Democracy Day

Today is the 750^th anniversary of the meeting of the first elected Parliament, organised by Simon de Montfort. You can read more on the story here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30849472

 

Students also may enjoy this “History of Parliament in 60 seconds” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yr1Dj8jKv8 and the BBC are celebrating “Democracy Day” today, assessing how democratic the UK is and comparing it to democracies around the world, which links neatly to some of the ideas from Ms Hartley’s assembly this week. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-30734123

 

Democracy: AS Examples and Comments

Please add to this post any good examples or comments to assist with the Democracy section of the AS Politics Unit 1 paper.

(These posters came from this Independent article on how leading advertisers might cover campaigns for and against AV in the referendum on 5 May)

Democracy Live!

A new BBC website which links all the political institutions here and allows you to see them all in action live, see here.
Think about getting involved in the BBC School Report project which allows you to present the news!