Unless you’ve been on another planet, you know that ‘double jobbing’ – the practice of politicians holding on to two jobs at once – is big news in the UK and Northern Ireland.  We’ve been told that double jobbing is ‘on borrowed time’ as far as NI is concerned.  This is after threats of pay [...]

A friend of mine and I had a discussion recently on the miracle of multi-tasking. It started off with some droll comment about the pop-psych notion that women are better at it than men. Then we got onto larger questions. Is this a myth or a fact? Are human beings truly capable of it at [...]