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7 Mar 2016
EU Referendum Cheat Sheet
I came across this briefing from the Guardian earlier today, which provides a "Cheat Sheet" for everything you need to know about the EU referendum in one handy article.
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7 Mar 2016
UK civil service increasingly centralised in London
97% of the civil servants working in the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) are based in London and not in "communities" - this figure is up from 65% in April 2010 - and runs...
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6 Mar 2016
How does the EU affect you?
Much of the EU Referendum analysis focuses on some of the "highbrow" issues of economic growth, trade barriers and migration - but the EU affects each of us at a much more down-to-earth level on a...
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6 Mar 2016
Islamic State - the basics
There has been a sudden online splurge of short snippets of useful facts and background information on Islamic State in the last week or so. As an excellent starting point, this BBC news 90 second...
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6 Mar 2016
Nancy Reagan - Former First Lady | A biography
Former First Lady and widow of Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan has died at the age of 94. Ronald Reagan died in 2004, and whilst many know all about Ronald, Nancy was still a force to be reckoned with...
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4 Mar 2016
Could Trump University Prove Donald's Achilles Heel?
The establishment in the Republican Party is desperately trying to find an issue that might derail the seemingly runaway train that is the Donald Trump campaign for the GOP nomination. Could the...
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4 Mar 2016
Clinton and Her Superdelegates
When it comes to the Democratic and Republican Party conventions to select their Presidential candidate, look out for the influence of the "superdelegates".
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4 Mar 2016
What's Behind the Rise of Donald Trump?
As the Republican Party scramble to find ways of stopping Donald Trump winning the GOP nomination, it is timely to consider how and why the Republicans have found themselves with a candidate the...
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4 Mar 2016
The Political Leanings Of US Religious Groups
Surveys have often shows that religion is an important aspect of an American presidential race. The electorate frequently say that it's important to have a a president with strong religious beliefs...
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3 Mar 2016
Is the UK's next general election rigged in favour of the Tories?
With changes afoot in terms of boundaries (equalising the size of constituencies and reducing the number of MPs to 600) and reductions in the amount of money provided to the Opposition ("Short...
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3 Mar 2016
Freedom of Information Act set to stay
Despite Sir Jeremy Heywood describing the FOI Act as having a "chilling effect" on the government, and Tony Blair describing himself following his introduction of the FOI Act as "There is really no...
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2 Mar 2016
Clinton vs Trump - spot the quote!
Here's the next in our series of starters you can use in your class asking students to determine which quote on screen comes from Donald Trump and which comes from Hillary Clinton. Seperate your...
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2 Mar 2016
A quick Super Tuesday results map
We know now that Trump (R) and Clinton (D) did pretty well on Super Tuesday's primaries and caucuses. Here's a quick visual overview from the New York Times of who won what and where.
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2 Mar 2016
Politicisation of the UK civil service?
The complexity of the EU referendum has certainly been muddying the waters around the relationships between ministers and their civil servants. Yesterday, the Commons Public Administration Select...
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2 Mar 2016
Lord Mandelson on Collective Cabinet Responsibility
Lord Mandelson, the Labour peer, has said today that he believes Ministers endorsing the Leave campaign in the EU Referendum should have been handed their P45s, because their behaviour is not in...
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2 Mar 2016
The world's longest filibuster finally ends
Today, South Korea's Opposition finally ended a 192 hour filibuster in their Parliament, which was intended to block an anti-terrorism bill. The Opposition finally gave up as they realised that in...
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1 Mar 2016
No planned changes to the Freedom of Information Act
A report out later today will recommend no changes to the workings of the Freedom of Information Act (first introduced in 2000). One suggestion was to introduce a fee schedule for FOI requests in...
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1 Mar 2016
Clarence Thomas (finally!) asks a question
Clarence Thomas, the conservative Supreme Court justice, asked a question in a hearing on Monday for the first time in TEN YEARS! Having got the ball rolling with one question, he then managed to...
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29 Feb 2016
Clinton Builds Support from the Black Vote
The Clinton campaign in 2016 seems to be building unstoppable momentum now, helped in no small part by endorsements from black political and cultural leaders. That marks a significant change in...
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29 Feb 2016
Michael Gove and changes to the judiciary
How much influence does the Minister for Justice have over the judiciary? This is a key element of the debate of whether politicians have too much influence over the judiciary, and therefore...
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