Blog and updates
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7 Sept 2015
Labour leadership contest - who would do what?
All eyes will be on the outcome of the Labour leadership election announced this coming Thursday. So who are the 4 candidates and what exactly do they stand for? Here is a suggested lesson activity...
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4 Sept 2015
Updating your UK Constitution Knowledge
Earlier this summer The Independent published an ebook containing information about the current state and nature of the UK's constitution. The book contains summaries of the key texts and documents...
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4 Sept 2015
What makes a good President?
Here is a great starter activity to get A2 students following the US Politics option back into the swing of things.
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4 Sept 2015
The Impact of a Heartbreaking Photo
The heartbreaking photo of a drowned Syrian toddler (linked to here - please be aware of the distressing nature of the image) has almost single-handedly this week changed the view of the public and...
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4 Sept 2015
10 Minute Quiz for your New AS students
Here's a 10 minute activity to include in your first (or second) lesson with brand new students to Government and Politics.
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3 Sept 2015
Why is Iowa so important?
All eyes were on the US Presidential hopefuls who all turned up to the Iowa State Fair in recent weeks. Why is this sparsely-populated homogeneous state so important in the electoral process?
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3 Sept 2015
Kanye West Wing
Kanye? Really? The successful rapper announced in his acceptance speech at the MTV awards that he wanted to run for President in the 2020 race. So what would a Kanye campaign look like?
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28 Aug 2015
Where Next for Labour if Corbyn Wins?
An "insurgent" left-wing candidate looks set to win the leadership of the Labour Party. Jeremy Corbyn is the front-runner to be voted Labour Party leader on 12 September 2015, reflecting a surge in...
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21 Aug 2015
Lords Legislation Log-Jam
There is a great piece by the BBC today on the challenges facing David Cameron in ensuring that his legislative agenda does not get scuppered by the Lords, where the Conservatives no longer have a...
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21 Aug 2015
The left-tilting Labour Party
A fascinating YouGov survey tracking voting preferences in the Labour leadership contest, reported in The Economist, shows how Labour is increasingly heading to the left.
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18 Aug 2015
Quick quiz for your returning A2 students - while you were away...
Here's a quick 10 minute quiz on government and politics news from the UK and the US during July and August 2015 intended as a quiz for your returning A2 students in their first lesson back. If...
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26 Jun 2015
The 2015 General Election: How It Unfolded in Ten Minutes
A superb teaching resource from Sky News! Great as an introduction to teaching the background to the actual 2015 results!
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9 Apr 2015
The Birth of New Labour - Revisited
Ed Miliband has a tricky job. His electoral credibility seems to depend on being able to simultaneously demonstrate that he is serious about deficit reduction, but also concerned to protect the...
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9 Apr 2015
The Clacton by-election: Confirmation of a Four Party Political System?
By-elections usually produce psephological anomalies. Their dynamics tend to favour smaller parties, where the small scale of the contest is more in line with their resources, and given their...
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9 Apr 2015
After the Referendum - A Union More Disunited than Before?
A high level of political participation in the Scottish referendum, unheard of in recent national and local elections, together with a sizeable proportion of that country's population indicating...
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9 Apr 2015
Catalan Regionalism - The Catalan Consulta
The 11th September, known as La Diada in Catalonia, marks the commemoration, reaching its tricentenary in 2014, of the end of the Spanish War of Succession, which resulted in centralised rule from...
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12 Mar 2015
Are we Heading for a Federal Britain?
In this interview with the Financial Times just two months away from the 2015 UK General Election, FT editor Lionel Barber speaks to political commentator Janan Ganesh, who argues that whatever the...
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13 Feb 2015
Scottish Referendum - Lessons to be Learned
The Scottish referendum of 2014 was one of only a few that have been held in the UK. There have only been two national referendums. One in 1975 over continued membership of the EEC and in 2011 over...
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4 Feb 2015
The House of Commons
The programme last night 'Inside the House on Commons' was superb and provided a wealth of examples than can be used to good effect on examinations. For students who want to build on the...
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