UK Protest

Let's Challenge Some of the Lazy Media Myths Propogated by Coverage of the Occupy Movement

Sean Faye | Posted 29.04.2012 | UK
Sean Faye

The most benign of the viewers' emails and texts being read out on Sky News and the BBC during and in the immediate aftermath of the occupation were expressing variations on a belief that the eviction was the appropriate course of action because the protest proved itself inefficacious.

Occupy Pays Tribute To 'Extraordinary' Protesters After Late-Night Eviction

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 28.04.2012 | UK

Occupy London's organisers have paid tribute to the evicted protesters at St Paul's Cathedral who "peacefully resisted to the last". The camp which...

The Hard Left is Giving Student Politics a Bad Name

Tom Newham | Posted 25.04.2012 | UK Politics
Tom Newham

Student politics has a bad reputation. Ask average Joe Public and he'd tell you that it enjoys a dubious association with the hard left, with pretentious wannabe revolutionaries and with fierce self-importance in the face of crippling irrelevance.

Occupy London: St Paul's Protesters 'Have No Grounds To Appeal' Eviction

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 22.04.2012 | UK

The Occupy London protesters based at St Paul's Cathedral have no right to appeal an eviction order granted last month, a judge has ruled. More to ...

Occupy London: St Paul's Protesters 'Have No Grounds To Appeal' Eviction

Huffington Post UK/PA | Posted 22.04.2012 | UK

The Occupy London protesters based at St Paul's Cathedral have no right to appeal an eviction order granted last month, a judge has ruled. Three ju...

Occupy London: St Paul's Protesters Learn Eviction Decision

PA | Posted 22.02.2012 | UK

Anti-capitalist protesters camping outside St Paul's Cathedral will discover today if they can continue a legal fight for the right to stay. Protes...

The Fallacy of the Arab Spring

Dr Johan Franzén | Posted 20.04.2012 | UK Politics
Dr Johan Franzén

There was no Arab Spring - nor is there necessarily an Islamist Winter. Ongoing events in Syria, and recently across the Middle East, are the last in a long historic process of protest, opposition and revolution. But the outcome will not be democracy as we know it in the West.

In Defence of M.I.A - A 21st Century Icon

Tara McEvoy | Posted 13.04.2012 | Home
Tara McEvoy

M.I.A is a case study in contradictions, and has built a career on exploring the grey area - between the east and west, high and low taste, fear and stereotype. Arulpragasm may just be a high top-sporting, potty-mouthed Joan Baez for our generation.

Breast is Best

Caroline Argyropulo-Palmer | Posted 09.04.2012 | UK
Caroline Argyropulo-Palmer

Facebook's action puts photographs of breastfeeding in the same category as pornographic pictures. But breastfeeding is not a sexy thing to do. I have also never seen a woman try to sexualise it. They are discreetly feeding their child.

Hear No Evil, See No Evil: Google and Twitter's Free Society Is Crumbling

Jade Lane | Posted 04.04.2012 | UK Tech
Jade Lane

For better or worse, the notoriety of the internet stepped up a notch last year. Civil unrest was a common theme in the news - not just here in the UK, but throughout the world - the US had the Occupy movements, we had 'the riots' and of course, Arabic countries had the Arab Spring. The resounding driving force behind these events? Social networking.

Fan Handcuffs Himself To Goalpost During Premier League Match

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 01.02.2012 | UK

UPDATE: Merseyside Police said 46-year-old John Joseph Foley, of Lord Street, Southport, has been charged with going on to the playing area during a f...

Hunger Strike Speaks of Downward Spiral in Budapest

Rosie Scammell | Posted 25.03.2012 | UK
Rosie Scammell

A hunger strike sparked by one blurred face on national television has captured the wave of discontent spreading across Hungary, a country in the heart of Europe but far from the minds of its neighbours.

Occupy Exeter: Protesters Hit Out At Cathedral Authorities After Eviction Process Begins

PA | Posted 26.03.2012 | UK

Occupy protesters camping in the grounds of Exeter Cathedral have hit out at ecclesiastical authorities, questioning their Christian ethics as they ta...

Canvassing

Amy Dawson | Posted 24.03.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Amy Dawson

I'm ashamed to admit that I have never, ever taken part a protest. My mother once showed me a cluster of anti-apartheid badges, souvenirs of a youth s...

Protesters Mark 100 Days Of Occupy London

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 23.01.2012 | UK

Occupy London is marking 100 days since the first tents were pitched at its protest camp at St Paul's, as the group comes under criticism for putting ...

Dina Rickman

Protest - The New Age Of Politics, But How Can They Gain Power?

HuffingtonPost.com | Dina Rickman | Posted 22.01.2012 | UK Politics

As The Occupy St. Pauls Protesters expect to be evicted after losing their High Court battle, we look at the protest movement which gathered momentum ...

Occupy London: Protesters Appeal After Losing Bid To Keep Campsite At St Paul's

Huffington Post UK / PA | Posted 21.03.2012 | UK

One of the anti-capitalist protesters who lost their bid to stay camped outside St Paul's Cathedral has launched an appeal. An application for perm...

Doth the Student Protest Too Much?

Charlotte Lytton | Posted 19.03.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Charlotte Lytton

Students and protesting have always gone together like fish and chips, but recent heavy handedness is slowly damaging this age old tradition.

A Farmyard Fable: Occupy London

Marcus Moore | Posted 21.02.2012 | UK Politics
Marcus Moore

I have been following developments at the Occupy camp in London from the beginning, occasionally in person, more often as an observer. The story of th...

Shouting Down David Willetts

The Cambridge Union Society | Posted 23.01.2012 | UK Universities & Education
The Cambridge Union Society

David Willetts has an opinion on what the idea of the university is, but when he agreed to come and share this view at Cambridge University, he was denied the chance to speak. Within seconds of stepping up to the podium, Willetts was met with an angry mass counter-speech from Cambridge Defend Education.

Tories! Putting the 'N' in Cuts!

Scott Hill | Posted 19.03.2012 | UK Politics
Scott Hill

First and foremost in my argument is the simple, and accurate, assertion that the Tories are in fact hopeful that the unions will walk out and stage numerous protests over the coming months. These pension reforms have provided Cameron with a window of opportunity to finally finish what Margaret Thatcher started during her reign as Conservative leader.

Syria Still Cracking Down On Protests After Pledge To Arab League

Guardian | Posted 19.01.2012 | UK

Syrian troops have stormed a central town and a north-western region in search of regime opponents, activists said, a day after the government agreed ...

Fortnum And Mason Protesters Found Guilty

PA | Posted 17.11.2011 | UK

Ten protesters who occupied Fortnum and Mason during an anti-cuts demonstration earlier this year have been found guilty of aggravated trespass. Th...

Occupy London Protesters Vow To Fight Eviction

PA | Posted 16.01.2012 | UK

Anti-capitalist protesters who have been camped outside St Paul's Cathedral for a month must quit their tents or face High Court action. The City o...

If EDL Supporters Don't Have Free Speech, None of us do

Patrick Hayes | Posted 07.01.2012 | UK Politics
Patrick Hayes

I find it really striking that the joint attempt by police and the Crown Prosecution Service to slap an Anti Social Behaviour Order (ASBO) on English Defence League leader Stephen Lennon, which would effectively have prevented him from protesting with the group he founded, seems not to have aroused the concerns of liberals and civil liberties campaigners. Even those usually quick to man the barricades when similar attacks on people's freedoms take place.