The A level Politics Podcast: Recent Episodes
Mr Patel UK and Global
A podcast made by an A level politics teacher and editor of alevelpolitics.com to help students studying the subject. I cover UK and Global routes. Follow me on twitter @patelshop And visit my site https://www.alevelpolitics.com/ Sign up for my weekly news briefing
The Johnson government has intervened in the economy in recent weeks and the past year like no other Conservative government in recent history. My take.
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This is the audio of a lesson I delivered to my students on the recent spat between the EU Commission and the UK and Astra Zeneca. It's an unedited lesson (sorry very unrefined) but I thought it would help with exampling the EU and Regionalism topic. I used a whiteboard in the lesson but I am sure you can follow it.
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I take a look at the recent role of select committees and backbenchers and how they have been pretty successful recently in holding the government to account.
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We cannot change government policy but it is within every students reach to still work towards a grade that will get them into university. Here are my tips on how to get through these next five months.
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Bleta explains how you would write an essay looking at whether there is a democratic deficit in the UK?
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My tips on how to write a UCAS personal statement and how to sound genuine?
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Here is an interview on #bbcr4today this morning, with a former Director of the WHO, Anthony Castello - he argues the government can (if it decided) shift testing up to South Korean standards. There are no shortages of testing machines, labs and expertise. Uploading here so I can share.
Here are my thoughts on deglobalisation and the coronavirus outbreak together with a short interview between Evan Davis of the BBC and Francis Fukuyama.
My thoughts on the reshuffle and the powerful number 10 adviser Dominic Cummings. Are we seeing the emergence of a new presidentialism?
A quick podcast I have put together to explain how to productively revise and recap work. Too many students believe revision is through endless note-taking and rewriting of notes or merely constructing plans. In my mind these techniques only have a marginal benefit.
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I take a look at the 12 mark question ‘Analyse the position of realists and liberals on security and the likelihood of conflict’ [12]
Also I touch on exam technique.
A good podcast from Monocle that will help you with the Power and Development topic looking at soft power.
A look at a 30 mark question, evaluate the extent to which the major parties are internally divided. follow me @patelshop.
Looking at the launch of two new groupings today, the One Nation Conservatives led by Amber Rudd and the Blue Collar Conservatives led by Esther McVey as well as the established hardline Brexit caucus, the ERG.
An update on UK politics for your C1 and C2 exams. I look at the May council election, the Peterborough recall elections and the pressure group Extinction Rebellion
Monocle Foreign Desk – China is fast becoming, if it isn’t already, the world’s next superpower. But how questionable are the methods it’s using to..
A quick podcast recording I put together to help students with the unit 1 resit exam. In the recording I look at two questions, differences..
Joseph Nye discusses how nations are increasingly using ‘sharp power’ as part of their foreign policies.
A very good Radio 4 programme on the success and otherwise of modern and historical protest movements. This is very good for key contemporary pressure..
Nikki Haley discusses the United States’ goals for its term as president of the UN Security Council in April. US Ambassador Haley outlines her plans..
This is an interesting audio article by US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, outlining the case for American economic leadership.
The mood of much of the world is grim these days. Turmoil in the Middle East, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of..