Public Servant

  With a fiscal deficit this year alone of £175bn, the challenge of how to meet public sector pension liabilities exceeding £1trn is rapidly jumping up the political priorities.   The new context was dramatically illustrated in David Cameron’s high profile ‘hairshirt’ speech, in which he proposed cutting the number of MPs. He also argued […]

Too many schools for too few pupils.  Paul Gosling considers what reform might mean for Northern Ireland’s education system – and for its divided society.