In the many comments made about Michael Gove's appointment as Education Secretary, one area that has generally been overlooked is his unhealthy attitude to history teaching.

Saturday's rally for Fair Votes was the most inspiring demonstration I have attended for quite a while.

History has great comic timing. It is 350 years this month since a major political compromise with an uncanny modern-day parallel.

Last week the British public did something extraordinary. With millions of different views and motivations, we managed to vote in such a way as to deliver a hung parliament, driving the first wedge in the door of a system that has for too long kept most politicians far removed from democratic accountability.

No coalition has yet been formed, but politicians on various sides are already talking of “stability” as if it over-rode all other considerations of democracy and policy.

British Christians have firmly rejected sectarian party politics by offering almost no support at all to the Christian Party, who secured less than two per cent of the vote in each of the 71 constituencies they contested.

Today, I went to a polling station to do something which I hope never to do again. I voted in a general election conducted under the first-past-the-post system.

Philip Lardner, Tory candidate for Ayrshire North and Aaron, recently argued that homosexuality is not “normal”. David Cameron immediately announced that he would be removed as a Conservative candidate.

This week it was revealed that the Christian Party's candidate for Croydon Central, James Gitau, was a member of the far-right British National Party

I'm currently waiting to hear from all six candidates in my constituency about a topic that much of the media have ignored during the election campaign - the government's subservience to the arms industry.