Blog and updates
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23 Jul 2024
Labour and electoral reform: Turkeys at Christmas
Great article in the Guardian about the prospects of the new government ditching first past the post
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23 Jul 2024
Has the time come Kamala to step up?
Her role as veep might well turn out to be unusually important
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11 Jul 2024
Trump's VP pick - video clip and questions
A great deal of attention has turned to who Donald Trump's running mate will be
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11 Jul 2024
Starmer's new Cabinet
A nice article with an early insight into the PM/Cabinet topic area
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10 Jul 2024
UK Politics Annual Quiz | 2023 - 2024
Here's a quick quiz for your remaining students on events that have taken place in the UK politics world since the academic year started in September 2023. The quiz includes 10 questions - how many...
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8 Jul 2024
GE24 voting behaviour: the rise of the independents
Further evidence of the fragmentation of the two party system
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5 Jul 2024
GE24: what would happen under a PR based system?
Great intro for understanding electoral systems
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5 Jul 2024
GE24: the nation changes its government
Some highlights and analysis of a momentous night
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4 Jul 2024
Election night 24: the nation decides
A couple of explainers on the mechanics and a preview of the outcome
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2 Jul 2024
GE24: the Farage effect
Nice clip from the Radio Times on how the Tories could be affected by the Reform Party
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1 Jul 2024
GE24: ethnicity and voting behaviour
Useful little clip from Sky News on this aspect of psephology
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27 Jun 2024
GE24: where do young voters stand?
Quite a good article and news clip to use as classroom stimulus on voting behaviour for this demographic
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26 Jun 2024
More on opinion polls. But should there be any more?
One writer consider an array of the latest polls, and another writes that he's had enough of them
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26 Jun 2024
GE24: more on social media
A nice little clip from Sky News with loads of facts and figures on the topic
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25 Jun 2024
GE24: the impact of new media
The Guardian asks in a fascinating article if this will be the first post-mainstream media eletion
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25 Jun 2024
Were you up for Portillo redux?
Will we see a repeat of that famous night in at GE97 when a host of big hitters lost their seats?
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