A Week is a Long Time in Politics - UK Politics quiz 10 January 2022
Welcome back! Here's our first UK politics news quiz of 2022. Qhat prompted the #FreeMichaelGove hastag to trend? What surprise healthcare policy announcement was made by the Labour Party? An...
Academic research puts new spin on First Past The Post debate
And it means I have been teaching it wrong
UK Issues: Health Care
Why don't we talk about these more? Subject for a Politics Society talk?
Is it the end of "the end of history"?
Fascinating article in the i that suggests that Francis Fukuyama's well worn thesis is now highly questionable
Whither the Human Rights Act?
Dominic Raab, as Justice Secretary, has unveiled new and controversial plans
Is the party over?
Is the party that never was the 'event' that finally blows the current PM off course?
Festive Quiz Pack 2021 for A-Level Politics
Here are two subject-specific PowerPoint-based quizzes to use in the last few days of a challenging term! Each quiz uses a set of our ever-popular livestream activities all packaged up in a festive...
Is Britain drifting towards some sort of Orwellian dystopia?
So says Camilla Cavendish in a brilliant article in the Financial Times - as part of the FT For Schools programme, you should be able to access this
Voting behaviour, the young and social media
An interesting feature in today's paper about the significance of different platforms and how the youth vote works
US politics is more polarised than ever
One might think that post Trump the opposite would be true. Not according to Jonathan Friedland.
A Week is a Long Time in Politics - UK Politics quiz 06 December 2021
Here's this week's UK politics news quiz. Which minister is Lisa Nandy now shadowing? Why is Lindsay Hoyle calling in the police? What type of second job has been given up by three Conservative...
Politics recommend reads 2021
Should be of interest to all Politics students, but those looking at UCAS 2022 might need to pay closer attention?
How what one of the framers of the constitution called the least dangerous branch of government can, in fact, exercise real political power
PM power and Boris Johnson - essay preparation exercise
Great article recently in the Guardian that I am planning to use with my for my Oxbridge Politics group. Also useful, I think, as essay prep
A Week is a Long Time in Politics - UK Politics quiz 29 November 2021
Here's this week's UK politics news quiz. Which MP was told that she should not bring her children into the Westminster debating chambers? Which cabinet minister was 'disinvited' to a European...
Are universities engines of social mobility?
The evidence might surprise you
Questions about Boris Johnson's leadership (and Peppa Pig) - includes video
An editorial in today's Evening Standard was quite stinging about the PM
A Week is a Long Time in Politics - UK Politics quiz 22 November 2021
Here's this week's UK politics news quiz. Who has highjacked social media according to Nadine Norries? What voting reform will impact unfairly on disadvantaged groups? A formal agreement has been...
Kamala Harris becomes first female President of the United States
For 85 minutes