First Past The Post - New Edition (October 2008)

The first edition of First Past The Post for the 2008/9 academic year has just been published…

Here are the articles in the latest edition:

The Iain Davis case (Neil MacNaughton)
What this recent case tells us about the judiciary and Parliament.

IDS and poverty (Andrew Lawrence)
Does Iain Duncan Smith have the answer to our social problems?

Rags to Riches? (Julie Smith)
The new political year may well present Gordon Brown with one last chance to reverse his government’s ailing fortunes.

The Clegg effect? (Andrew Lawrence)
Less tax, more police: is this really the Liberal Democrats?

A UK Bill of Rights? (Mike McCartney)
During the summer the Joint Committee on Human Rights examined the case for a UK Bill of Rights.

US Elections preview (Mike McCartney)
A look ahead to some of the factors that may determine the outcome of this year’s presidential contest between John McCain and Barack Obama.

GB: where did it all go wrong? (Stuart Baker)
Gordon Brown gave the speech of his life in Manchester recently. But was it too little, too late?

A network licence to FPTP is just £50 per institution, giving access to over 200 articles suitable for A Level Politics courses.

Click here to view a sample article from the new edition