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The economy and swing states in race for White House 2024
Great video if you study Economics and are interested in American Politics
Can Kamala capture the White House?
Does the VP has what it takes in key swing states?
Labour and electoral reform: Turkeys at Christmas
Great article in the Guardian about the prospects of the new government ditching first past the post
Has the time come Kamala to step up?
Her role as veep might well turn out to be unusually important
Trump's VP pick - video clip and questions
A great deal of attention has turned to who Donald Trump's running mate will be
Starmer's new Cabinet
A nice article with an early insight into the PM/Cabinet topic area
UK Politics Annual Quiz | 2023 - 2024
Here's a quick quiz for your remaining students on events that have taken place in the UK politics world since the academic year started in September 2023. The quiz includes 10 questions - how many...
GE24 voting behaviour: the rise of the independents
Further evidence of the fragmentation of the two party system
GE24: what would happen under a PR based system?
Great intro for understanding electoral systems
GE24: the nation changes its government
Some highlights and analysis of a momentous night
Election night 24: the nation decides
A couple of explainers on the mechanics and a preview of the outcome
GE24: the Farage effect
Nice clip from the Radio Times on how the Tories could be affected by the Reform Party
GE24: ethnicity and voting behaviour
Useful little clip from Sky News on this aspect of psephology
GE24: where do young voters stand?
Quite a good article and news clip to use as classroom stimulus on voting behaviour for this demographic
More on opinion polls. But should there be any more?
One writer consider an array of the latest polls, and another writes that he's had enough of them
GE24: more on social media
A nice little clip from Sky News with loads of facts and figures on the topic
GE24: the impact of new media
The Guardian asks in a fascinating article if this will be the first post-mainstream media eletion
Were you up for Portillo redux?
Will we see a repeat of that famous night in at GE97 when a host of big hitters lost their seats?
GE24: new media and voting behaviour
Reform- and the TikTok effect, and online spending