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A Week Is A Long Time - UK Politics Quiz 28 September 2017
Here is the fourth in our new weekly term-time quiz for A Level Politics students. Ten questions on UK political news - give them a go!
At Last - A Statue of a Woman in Parliament Square
It has taken too long, but at last there is to be a statue of a famous woman from our political history in Parliament Square.
A Week Is A Long Time - UK Politics Quiz 20 September 2017
Here is the third in our new weekly term-time quiz for A Level Politics students. Ten questions on UK political news - give them a go!
A Week Is A Long Time - Global Politics Quiz - 13 September 2017
Here is the first Global Politics quiz of the 2017/18 academic year. How many of these questions can you get correct?
A Week Is A Long Time - UK Politics Quiz 14 September 2017
Here is the second in our new weekly term-time quiz for A Level Politics students. Ten questions on UK political news - give them a go!
A Week is a Long Time - US Politics Quiz 14 September 2017
Here is the first in a new series of regular quizzes on US politics. Give it a go!
RIP Kate Millett
Many excellent tributes to Kate Millett who sadly passed away yesterday. Here are some links, all of which are useful for teachers & students reading about Kate as part of the studies of feminism.
A Week Is A Long Time - UK Politics Quiz 8 Sept 2017
Here is the first in a new weekly term-time quiz for A Level Politics students. Ten questions on UK political news - can you get off to a flying start with 10/10?
Pacifist Japan Tested by North Korea
A useful context piece here for students taking the global politics option. Many may not be aware that Japan's constitution states that it is a pacifist country. However, North Korea's recent...
Decoding North Korea's Nuclear Intentions
Some interesting analysis here from a former CIA expert on North Korea. Why does North Korea really want to complete its nuclear weapons programme? She argues the main reason is "survival".
Communicating rather than governing
Trump’s presidency is much more about communicating with his supporters than actually governing according to this article in Vanity Fair. Can much the same be said about Theresa May?
Prospect of a new UK political party
Can he be serious? Janan Ganesh from the Financial Times has been thinking about the prospect of a new political party emerging from the uncertainties and divisions of the Brexit shenanigans.
Political disengagement in the UK
Which groups in the UK are politically disengaged and why? This House of Commons Research Briefing provides plenty of background evidence.
Bognador's Four Reasons for Expecting a Second Referendum
Professor Vernon Bognador argues in this piece in the Guardian that the probability of a second referendum on the terms of a post-Brexit agreement grows stronger by the day.
How Remain voters switched in the 2017 General Election
Data from the British Election Study is reported here in this article from Ed Fieldhouse and Chris Prosser at the University of Manchester.
Did Cambridge Analytica play a role in the EU referendum?
BBC Newsnight investigates whether the EU referendum was highjacked by data analytics company Cambridge Analytica.
Record number of female MPs in 2017
A record number of women MPs were elected at the 2017 UK General Election but how many women stood, and were they in winnable seats? This briefing blog from the UK House of Commons Library gives...
Voter Turnout in Elections
Here is a handy graphic to use in lessons on elections. The United Kingdom had a turnout of 68.7 percent in the May 2017 general election, marginally higher than France when Macron was elected...
5 Key Charts from the 2015 General Election
As news breaks of the 2017 General Election on 8th June, here are five key charts from the 2015 election that might be useful as we head into yet another campaign.
Tam Dalyell passes away
A Parliamentarian from a different generation perhaps most famous for asking the West Lothian Question.