Happy New Year to all readers and writers of Political Promise. Thank you for your support, comments and contributions. In two years, we blazed the trail to get our voices heard, set the news agenda ...
…a club remix of Margaret Thatcher’s ‘no confidence debate’ in November 1990! (Featuring a terrible impression of John Major and a random girl fist-pumping)
“There is a world outside France and Germany” says Michael Pickles. This is not about being a “little-Englander” Eurosceptic, this is about embracing true, whole globalisation...
The Conservatives are two points ahead of Labour in the latest poll for the first time since 14th December 2010. Charlie Edwards blames the European veto, weak opposition and Christmas spirit for Cam...
Was it the Merkozy power couple who were the real winners after the emergency summit on the Eurozone crisis today? Liam Quinn examines the details of the new deal. From a British perspective this mor...
The Bank of England do not think the Government’s deficit reduction plans are enough to stimulate economy, and have taken matters into their own hands again. Liam Quinn in a PP Economics specia...
The figures are out! And they all point to one conclusion: the fact that the figures mean very little to anybody. Alexander Blakoe takes a closer look at UCAS’s recent press release and the left-wi...
Yesterday, Political Promise published one of the last pictures taken of Libya’s former leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, along with news websites, blogs and television channels across the world....
Top story today is the capture and killing of the former Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. More follows… As fighting ramped up in Sirte, Gaddafi’s home town, an air strike hit the c...
Garry Lee had an unexpected, in-depth conversation with a taxi driver at 5am that reaffirmed his belief that everyone has a useful insight when it comes to politics. As a cash-strapped graduate looki...
On the 16th of October police were asked to move along by rev. Dr Giles Fraser, Canon of St. Pauls Cathedral. What were they doing? Matteo Bergamini went to find out. A protest on reckless banking wa...
Michael Pickles thinks that the only way to recover the UK economy is to be cautious of Europe and diversify its trade to the wider world. We are the sixth largest economy in the world. That is out ...
Jamie Walden argues that Turkey lacks the moral authority required to be condemning Israel. A gang of religious fanatics holler about a supernatural being and the glory of possibly being killed in sa...
This summer has been an unusual one for Britons, says Zachary Barker. In the final of our riots series, he talks about the policy responses of the main party leaders. First and foremost the country ...
Published July this year was the book How to be a Woman by The Times journalist Caitlin Moran, detailing a new type of feminism. About time it got a re-brand, asks Isobel Archer? Moran’s feminism is ...
Garry Lee isn’t convinced by Ed, Dave and Nick’s new fascination with Google+. Is your MP actually writing their own Twitter? Next time you go to ‘like’ a politician on Facebo...
Over the past few years, comparing the main political parties side-by-side has become a veritable game of ‘spot the difference’. Blair “was a red Tory”, Cameron “is too centre-ground”, and Clegg is&...
Following the revelations contained within Alistair Darling’s memoirs, and given his lack of parliamentary activity over the last year, it is surely time for Allie Wickham to ask whether Gordon Brown...
Rich Cunningham asks: “Are invasions of privacy necessary when trying to arrest suspects of ’inciting’ a riot?” What remained of ‘common-sense’ seems as shattered as any pane of glass in ...
In the latest of the pieces on the riots, East London-dwelling Vicky Wong provides her take on the events of the past week. The cause of the London riots have been blamed on a plethora of things from...
“Hugo Chavez has had an eventful life,” writes Zachary Barker. “Having survived two coup attempts, his next struggle to may be his toughest. He has cancer.” By the standards o...
In the latest in our series about the riots, Pav Sandhu asks “So where does this leave us?” We have heard so many excuses by those attempting to justify themselves who took part in...
Political Promise can exclusively reveal that Piers Morgan, the former editor of the Daily Mirror newspaper, will be investigated by the Metropolitan Police over allegations of phone hacking. Allie W...
In the second in our debate on the riots, Alex Gabriel asks can we talk about the violence? He believes that we can say what we like, these riots were political in every sense. There are lots of reas...
Two very different perspectives on last week’s riots, Archie Manners believes the “lost generation” is a trap many fall into for no reason. Like this blog, he believes that the medi...
What a year it has been for Political Promise. We have reached over 100,000 computer screens across the UK and have built a network of hundreds of students who have had articles published. Please ple...
David Cameron announced today that MPs will be recalled on Thursday from their Summer holidays. Whilst Liam Quinn can only speculate what will be discussed, he thinks bringing the Army in to keep the...
Matteo Bergamini is a Londoner left ashamed and shocked by the rioting that plagued the capital last night. Thick black smoke rose into the night sky and rioters burnt another building to the ground...
Charlie Edwards has quashed his summer recess blues with PMQ’s: the Game. A pixelated David Cameron and Ed Miliband go head to head, debating policy and making quips with one aim: to get a roa...
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