Politics
Inside the world of the spads
26 May 2015Nick Garbutt Politics
Earlier this month the Office of First Minister deputy First Minister released information that it was ordered to by the Information Commissioner revealing the salaries paid to the special advisors working for the First Minister.
The Apathy Party sweeps the board again
26 May 2015Nick Garbutt Politics
Now that the dust has settled on the General Election and the victory champagne has gone flat, Scope looks at the section of the electorate nobody is talking about: the people who did not vote.
How American non profits are getting politicians to sit up and notice
13 May 2015Nick Garbutt Sector Issues, Politics
As cuts deepen should the sector lie down and take it, disappear into silos, with everyone fighting everyone else for scraps, or is there a better way?
Has the Wells affair scuppered a Westminster deal for the DUP?
28 Apr 2015Nick Garbutt Politics, Equality
Scope analyses the fall-out from the Wells affair and concludes we should not be writing off the DUP just yet.
It's time to move on from the stale politics of peace
28 Apr 2015Guest Author Peace Process, Politics
Independent MLA John McCallister calls for a realignment of politics in Northern Ireland and has some harsh words for the Make it Work campaign.
Buy a plastic bag and save the environment: how not to make cuts
27 Apr 2015Nick Garbutt CutsWatchNI, Environment, Politics
Scope analyses the bizarre recent conduct of the Department of the Environment and suggests this is a text book example of how not to implement cuts.
Eat your heart out Justin Bieber you''ll never out-twitter Ó Muilleoir
30 Mar 2015Nick Garbutt Politics, Social Media
Scope stops off in South Belfast to examine politicians on social media and stumbles across the politician who out-tweets Obama.
The irony of calling quotas patronising
25 Mar 2015Guest Author Politics, Equality
This month Scope has chosen to discuss gender quotas in politics. Here political activist - and feminist - Adrianne Peltz outlines why many of the standard objections are objectionable.
The need for new politics in NI
23 Mar 2015Ryan Miller Politics
This month Belfast hosted Imagine! - a "festival of ideas and politics". Scope speaks to director Peter O'Neill about why he thinks it was important and his hopes for making it an annual event.
Gender quotas? Do me a favour - politicians are all the same anyway
23 Mar 2015Guest Author Politics, Equality
Political commentator Alex Kane explains why quotas for female politicians will never get his vote.
