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2 Oct 2015
Read All About It! Topical News quiz for your Government and Politics Students
Here's a topical Government and Politics quiz for your students, using news stories from the past week. Hopefully, your students are regularly keeping up to date with what is going on in the real...
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1 Oct 2015
Beyond the Bike - conflict minerals and Africa
What causes civil war? There are many theories, but at the heart of many recent African conflicts has been the devastating search for minerals to fuel our purchases of electronic gizmos and our...
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30 Sept 2015
What is Trident?
Jeremy Corbyn doesn't want to replace it (and wouldn't push the nuclear button anyway). The SNP share the same view on Trident - something they can agree with parts of Labour on!So - what is...
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29 Sept 2015
What's the point of Party Conferences?
It's been said that party conferences are either intended to make politicians look and sound like "normal people" (for once) or that they just a bit pointless. Whilst the nature of conferences has...
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28 Sept 2015
Will David Cameron contest the 2020 General Election?
During the run-up to the 2015 General Election, David Cameron assured both friends and foes alike that he would not seek a third term of office. This blog post contests that the context in which...
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28 Sept 2015
US Supreme Court Cases to Watch
As the website 'The Hill', has written the US Supreme Court returns today to continue its business after the summer break. Whilst the court is still to finalise its docket, political pundits are...
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28 Sept 2015
E-Voting: Does Democracy Need Technology?
Is it time for electronic voting here in the UK? Is a manual system of polling stations and ballot boxes inconsistent with a society that has now fully embraced digital technology? Would you be...
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26 Sept 2015
Limitations to Super Political Action Committees
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has bowed out of the 2016 Republican Presidential race after just a 10 week campaign. Whilst the field is crowded, it seems that those candidates who have wealthy...
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25 Sept 2015
US Politics Update: John Boehner Resigns as Speaker
US House Speaker, John Boehner has announced he will resign as Speaker and from Congress altogether.
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24 Sept 2015
Behind the Scenes with Jeremy Corbyn
A fascinating six-minute behind-the-scenes take on the labour leadership campaign of Jeremy Corbyn here - as recorded by the BBC Newsnight team. It certainly picks up on the unbridled enthusiasm of...
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23 Sept 2015
War is Boring - a photojournalist's view on Northern Iraq
I love this collection of photos and blogs from photojournalist Matt Cetti Roberts based in Iraqi-Kurdistan in his War is Boring project.
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23 Sept 2015
Mullah Mansour accepted as new Taliban leader
As news of actions by groups such as IS and Boko Haram dominate international headlines, it can be easy to overlook the fact that the Taliban, the Afghan fundamentalist political movement, is still...
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23 Sept 2015
Lesson idea - UK Cabinet Compare and Contrast
Building knowledge of key political figures in the UK is an important part of the learning process for Year 12 students.
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22 Sept 2015
Ashcroft and Cameron - settling scores?
Much of the nation was glued to social media yesterday after revelations about David Cameron's high japes at university hit the headlines following discussion of Lord Ashcroft's...
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22 Sept 2015
Judicial review - a tale of two bridges
Getting a card game and a controversial Thomas Heatherwick design into one politics lesson isn't something that happens everyday! However, in this blog, they are brought together as a result of the...
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21 Sept 2015
Are You New to Teaching Politics?
Join us on October 7th in London for our brand-new course for new and inexperienced Politics which will give new politics teachers the confidence they need to successfully deliver A-level Politics.
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21 Sept 2015
Freedom of Speech - Necessary or a Menace?
Jonathan Dimbleby is delivering a lecture in Turin tomorrow about the freedom of speech, and has published a thoughtful synopsis of that speech in today's Guardian. Freedom of speech refers to the...
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21 Sept 2015
Rockin and a Rollin, Splishing and a Splashing, Over the Horizon, What can it be?
Every American childs favourite 70's cartoon! It must be Schoolhouse Rock! There is perhaps no better or more annoying way to learn the basics of US Politics, than watching Schoolhouse Rock with...
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21 Sept 2015
Rising power of China
This interactive graphic from the BBC is, I think, one of the most useful graphics I have seen in terms of mapping the huge rise in Chinese living standards, and acting as a springboard into...
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21 Sept 2015
The new political participants who don't understand debate
Is increasing political participation beneficial for democracy if the new participants don't accept anyone's right to disagree with them?
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