Yesterday saw the first implementation of the 'English votes for English Laws' rule in Parliament as English and Welsh MPs voted on the parts of the Housing and Planning Bill that impacts on their...

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I guess in years to come, A Level History students will explore maps like this to help make sense of how the Coalition's War on ISIS was won, or lost.

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Next month sees the start of the primary season with states voting for the nominees from both Democrats and Republicans. With the approaching primary seasons we will see a mix of caucuses and...

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13th January 2016

Who is Ted Cruz?

We may be hearing and seeing much more of Ted Cruz. Could he be the Republican Presidential Candidate in 2016? If so, it promises to be a fiery election campaign!

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Conservative voters in Scotland are hard to find. However, this somewhat tongue-in-cheek report by BBC Newsnight has a more serious purpose. It features an interesting interview with Ruth Davidson,...

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After much hoo-hah in the media and in schools, feminist ideology has been added back in to the proposed new A-level Politics syllabus, following a debate in the Commons last Monday. The final...

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Lord Kerslake, the former civil servant and Cabinet Secretary who was "ousted" in the 2014 Cabinet reshuffle, is now a crossbench peer in the House of Lords, warned yesterday in the Lords that he...

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The new "English votes for English laws" voting procedure was used today in the Commons for the first time in a vote on a new Housing Bill, in an attempt to tackle the issue of the West Lothian...

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Last weekend the Republican party held a presidential forum on tackling poverty, chaired by the popular House Speaker Paul Ryan - most of the Republican presidential hopefuls were present (Trump...

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I found this super BBC iWonder exploration of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland on my daily politics surf earlier - a great piece of extension material for AS students in terms of understanding the...

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As Ted Cruz increasingly seems to be the main alternative to Donald Trump for the Republican Presidential nomination, the number of Super PACs supporting him has increased - the Washington Post...

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The resignation today of shadow attorney general Catherine McKinnell caught many by surprise, especially given Jeremy Corbyn's claims earlier in the day that the Labour party was "moving on" from...

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David Cameron's relaxation of the doctrine of Collective Cabinet Responsibility over the EU In/Out Referendum is fascinating.

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A super article summarising the changes in the Arab world and the role of the Middle East in the global political system appeared in last week's Economist.

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Okay, here's a game format many of your students won't have seen before - Blockbusters! However, it's your chance to be 'Bob' and run a quick game of Blockbusters with your students. The format is...

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The shadow cabinet reshuffle is fascinating for a number of reasons: the announcements of sackings, resignations and appointments on Twitter, the huge media interest in the shadow cabinet, the...

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Following a Freedom of Information request, the BBC has accessed transcripts of many of the conversations between former US President Bill Clinton and former PM Tony Blair between 1997 and 2000....

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A truly memorable short (10 minute) film here by the BBC Newsnight team which follows the efforts of Kurdish Iraqi woman to trace her real family.

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Tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran have increased since the execution of Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr. What are the short and longer-term reasons for this?

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Some might say "about time too". As he enters his final year in office, President Obama has chosen gun control as a central part of his remaining time in the White House.

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