Elections to the House of Lords? You must be kidding!
I kid you not loyal blog readers, yesterday saw an election take place to elect a member of the House Lords. Now I can assure you that I have not gone mad and live in a world whereby the House of...
Here's a fun lesson starter from the furtive imagination of regular contributor
Scott Thomas. This one is a variation on our Higher and Lower game that involves the
whole class. The class are...
Europe: Them or Us
Former BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson has returned to our screens to present a two-part series on the background to the European Union and Britain. It is well worth a watch, the first episode...
Electoral Commission decide which groups will lead the 2 sides of the EU membership referendum campaign
Yesterday the Electoral Commission (a public regulator of elections, referendums and party finances) made a decision on which group would lead each side of the campaign for June's EU membership...
Dennis Skinner asked to leave the Commons - is the notion of adversarial politics a positive thing for UK democracy
Firebrand Labour MP Dennis Skinner was asked to leave the House of Commons today after using unparliamentary language. He called the Prime Minister 'Dodgy Dave' in reference to his financial...
Jeremy Corbyn's Electoral Strategy
In a series of three articles Tony Vitofski explores Jeremy Corbyn's electoral strategy for winning in 2020. He examines Corbyn's claim that Labour can win by convincing the apathetic, the young...
The Government's Pro-EU pamphlet - what it shows about the complexities of UK political processes
According to news sources, the Government has spent over £9m on creating a booklet that explains the advantages of the UK's membership of the EU and the potential concerns that exist over a...
Get Ready for the Fireworks at a Contested GOP Convention
We could be in for one of the most interesting party conventions in history if, as seems possible, no GOP candidate reaches the required number of delegates.
Hostility towards Corbyn within the Labour Party
Given the recent resignation of Iain Duncan Smith and the apparent schism within the Conservative Party over the topic of European Union membership, it may be easy to forget that the Labour Party...
Revealed! The DfE Requirements for the New A Level Politics Specifications from Sept 2017
Would you like to know what will need to be in the new A Level Politics specifications for teaching from September 2017? The details have just been released.
The Presidential Election Game
Presidential candidates must win states to gain the electoral college votes in order to secure victory in elections, but with fifty states and the District of Columbia all having a say, can your...
Most of the recent opinion polls show Leave ahead of Remain - though it is early days of course. However, the bookmakers have Remain as the most likely result of the EU Referendum on 23 June.
The Battle for Garland: The Republicans Strike Back
Over the weekend, I blogged about the weekly address by President Obama, that encouraged Senate Republicans to uphold their constitutional duty and interview and confirm his choice of Merrick...
The Battle for Garland & Your Exam
In the weekly address to the American people, Barack Obama has used the time to ramp up the pressure on Republican Senators in order to get his nominee Merrick Garland confirmed by the Senate.
The Simpsons prediction of a Trump presidency
An article in the Guardian earlier this week alerted me to a number of events "predicted" by the Simpsons - and one such event was their prediction, years ago, of a Donald Trump presidency. Take a...
The global risk of a Trump presidency
The Economist Intelligence Unit regularly publishes a list of what it perceives to be the top threats to the global economy, and the most recent list makes for interesting reading, as a Trump...
Has IS committed genocide?
John Kerry, the US Secretary of State, has declared that the US believes Islamic State to have committed genocide against Christians, Shia Muslims and Yazidis. He also believes IS to be responsible...
In George Osborne's previous Budget (aka the Autumn Statement) back in November, he announced that so-called Short Money - the money given to opposition parties to help them conduct their affairs...
Inside Obama's White House - BBC documentary
The first episode in a short series on Obama's time in the White House was aired on Tuesday evening this week - this episode focuses on Obama's first 100 days in office, and shows the issues he...
Who is Obama's Supreme Court nominee?
President Obama today announced that he was nominating Merrick Garland as the justice to replace Antonin Scalia on the US Supreme Court. Garland is currently the chief judge on the Washington...