Blog and updates
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24 Mar 2016
Hostility towards Corbyn within the Labour Party
Given the recent resignation of Iain Duncan Smith and the apparent schism within the Conservative Party over the topic of European Union membership, it may be easy to forget that the Labour Party...
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23 Mar 2016
Revealed! The DfE Requirements for the New A Level Politics Specifications from Sept 2017
Would you like to know what will need to be in the new A Level Politics specifications for teaching from September 2017? The details have just been released.
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22 Mar 2016
The Presidential Election Game
Presidential candidates must win states to gain the electoral college votes in order to secure victory in elections, but with fifty states and the District of Columbia all having a say, can your...
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21 Mar 2016
Is BREXIT More Likely Than You Think? (The Answer Might be Linked to Trump)
Most of the recent opinion polls show Leave ahead of Remain - though it is early days of course. However, the bookmakers have Remain as the most likely result of the EU Referendum on 23 June.
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21 Mar 2016
The Battle for Garland: The Republicans Strike Back
Over the weekend, I blogged about the weekly address by President Obama, that encouraged Senate Republicans to uphold their constitutional duty and interview and confirm his choice of Merrick...
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19 Mar 2016
The Battle for Garland & Your Exam
In the weekly address to the American people, Barack Obama has used the time to ramp up the pressure on Republican Senators in order to get his nominee Merrick Garland confirmed by the Senate.
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18 Mar 2016
The Simpsons prediction of a Trump presidency
An article in the Guardian earlier this week alerted me to a number of events "predicted" by the Simpsons - and one such event was their prediction, years ago, of a Donald Trump presidency. Take a...
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17 Mar 2016
The global risk of a Trump presidency
The Economist Intelligence Unit regularly publishes a list of what it perceives to be the top threats to the global economy, and the most recent list makes for interesting reading, as a Trump...
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17 Mar 2016
Has IS committed genocide?
John Kerry, the US Secretary of State, has declared that the US believes Islamic State to have committed genocide against Christians, Shia Muslims and Yazidis. He also believes IS to be responsible...
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17 Mar 2016
Will the cuts to "Short Money" reduce scrutiny of the government?
In George Osborne's previous Budget (aka the Autumn Statement) back in November, he announced that so-called Short Money - the money given to opposition parties to help them conduct their affairs...
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16 Mar 2016
Inside Obama's White House - BBC documentary
The first episode in a short series on Obama's time in the White House was aired on Tuesday evening this week - this episode focuses on Obama's first 100 days in office, and shows the issues he...
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16 Mar 2016
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...
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15 Mar 2016
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.
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15 Mar 2016
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...
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15 Mar 2016
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...
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14 Mar 2016
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
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10 Mar 2016
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,...
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10 Mar 2016
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...
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9 Mar 2016
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:
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9 Mar 2016
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...
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