Insight and latest updates from our team
Women and dealing with the past
By ScopeNI 17 Sep 2015 Ryan Miller
A report released this week says we need to better provide for female victims in order to address the legacy of conflict. Scope looks at its suggestions.
Behind the scenes at Sunday Sequence
By ScopeNI 11 Sep 2015 Nick Garbutt
Scope meets Seamus Boyd, the driving force behind Radio Ulster’s flagship Sunday Sequence show.
Can slavery be defeated?
By ScopeNI 10 Sep 2015 Ryan Miller
Forced labour remains a global scourge. Scope went along to a Law Centre NI conference and spoke with Kevin Hyland, UK Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner and former top cop at the Met, about what can be done.
Refugees, migrants and Ireland
By ScopeNI 4 Sep 2015 Nick Garbutt
Scope editor Nick Garbutt reflects on the refugee crisis and looks back at Ireland's history of migration
Every Lidl helps: helping charities can be super marketing for businesses
By ScopeNI 2 Sep 2015 Ryan Miller
Following the announcement of a new Lidl scheme to fund community groups across Northern Ireland, Scope asks whether partnerships between the voluntary and private sectors are a world of untapped potential.
Sector faces massive job losses, survey claims
By ScopeNI 28 Aug 2015 Nick Garbutt
Scope reports on the latest threat to community and voluntary sector funding
Did the IRA go away?
By ScopeNI 27 Aug 2015 Nick Garbutt
Are there any politicians and commentators who seriously did not know that the IRA still existed?
Time to make the most of the welfare crisis
By ScopeNI 27 Aug 2015 Ryan Miller
Even if an under-pressure Iain Duncan Smith is forced from the cabinet his recent policies are set to run and run, writes Ian James Parsley. They have popular support and this is unlikely to change.
Shroud education: sharing and the future
By ScopeNI 20 Aug 2015 Ryan Miller
Shared Education is the big new thing for helping society come together and improving schooling. But what are we supposed to expect?
Will the BBC get blown away by the gathering storm?
By ScopeNI 19 Aug 2015 Nick Garbutt
Just how serious is the threat to the BBC posed by the Westminster government and should we be worried about it?
Whatever happened to Heenan Anderson?
By ScopeNI 14 Aug 2015 Nick Garbutt
Whatever happened to the Heenan-Anderson Commission?
NI's rejection of marriage equality 'a breach of religious rights'
By ScopeNI 13 Aug 2015 Ryan Miller
Local failure to bring forth marriage equality legislation matching the rest of the UK is set to be challenged in the High Court this autumn, on the basis that it is an infringement of the right to freely practice religion.
Why we need to know the truth about Kincora
By ScopeNI 12 Aug 2015 Nick Garbutt
Why is Secretary of State Theresa Villiers so determined to ensure that allegations about child abuse at Kincora Boys Home in Belfast does not form part of the UK investigation?
Shifting sands: NI's political landscape on marriage equality is changing
By ScopeNI 6 Aug 2015 Ryan Miller
Last week Scope highlighted the view that marriage equality in Northern Ireland is "inevitable" - are changes in the past week a sign of this inevitability in action?
Should we have the right to die on our own terms?
By ScopeNI 5 Aug 2015 Ryan Miller
Debate about right to die - and the right to help our loved ones do so, if they wish - is growing in the UK. Scope looks at a deceptively simple point of principle and its complex fine details.
Crisis Fund: can a little go a very long way?
By ScopeNI 31 Jul 2015 Ryan Miller
Earlier this year OFMdFM released a small amount of funds to help vulnerable ethnic-minority migrants in crisis. Scope speaks with fund administrators the Red Cross about its success.
The inevitable equality - why NI will embrace same-sex marriage
By ScopeNI 29 Jul 2015 Ryan Miller
A key figure in the successful marriage equality campaign in the Republic of Ireland says Northern Ireland will move into line with the rest of the UK and the Republic of Ireland.
Spooky action at an unknown distance - GCHQ and Amnesty International
By ScopeNI 27 Jul 2015 Ryan Miller
The security services exist to protect us as citizens and allow us to live in freedom. Scope speaks with spying victims Amnesty International about whether spying on human rights organisations can fulfil that purpose.
A complex solution to a simple problem
By ScopeNI 24 Jul 2015 Nick Garbutt
Analysis: Colin Harper of the Belfast Law Centre on the Mental Capacity Bill
The other Villiers in Ireland: famine, internment, rebellion
By ScopeNI 21 Jul 2015 Nick Garbutt
Theresa Villiers is not the first of her family to hold high office in Ireland.
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