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In the latest in our series on abortion Scope examines the impending court case which could force the Assembly's hand on reform. 

Just imagine the uproar if the education department withdrew a school’s funding two months before the  end of term leaving A Level and GSCE students without teachers, and the rest of the pupils scrambling for places elsewhere. 

Professor Peter McBride chief executive of the Northern Ireland Association for Mental Health (Niamh)  argues the Third Sector must act now to stave off a mental health crisis amongst employees following cuts. 

Scope meets Paul Mullan, head of the Heritage Lottery Fund in Northern Ireland. 

Scope analyses the fall-out from the Wells affair and concludes we should not be writing off the DUP just yet.

Independent MLA John McCallister calls for a realignment of politics in Northern Ireland and has some harsh words for the Make it Work campaign. 

David Smyth of the Evangelical Alliance, writing exclusively for Scope, challenges those currently calling for changes to Northern Ireland's abortion law

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. 

For most people the word slavery will evoke the distant and disconnected past. But for some people it is a reality in the here and now.

Presuming the near-inevitable happens and Welfare Reform (eventually) passes the Assembly, does Stormont need a dedicated committee for oversight? Scope speaks exclusively with Michael McMahon MSP, who convenes just such a group in Holyrood.

Grainne Teggart, Northern Ireland campaigner for Amnesty Interntional and head of its My Body My Rights campaign, writes for Scope to say that local abortion laws lack decency in the way they treat women in distress.

Scope examines the landmark European case which ruled that the unborn do not have a right to life 

Abortion is amongst the most divisive issues in our tumultuous society. In the first of a series of pieces looking at this issue as it comes to a time of great flux, Scope outlines where we are and how we got there.

Scope stops off in South Belfast to examine politicians on social media and stumbles across the politician who out-tweets Obama.  

Scope cartoonist Patrick Sanders sums up that there is to be said about the devastating cuts to NIACRO and the impact on re-settling offenders. 

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.

We could all end up paying a very high price for cuts to Early Years services, Scope explores the implications.

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.

Political commentator Alex Kane explains why quotas for female politicians will never get his vote.

Tom Collins who had oversight of the Belfast Festival at Queens for 11 years explains why he believes it cannot be saved.