoke the hateful abuse that athletes and pundits face.