You can use this Annual Update for tasks throughout your course and for help with examination questions.

- Review all the developments relevant to A-level specifications in UK politics from the last year, with examples linked closely to specification points, strong links between topics and focused suggestions for further reading
- Develop your confidence with expert analysis you can draw on both throughout your course and in the exams
- Enhance your knowledge of the news to build a bank of up-to-date examples linked to the specifications, helping you to develop persuasive arguments for your essays
- Learn more about the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic and other up-to-date political developments, and how to put them into context

Table of contents: UK update 2021
1. Legitimacy and the lockdown: from health crisis to democratic crisis?
2. The Black Lives Matter movement: pressure, protest and controversy
3. Individual and collective rights: civil liberties campaigns in the 2020s
4. Political parties in the 2020s: funding, fairness and the future
5. Influence of the media: Is the BBC biased and does it matter?
6. Devolution and health crisis
7. The House of Lords: too big, too partisan and time for change?
8. What impact did the health crisis have on the relationship between parliament and the executive?
9. Controlling the health crisis: how effective was Boris Johnson in dictating events and determining policy?