Politics Category
First-past-the-post voting
For UK General Elections and local councils in England and Wales we have always used the first-past-the-post…
The Foreign Secretary
Short for ‘His/Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs’, the position of Foreign…
Order of the Garter
The Most Noble Order of the Garter is the oldest recognition of outstanding service to the nation…
The Whig Party
The Whig Party was active between 1678 and 1868 and emerged as the counter-balance to the dominance…
The Labour Party
The Labour Party is a socialist political party and, until recently, has been seen as the main…
The Speaker and Lord Speaker
In a political debate there needs to be someone ‘in the chair’ who organises the agenda, the…
Prime Minister’s Questions
Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) began as a concession to elderly Prime Ministers. In 1881, when PM Gladstone…
Political parties
Newspapers and TV focus heavily on just two political parties ~ Conservative and Labour ~ but there…
NATO membership
The UK was one of the original twelve members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) when…
The Suffragettes
‘Suffrage’ is the right to vote. ‘Suffragists’ were those who were campaigning for women’s suffrage in the…
Democracy
Democracy is a word that is constantly bandied about by politicians and the media. Some use it…
Keynesian economics
Lord John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) was born in Cambridge, where his father taught economics at the University.…