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Pressure group tactics spectacularly backfiring
Does M25 protestor Liam Norton walking off morning breakfast show GMB strengthen or damage the case of Insulate Britain - includes video
A Week is a Long Time in Politics - UK Politics quiz 20 September 2021
It has been a week of doing the hokey cokey in Boris Johnson's Cabinet so the re-shuffle dominates the news stories. Who was the last female Foreign Secretary before Liz Truss? Which remit has NOT...
Johnson's cabinet reshuffle: context and research exercise
You'd have to have been sleeping in a cave not to have heard about the game of musical chairs at the heart of government.
Another week, another example of direct action
Insulate Britain protested by blocking the M25. Why?
Government to push forward with more devolution
The Local Government Minister announced plans in an interview with the FT this week
A Week is a Long Time in Politics - UK Politics quiz 13 September 2021
Here's this week's UK politics news quiz. Who was accused of attending a meeting without any government officials present? Which is the 'quietest' day in the Commons? Which minister said that she...
Re-evaluating success of Extinction Rebellion (XR)
Interesting article on XR in the paper
A Week is a Long Time in Politics - UK Politics quiz 06 September 2021
Our weekly UK politics news quiz is back! A warm welcome to regular and new users of the quiz. We have 10 multi-choice questions based upon news stories from the last 7 days. The SNP have gone into...
Friday fun: politicians dancing (or not!)
You may want to look away...
Devolution in the UK: success or failure?
A couple of examples from the same newspaper this week to add to a typical A Level question
Questioning the Effectiveness of the UK Parliament
His does the Afghanistan debate (August 2021) fit into this narrative?
Trump for 2024?
And what does this say about the American electoral process?
What direction lies ahead for civil liberties?
Article by Owen Jones today should help stimulate debate when studying topic for A Level
Is Boris Johnson a Thatcherite?
Great article in the paper today offering a revisionist view of Thatcherism
You may not agree with the thrust of the writer's arguments, but some good stuff in here
A couple of stories from the papers are likely to heap pressure on the PM
Update on federal-state relations in the Biden era
Great article in today's paper about how Republican held states are ploughing a furrow that deviates from the objectives of the POTUS
An editorial in The Guardian is another reminder of the fact that the presidentialisation of the office of PM is a double edged sword