@billybriggs

Investigative journalist | Founding director and co-editor @ferretscot | Photos © Angela Catlin |

[@billybriggs @billybriggs]

New academic book from Routledge called Journalism, Power and Investigation documents award winning international coverage by @FerretScot in Iraq and Turkey. https://t.co/UXovONg7z9

[The Ferret @FerretScot]

“There are going to be protests and there’s going to be trouble,” Grant Calder wrote on Facebook, adding that migrants would be “put out of houses and hotels”.

Our latest: https://t.co/3KMhbL3pTj

[The Ferret @FerretScot]

🔴NEW: A senior activist with Reform UK claimed to have prior knowledge that migrants in Northern Ireland would be targeted by rioters who set fire to family homes last week.

Find out more: https://t.co/3KMhbL3pTj

[Brendan Cox @MrBrendanCox]

10 years ago my wife, the mum of our kids & the MP for Batley&Spen was killed by a far right extremist.

At anniversaries I try to be optimistic about the future. But not this time. In the ten years since she was killed we have gone backwards & I fear our democracy is now at risk

[Andy Wightman @andywightman]

Jamie Mann and Petra Matijevic have examined all of the known offshore entities in the Land Register and checked whether they have made a declaration on who controls them in the RCI.

In results that are both shocking and unsurprisingly they found that two thirds (956) of the 1447 offshore entities that own Scottish land registered in the Land Register have failed to register a recorded person or any associates. 2/7 https://t.co/ljv7hlQ9PA

[Gary Walker @g4ryw4lker]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Loch Lomond 🔉 Sensational

[The Ferret @FerretScot]

🔴 NEW: Russian oligarchs, billionaires, foreign governments, international royalty, and banking giants are among those behind nearly 1,000 offshore entities who are illegally flouting the land control registry.

Our latest: https://t.co/5BiRRFdH9G

[ITV Football @itvfootball]

Packed into Boston school buses, the Tartan Army are stadium-bound 🚌🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@billybriggs @billybriggs]

@GrantCalder_92 Reform UK has details of our story btw.

[The Ferret @FerretScot]

After a near two-year FOI battle, The Ferret has forced the Scottish Government to release previously secret minutes from Angus Robertson's meeting with an Israeli diplomat.

Today we're publishing what they show and the documents themselves 👉 https://t.co/a1wVYCuMih

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

'It's all they're talking about': Scotland gripped by World Cup fever https://t.co/tDNVV0nU5C

[The Ferret @FerretScot]

🔴NEW: The potential to bring “Israel’s world-leading technology” into NHS Scotland was discussed at Angus Robertson’s controversial meeting with an Israeli diplomat, documents released to The Ferret reveal.

Read the full story 👉 https://t.co/rsVX7L16Ht

[@billybriggs @billybriggs]

@GrantCalder_92 Ok, Grant. Thanks for your reply.

[The Ferret @FerretScot]

Following an investigation by The Ferret into the risks it poses for babies and toddlers, commissioner Nicola Killean said she was “seriously concerned” that children were still being placed in “dangerous environments"
https://t.co/Tjcr2jlbES

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: The family of the Belfast attempted beheading victim has called for calm

"We have many migrants who make a deeply valuable contribution to our country. We depend on them to make our country work. We do not want this terrible tragedy to be used to divide people"

[The Ferret @FerretScot]

Staniford has been opposing salmon farming for more than 20 years. A high-profile activist who covertly enters fish farms to film, he posts photos and videos of diseased and dying fish online
https://t.co/5tMqJP8x7Q

[The Ferret @FerretScot]

Don Staniford, who spotlights problems with Scotland’s farmed salmon industry, made the claim after receiving a new legal threat from Mowi, the world's largest producer of farmed Atlantic salmon
https://t.co/5tMqJP8x7Q

[The Ferret @FerretScot]

Mowi says Don Staniford's actions create health and safety risks for staff and could damage commercial interests. Staniford says legal threats are being used to deter scrutiny of the salmon industry
https://t.co/5tMqJP8x7Q

[The Ferret @FerretScot]

🔴 NEW: An anti-fish farm activist known as the “kayak vigilante” has accused a Norwegian multinational of trying to “privatise public waters” at ​salmon farms in the Highlands and islands.

Our latest: https://t.co/6f8gJeoZYs