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...
How is a US Supreme Court justice appointed?
Here's another great and informative video from TestTubeNews, this time on the nature of the appointments process for US Supreme Court justices.
Four Budgets in one year - is this good or bad governance?
In the past 12 months, George Osborne has gone through 4 Budgets - March 2015 (as usual), a post-election budget, a comprehensive Autumn Statement (a concept introduced by Gordon Brown who sought...
Super Tuesday 3 - What to watch
Tonight (15th March) is what some networks are calling Super Tuesday 3, and is the next step in the race for the White House. Tonight Sanders and Clinton will do battle over 5 states to win 691...
Comparing the UK and US government revision resource
This revision resource is designed for A2 students of US politics, and provides a quick way of summarising the difference between UK government and US government
University rankings for studying politics
The Complete University Guide's league table for studying politics at university places Oxford highest, just pipping Cambridge to the post. Other universities in the Top Ten include St Andrews,...
Crises of Capitalism
I really like the RSAnimate series of animated talks by prominent academics. This one, Crises of Capitalism, is an animation of David Harvey's talk that he gave at the RSA back in 2010 - it's still...
Emma Watson on feminism
Emma Watson (aka Hermione from Harry Potter) is a UN Goodwill Ambassador. Here's what she had to say on feminism and gender inequality at the UN back in 2014:
Polls show that Conservatives seen as a divided party
A YouGov poll this week shows that the predictions made in the run-up to the 2015 General Election - that the Conservative party would be hit by increasing internal divisions - are true, according...
How did the US constitution get written?
Here are some super revision lectures from Keith Hughes of Hip Hughes History exploring the Articles of Confederation (the precursor to the US constitution) and the Constitutional Convention of...
Cassetteboy vs The Apprentice - the Donald Trump edition
I'm a big fan of Cassetteboy's mixes - his Donald Trump Apprentice / President mix would be a fun addition to any politics lesson.
Later this week, the Commons is set to debate and vote on relaxation of the Sunday trading laws, which currently restrict shops to being able to sell goods for a maximum of 6 hours on a Sunday....
BBC EU Referendum Reality Check series
Here is a super newsfeed from the BBC providing a "reality check" on the stats and data being spun by both sides of the in-out debate. Topics covered so far include:
Spending so far on the US Presidential campaign
The Economist's Daily Chart today shows the spending so far by the frontrunners in the 2016 presidential campaign, indicating the relative sizes of their vast "war chests".
London Mayor, Boris Johnson appeared on the Andrew Marr show yesterday and has now become the poster-boy for the 'Out' campaign hoping to convince people to back Britain's exit of the EU....
How to predict if you are conservative or not
As a closet psychologist, I've spent hours in recent weeks watching the fascinating Brain documentary series with Dr David Eagleman, and one story in Episode 4 really caught my eye. Scientists have...
EU Referendum Cheat Sheet
I came across this briefing from the Guardian earlier today, which provides a "Cheat Sheet" for everything you need to know about the EU referendum in one handy article.
UK civil service increasingly centralised in London
97% of the civil servants working in the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) are based in London and not in "communities" - this figure is up from 65% in April 2010 - and runs...
How does the EU affect you?
Much of the EU Referendum analysis focuses on some of the "highbrow" issues of economic growth, trade barriers and migration - but the EU affects each of us at a much more down-to-earth level on a...
Islamic State - the basics
There has been a sudden online splurge of short snippets of useful facts and background information on Islamic State in the last week or so. As an excellent starting point, this BBC news 90 second...