Starting A-level Politics
A practical reading, listening and viewing guide for students beginning the course: Essential, Desirable and Even Better If.
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Frameworks, examples and preparation guides designed to help students make sense of Politics rather than merely survive it.
Starting A-level Politics: The USA
A structured introduction to the American side of the course, with books, podcasts, documentaries and comparative preparation.
View the USA preparation guide →The Paul Talks Politics Essay Toolkit
A practical guide to introductions, paired arguments, comparative judgement and conclusions that actually conclude.
Download coming soon →How to assess prime-ministerial power
A framework built around party, Parliament, patronage, popularity and events.
View resource →Congress versus Parliament
A comparison structure that avoids writing two separate essays and hoping for the best.
View resource →Liberalism: agreement and division
Classical and modern liberalism organised around human nature, society, state and economy.
View resource →The live examples bank
Recent developments mapped to Edexcel topics and arguments.
View resource →The 12-mark comparison
How to compare from the first sentence and keep doing it until the clock intervenes.
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