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Hi ,
Donald Trump's unilateral tariffs, which he announced in early April, have been blocked by a US federal court.
The ruling found that an emergency law put in place by the White House did not mean the president could impose tariffs on nearly every country.
Some might say that the time to block the unilateral move would have been about a month ago , but that's none of our business.
At The Ferret, our perfectly reasonable £5 per month tariff gets you access to all our stories, and you get a chance to shape how we do our journalism in the future.
Definitely a better deal, with limited economic consequences. |
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Yours,
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Story of the week |
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An in-depth look at a Ferret investigation |
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Five freshwater lochs in the Highlands and Islands have been damaged by pollution from fish farms, according to a long-term scientific study by University College London.
The study concludes that faecal waste and uneaten food dropped into the lochs from over 50 salmon and trout cages since the 1980s and 1990s is “highly likely” to have altered the water quality, risking algal blooms and posing dangers to wildlife.
Researchers insisted they had to keep the identities of the lochs secret in order to protect “the confidentiality of commercial information”. One of the funders of the study was the Norwegian salmon farming multinational, Mowi, previously known as Marine Harvest. |
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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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Rise in nuclear incidents that could leak radioactivity
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There have been 12 nuclear incidents that could have leaked radioactivity at the Faslane naval base since 2023, The Ferret can reveal. |
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We investigated Who Runs Scotland. Here’s what we found out.
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Over the last month, we have spotlighted the people, organisations and businesses that wield hidden power across Scotland. |
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Question of the week |
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Have you been put off Scottish waters due to pollution fears?
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Best of the rest |
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Investigations we've enjoyed from around the world |
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Why does Switzerland have more nuclear bunkers than any other country?
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Switzerland has more than 370,000 nuclear bunkers – enough to shelter every member of the population. But if the worst should happen, would they actually work? (Guardian) |
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Ukraine: a chocolatier at war
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Oleksiy Kolchanov founded the bean-to-bar chocolate company Meetty in Ukraine in 2013. He’s still making chocolate, but now he’s defending his country too. (Observer) |
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How Russia’s fake spirituality became a key weapon in the Kremlin’s disinformation toolbox
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Under Putin, Christianity has been turned into a political tool to spread false narratives about the war in Ukraine. (Byline Times) |
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