Blog and updates
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23 Feb 2022
Cabinet split over covid suggests body still matters
What does the internal struggle among ministers suggest about the role of the modern cabinet?
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7 Feb 2022
Nigel Farage, and the role of minor parties in British politics
The Guardian's book of the day earlier in the week is Michael Crick's recent biography
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3 Feb 2022
Boris Johnson and the power of the PM: update
How does the PM's use of media fit with Foley's thesis?
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28 Jan 2022
Moving towards the US Supreme Court's first black female justice
Who will replace Justice Breyer, and how will it happen?
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24 Jan 2022
A Week is a Long Time in Politics - UK Politics quiz 24 January 2022
Here's this week's UK politics news quiz. The MP for which contituency is rumoured to be involved in the 'pork pie plot'? Which Conservative MP defected to the Labour Party? Who said to Boris 'in...
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19 Jan 2022
Useful Biden article - and other sources
Just posted on the BBC website, with charts and analysis. Plus, introducing PolitiFact
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18 Jan 2022
House of Lords reform and the police bill
In defence of the Lords? We should separate its composition (bad) from the work it does (good)
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17 Jan 2022
Boris, partygate, and theories of PM power
How do we place recent events in the context of, say, the presidentialisation of the UK premiership?
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17 Jan 2022
A Week is a Long Time in Politics - UK Politics quiz 17 January 2022
Here's this week's UK politics news quiz. As seems befitting, all of the questions below include the word 'party'. Former football player Gary Neville has joined which political party? Which party...
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14 Jan 2022
What's the future for Boris?
In case you have been busy and want a round up, here is an idiot’s guide from this week's papers as to how partygate might unfold
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13 Jan 2022
Recommended podcast from the Economist
I've been promoting podcast listening with my Y12 today, both in terms of beefing up UCAS forms and their intrinsic educational benefit
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12 Jan 2022
Assessing Biden's first year
This week's marks the first anniversary of Joe Biden's arrival in the White House
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10 Jan 2022
A Week is a Long Time in Politics - UK Politics quiz 10 January 2022
Welcome back! Here's our first UK politics news quiz of 2022. Qhat prompted the #FreeMichaelGove hastag to trend? What surprise healthcare policy announcement was made by the Labour Party? An...
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6 Jan 2022
Academic research puts new spin on First Past The Post debate
And it means I have been teaching it wrong
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5 Jan 2022
UK Issues: Health Care
Why don't we talk about these more? Subject for a Politics Society talk?
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