Blog and updates
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10 Feb 2016
Why did Trump and Sanders win in New Hampshire?
If you want to dissect the specific stats and numbers from the New Hampshire Primary then you can do so here. However, it's perhaps more interesting to look at the reasons why Trump and Sanders won...
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10 Feb 2016
To what extent does climate change threaten human rights?
Mary Robinson (former President of Ireland) argues in this wide-ranging TED talk that people living in poverty are more likely to have their human rights threatened as a result of climate change,...
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10 Feb 2016
Vietnam - Communist or not?
Is Vietnam full of "red capitalists"? I've read quite a lot of analysis recently suggesting that Vietnam is both an authoritarian socialist state and also a state swimming in the unfettered...
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9 Feb 2016
Who is Marco Rubio?
The youngest candidate left in the 2016 Presidential Campaign, Marco Rubio may still be a decent bet if the Republicans want to get their man into the White House in 2016.
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8 Feb 2016
Analysis of North Korea's latest missile test
Earlier this week, North Korea claimed that it had successfully deployed a long-range missile, following its apparent H-bomb test in January. If reports are to be believed, both of these tests are...
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8 Feb 2016
Britain's right wing press
A YouGov poll published this week shows that Britons believe their press to be the most right-wing in Europe, with only 32% of people saying that the media hits the right note. The charts below...
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8 Feb 2016
Winston's War-Winning Words
Winston Churchill realised the importance of great speeches and even greater oratory - many of his words from WW2 are still quoted today. Churchill wrote his own speeches, and was his own...
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7 Feb 2016
Donald Trump Will Never be President - His Mouth is Too Small
You won't find this kind of analysis in the A Level Politics textbooks.
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7 Feb 2016
Civil Service statistics
How many people work in the Civil Service? Is the make up of the Civil Service fairly representative? What are their working patterns like? Find out every statistic you could ever possibly want to...
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7 Feb 2016
Measuring the impact of political advertising on TV in the US
This week's Economist contains an impressively-researched data chart, showing the relationship between the number of political TV ads (both positive and negative adverts) and the impact that those...
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7 Feb 2016
The use of social media to drive political change
Social media - Twitter, Facebook, Instagram etc - is increasingly being used to drive forward political change, and is worth looking more closely at especially for students of global politics.
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5 Feb 2016
Charting Putin's Popularity
I'm a big fan of the Economist Daily Charts - this "timeline" chart, mapping key events in Russia since 2000 against the popularity of Vladimir Putin and the Russian Government, shows that Mr Putin...
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5 Feb 2016
What the EU thinks
With the publishing of the draft agreement between Britain and the EU, pollsters have surveyed opinion from across the nation. But, the EU leaders still need to vote on the proposals at the...
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5 Feb 2016
The US Judicial system explained
Another lively video from Hip Hughes History - this one is an 8 minute whizz through the key structures and roles of the US Judiciary, giving useful background knowledge for the Supreme Court topic...
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5 Feb 2016
Congressional Committees explained
Here is a short video from Crash Course on the role of Congressional Committees in US Politics - a useful starter to the topic.
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5 Feb 2016
Youth representation in Dubai
Dubai's ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, has asked the country's universities to nominate three men and three women who have graduated in the last two years, or are in their final year...
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5 Feb 2016
Ten Minute Rule Bills
According to Parliament's glossary, Ten Minute Rule Bills are a type of Private Members' Bill in the House of Commons. It allows a backbench MP to make his or her case for a new Bill in a speech...
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3 Feb 2016
What Are the Greatest Threats to World Security?
The political / economic environment is packed with potential threats and risks? But, which of these genuinely pose a threat to world security?
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3 Feb 2016
Election Time in the Emerald Isle
In just over three weeks the Republic of Ireland will go to the polls to elect a new Dáil (Parliament). Irish Prime Minister or Taoiseach Enda Kenny, hopes to be the first Fine Gael leader ever...
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2 Feb 2016
Has Cameron got what he wanted in the EU deal?
There is heaps of analysis in the news about the so-called EU deal struck between David Cameron and Donald Tusk. So here is a reminder of what Cameron wanted from the deal, and a look at whether he...
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