Recommended podcast title
I've posted before about the virtues of podcasts, here's one I have really got into
The break of Britain?
Heads up about an ITV documentary on the independence of the four nations of the UK?
Here's this week's UK politics news quiz.
Another example of Tory backbench dissent
This time it's lockdown sceptics and the PM's four step plan
Recommended read
Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics, by Peter Geoghegan
A Week is a Long Time in Politics - UK Politics quiz 22 February 2021
A big welcome back to this new half term. Here's this week's UK politics news quiz.
Recommended politics podcasts
A handful have been chosen in this weekend's newspaper
Useful video clips on Labour leader
Good background if you are considering the role of party leader (voting behaviour)
Keir Starmer and election success
Party leaders have an important influence on voting intentions
Interesting article (on the party politics of?) electoral systems
Not something you read every day, I get it
More evidence that select committees are the engine rooms of our legislature
Another example of legislative scrutiny of the executive
A Week is a Long Time in Politics - UK Politics quiz 15 February 2021
For anyone who is looking for some half term fun, here's our weekly news quiz on UK politics. Good luck!
Recommended viewing: latest Trump doc
Excellent insight into the foreign policy making process
Weakness of Parliament?
The ten year sentence for breaking covid rules
Another good example of the use of Opposition Days
How the legislature can use this mechanism for the purposes of executive scrutiny - with hat tip to one of my Year 12s
Jeremy Hunt as chair of the health select committee
Another good example of how Parliament checks the executive
A Week is a Long Time in Politics - UK Politics Quiz 08 February 2021
Here's this week's UK politics news quiz.
Heavily recommended podcast on the Kennedys
For anyone with an interest in American Politics and/or modern history (on Spotify)