The 2015 General Election: How It Unfolded in Ten Minutes
A superb teaching resource from Sky News! Great as an introduction to teaching the background to the actual 2015 results!
The Birth of New Labour - Revisited
Ed Miliband has a tricky job. His electoral credibility seems to depend on being able to simultaneously demonstrate that he is serious about deficit reduction, but also concerned to protect the...
By-elections usually produce psephological anomalies. Their dynamics tend to favour smaller parties, where the small scale of the contest is more in line with their resources, and given their...
After the Referendum - A Union More Disunited than Before?
A high level of political participation in the Scottish referendum, unheard of in recent national and local elections, together with a sizeable proportion of that country's population indicating...
Catalan Regionalism - The Catalan Consulta
The 11th September, known as La Diada in Catalonia, marks the commemoration, reaching its tricentenary in 2014, of the end of the Spanish War of Succession, which resulted in centralised rule from...
Are we Heading for a Federal Britain?
In this interview with the Financial Times just two months away from the 2015 UK General Election, FT editor Lionel Barber speaks to political commentator Janan Ganesh, who argues that whatever the...
Scottish Referendum - Lessons to be Learned
The Scottish referendum of 2014 was one of only a few that have been held in the UK. There have only been two national referendums. One in 1975 over continued membership of the EEC and in 2011 over...
The House of Commons
The programme last night 'Inside the House on Commons' was superb and provided a wealth of examples than can be used to good effect on examinations. For students who want to build on the...
Greek Election; Where Politics meets Economics.
Match the MP and Constituency - Lesson Activity
Christmas Quiz on Political News Events of 2014
Red Herring Activity on Ideologies
What Sustains the The World’s Oldest Guerrilla Group?
Reshaping Britain - an student take on post-referendum Britain
Trick or Treat Politics Challenge
‘Wordsnake’ Activity on recent Party Conference Speeches
Political Compass activity - test students knowledge of UK party position