It is clear from the worryingly low turnout at the local elections that more needs to be done to get people voting, and in particular young people. This is far from a new problem and it is time the government committed to tackling this serious issue by thinking more creatively about how to engage the youth in the future of the country they live in.
PA | Posted 12.05.2012 | UK Politics
Claims of election fraud are being investigated by police after fake election pamphlets were reportedly handed out in the name of a candidate. Leaf...
PA | Posted 13.05.2012 | UK Politics
Claims of election fraud are being investigated by police after fake election pamphlets were reportedly handed out in the name of a candidate. Leaf...
PA | Posted 12.05.2012 | UK Politics
Ed Miliband today launched Labour's biggest voter registration drive in a generation in an attempt to rebuild the support which delivered its landslid...
Gareth Edmundson | Posted 10.05.2012 | UK Politics
We had two major elections in Europe last weekend and yet the column inches devoted to Sarkozy losing to Francois Hollande completely and utterly eclipsed the reports from Greece.
Katerina Vrana | Posted 08.05.2012 | UK
The votes are in. The Greek people have spoken. And what they have said is "F***. Off".
Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 04.05.2012 | UK Politics
Labour leader Ed Miliband was hit by an egg during a post-election walkabout in Southampton on Friday. He was giving a television interview celebra...
PA | Posted 19.04.2012 | UK Politics
David Cameron pledged the Tories would deliver "real devolution" for Scotland's communities - just as his party had delivered on increased devolution ...
Gareth Edmundson | Posted 11.04.2012 | UK Politics
No.But since you asked, and for those of you are not that interested but want to sound like you have been reading the Washington Post everyday, then here is a summary as to why he wont win in ten easy steps...
Phil Shanks | Posted 03.04.2012 | UK Politics
Single-issue politics increasingly manages to grab the attention of our younger generations. The tsunami-like popularity of social networks has enabled these issues to become generated by people and organisations that operate without large party machinery, political persuasion and corporate donations.
The Huffington Post UK | Posted 30.03.2012 | UK Politics
US Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has been caught in a potentially embarrassing verbal slip-up. In a clip uploaded on Thursday and...
Tomas Hirst | Posted 20.05.2012 | UK Politics
Now the euphoria of the protest movement in Russia is abating, the opposition must choose between pragmatic unity or a foothold approach.
Gareth Edmundson | Posted 12.05.2012 | UK Politics
It occurred to me the other day that the Republican Primaries have become identical to the TV show The Biggest Loser. At the start of the Biggest Loser, fat people stand in front of their friends and family, announce they want to lose weight and then troop off to do something about it.
James Shields | Posted 08.05.2012 | UK Politics
François Hollande's visit to London last week suggested the Socialist presidential candidate is increasingly confident about his election prospects.
Tomas Hirst | Posted 05.05.2012 | UK Politics
Following his victory in yesterday's presidential election Vladimir Putin gave a tearful, patriotic speech to supporters in central Moscow befitting the characterisation of his election campaign as a battle.
Richard Robinson | Posted 22.04.2012 | UK Politics
Lying on a sun bed in Pefkos Greece last August after catching up with a batch of e-mails from constituents on a whole range of issues my mind wandered.
Gareth Edmundson | Posted 18.04.2012 | UK Politics
The merits of Obamacare, how to fix the economy, taxing the super rich, cutting the deficit, balancing the budget. Let's face it does anyone really listen to what the candidates are saying on these issues anymore? The Republicans hate Obama but right now they hate each other too and without a front runner, all of the candidates and issues are just turning into one homogenous political advert of bitterness and hate.
Firouz Mahvi | Posted 16.04.2012 | UK
The mysterious assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist on 12 January, raised questions on who was responsible for a series of similar killings. ...
The Huffington Post UK | Ned Simons | Posted 23.01.2012 | UK Politics
LONDON -- A group of Labour MPs have expressed "alarm" that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is using a British tax haven to pay a lower ...
Jon-Christopher Bua | Posted 23.03.2012 | UK
Suffering the chants of "Newt Can Win" and "USA USA" all the commentators who thought South Carolina would hand Mitt Romney the brass ring and a ticket to ride to the nomination -- it's time to eat crow!
Mike Ion | Posted 19.03.2012 | UK Politics
The Labour party was founded on principles of fairness and responsibility and out of a desire to look to the future not live in the past. 16 is a progressive number, young people are our future and we should allow them a greater say in how it is shaped.
Posted 15.01.2012 | UK
Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry has accused the Obama administration of "over-the-top rhetoric" and "disdain for the military" in its conde...
BritChick Paris | Posted 09.03.2012 | UK Lifestyle
If you believe the Mayans, 2012 heralds the end of the world. So we might as well enjoy every bit of it.
Dan Ehrlich | Posted 05.01.2012 | UK Politics
Some pundits are claiming Herman Cain's infant political career is over. But it's not because of his lack of experience or even his singing at a press conference. Instead because years-ago he may have said some politically incorrect things to women, which today count as sexual harassment.
Roslyn Fuller | Posted 08.11.2011 | UK Politics
Now that open conflict is more or less a matter of mopping up, the focus in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya will now turn to elections, just as it did i...
Francois Petavy | Posted 22.05.2012 | UK Politics