A place for you to broaden your understanding of the British Political Issues unit. Click on links below for other blogs you might be interested in. For USA blog see link below. Use the 'labels' (below on the right) to direct you to key topics. You're welcome.
Other History & Politics Blogs/sites
Friday 30 December 2011
Thursday 29 December 2011
NH - Yes! Summary article
Tuesday 20 December 2011
Friday 9 December 2011
Saturday 3 December 2011
How green is the coalition?
New green alliance in savage attack on George Osborne http://gu.com/p/33zpq
Friday 2 December 2011
Gove peace a chance
Michael Gove the comrade. Whatever happened to Tories with a difference? | Jonathan Jones http://gu.com/p/33z3e
Tuesday 29 November 2011
Monday 28 November 2011
Carbon capture safe after all?
Government moves to calm carbon capture funding fears http://gu.com/p/33kke
Sunday 27 November 2011
Why the 80s are so controversial - and it's not the music
No one should want to go back to the 80s – not even the Tories | Andrew Rawnsley http://gu.com/p/33k7y
Atilla the Hen
2009 saw the 30th anniversary of her first election victory as Conservative leader. THIS one claims that Thatcher's aim - a more moral society - was undermined by her methods.
Reassuringly predictable articles from The Telegraph and the New Statesman.
Saturday 26 November 2011
The Big Boris Idea
Friday 25 November 2011
Tuesday 22 November 2011
Monday 21 November 2011
Bojo - neo A Po
Sunday 20 November 2011
Saturday 19 November 2011
Wednesday 16 November 2011
Pump up the Jam
Tuesday 15 November 2011
Thursday 10 November 2011
National Wealth Service?
A private business is to take over the management of
Wednesday 9 November 2011
Why is the introduction of more competition into the NHS controversial?
Just been looking at your short answer questions. Thought I'd share some of my reading prep with you:
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/public-leaders-network/2011/may/18/nhs-reform-why-competition-works
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8823053/More-NHS-competition-would-cut-death-rate.html
- http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/competition-has-not-made-nhs-better-say-experts-2368099.html
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jul/19/nhs-services-open-to-competition
Tuesday 1 November 2011
Kent also calculates that the overfunding of academies is so acute that, if 30% of its schools were to convert to academy status, payments to them would leave it with no budget at all for services to support the remaining 70%.
Tuesday 18 October 2011
Gove will tear us apart...?
Here's one of the more useful ones by Mike Baker
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/oct/17/local-education-authorities
and then one that sets out the broad lines of current Labour policy on Free Schools (they won't ban them, but won't promote them.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/18/labours-teaching-mission
How have coalition policies impacted on the NHS?
Again the dilemma for Tories is how to push through reforms or in this case, massive savings, while sticking to their claim to be against top-down, 'New Labour'-style diktats, whilst also remaining electable!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/oct/17/nhs-cuts-impact-on-patients-revealed
Sunday 16 October 2011
Rawnsley on Fox resignation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/16/andrew-rawnsley-liam-fox-not-untypical
Saturday 15 October 2011
What do you mean you've never heard of the Beveridge report?
Thursday 13 October 2011
Discipline in schools
http://www.itv.com/itvplayer/video/?Filter=281017
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/localgovernment/2011/03/what-makes-mossbourne-so-good.html
Tuesday 11 October 2011
Yes Prime Minister on education
YouTube - State of Education - Yes, Prime Minister - BBC
Interesting that this highlights the concerns of many Conservative ministers of the 1970s and 80s about a left wing bias in education. It seems that every generation believes that education is not what it used to be.
Monday 10 October 2011
May and the cat
It’s not nasty to fix our human rights problem - Telegraph
I include this as it's a good article for considering the underlying ideological assumptions of arguments, something Y13 candidates need to do for the so- called synoptic marks.
Sunday 9 October 2011
Critique of the concept of choice in the NHS
A good summary of the arguments against. Remember all major political parties in favour of choice in the NHS now. Those against are as expected the unions (eg Unison) and Old Labour types.
Rationing in the NHS
This is a link to a video about rationing in the NHS.