Blog and updates
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25 Oct 2016
Walla where? How one region just larger than Wales wrecked CETA
It was all going so well for the CETA (The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement) process between Canada and the EU. Brussels and Ottawa have spend seven years negotiating the finer points of...
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25 Oct 2016
How Big Data Might Shape the US Election
Michael Crick's Channel 4 piece last night on how big data might be influencing the US election is well worth a watch - slightly scary in many ways!
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12 Oct 2016
Global politics - library of resources
There is a good selection of resources on global politics available from the OUP in theirinteractive library of international relations, covering globalisation, theories/models of global politics...
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12 Oct 2016
Introducing the Parliament topic
The news that the Labour Party has set out 170 Brexit-related questions to the government in order to scrutinise the Brexit process is a great starting point for teaching the Parliament topic. I...
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12 Oct 2016
US Money and Politics timeline
If you've not yet discovered the Open Secrets website (from the Center for Responsive Politics) then you're about to find an amazing treasure trove of election facts and stats.
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26 Sept 2016
Politics Quiz of the Week
By popular request, here is this week's super starter In the News Politics Quiz, courtesy of Clive Owen of Minster School, Southwell.
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22 Sept 2016
Latest thoughts on the new proposed Politics specifications
Yesterday I attended the free exam board launch events / CPD in London - certainly lots of debate and discussion about how much weighting should be placed on ideologies for the full A level,...
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22 Sept 2016
Guide to the New Proposed A Level Politics Specifications
I've been taking a very close look at the proposed new A level Politics specifications this week. OCR, as many of us know, have decided to discontinue their Politics A level, which leaves just AQA...
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21 Sept 2016
Classroom Posters for A Level Politics: Human Rights
Human Rights is the topic focus for this new set of six full-colour posters for the A Level Politics classroom.
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21 Sept 2016
Classroom Posters for A Level Politics: Devolution
This new set of six full-colour classroom posters for A Level Politics explores the topic of Devolution.
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21 Sept 2016
Classroom Posters for A Level Politics: Nature of the UK Constitution
This new set of six a3-sized classroom posters helps illustrate the Nature of the UK Constitution.
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21 Sept 2016
Classroom Posters for A Level Politics: Sources of the UK Constitution
We've just received the first copies of a brand new classroom poster set for A Level Politics - this one is on the Sources of the UK Constitution.
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20 Sept 2016
Identify the politician by the biscuit
Here's a fun little lesson starter for UK politics students - can you identify the favourite biscuit of a range of UK politicians? I got a fairly terrible score of 3 out of 7 - can your students...
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20 Sept 2016
All the Way - a movie and worksheet about President Johnson
All the Way chronicles Lyndon Johnson’s first year in office from the assassination of JFK in November 1963 to his election as President in November 1964. LBJ and his wife, Ladybird, were in Texas...
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20 Sept 2016
Your fantasy Cabinet
Here's a fun lesson idea to teach students about Cabinet at the same time as building some knowledge about former politicians, based on the BBC's Fantasy Cabinet concept.
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19 Sept 2016
The barriers facing third party presidential candidates
The vast majority of the US Presidential focus is on Hillary Clinton (D) and Donald Trump (R), but dig a little deeper and you'll discover the third party candidates too, including Libertarian...
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19 Sept 2016
Judicial Review - Justice for Health and Junior Doctors' Contract
It's not that often that a really high profile Judical Review case hits the headlines, but there's one today! Justice for Health - a pressure group acting on behalf of the UK's junior doctors - has...
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19 Sept 2016
Free course from Parliament about...Parliament!
Here's a cracking opportunity to register for a free FutureLearn course from Parliament, all about Parliament! Brilliant for new politics teachers, and for AS/Year 12 politics students who want to...
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19 Sept 2016
BBC Manifesto Tracker
The manifesto tracker from the BBC takes a look at how well the government is keeping its manifesto pledges from the 2015 general election - a great tool for assessing the continued relevance of...
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19 Sept 2016
The challenges for Diane James
When considering the differences between pressure groups and political parties, UKIP help to exemplify how an organisation can be both. Their electoral success in terms of vote share in 2015and in...
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