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The Queen's New Coin Portrait: Alternative Designs For A 21st Century Monarch
To commemorate a new portrait of The Queen being released for UK coins, The Huffington Post UK has commissioned six young designers to create their own vision of The Queen's coin portrait for the 21st...
View ArticleLeeds Student Running For Education Officer Gives Musical Masterclass With...
It's that time of year again! Student union sabbatical elections are upon us, and with them bring the candidates desperate to impress their campus classmates with baked goods, flashmobs and cringey...
View Article'Sickening' and 'Racist' Taunts To Sikh Child By His Classmates On Schoolbus...
Shocking footage has emerged which appears to show a child being subjected to racist bullying from classmates on his schoolbus. The boy, who described himself as a Sikh, films an encounter with other...
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No Safe Space for Dissent: Iran Continues Crackdown on Student Activists
Atena Faraghdani was arrested in September. An Iranian Artist, Student and Civil Rights Activist, Atena was summoned to court on 10th January to face charges of 'propaganda against the regime,...
View ArticleWestminster University Accused Of 'Appalling' Security After Two Incidents On...
Westminster University has been accused of offering "appalling" protection to their students after two incidents on campus left Muslim undergraduates shaken. The Huffington Post UK understands a man...
View ArticleYoung Entrepreneurs Of The Week: Meet The Team Behind Space Lounges
Ever had a bad experience in a coffee shop? Maybe the atmosphere was comparable to a funeral procession, or perhaps you were served a lukewarm black coffee, instead of the "Venti iced skinny hazelnut...
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Teenager Charles Mann Cut Off Own Penis And Stabbed Mother 11 Times While...
A naked teenager stabbed his mother 11 times and reportedly cut off his own penis during a binge on the drug meow meow. Charles Mann shouted: “This is the prophecy. I love you but this is a prophecy,”...
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Teach and Get a Tan
I started by pitching a volunteer opportunity, 'You can change her life and become a surrogate parent.' It always makes me cringe to make lots of cliché promises about volunteering to groups of...
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Universities Are Gearing Up For Student Elections - So What Should You Expect?
Democracy, as made famous by the Scottish Referendum, is seen as a spell that sparks vast swathes of a population into taking meaningful political action. On university campuses, however, democracy is...
View ArticleWe Day: Young People Leading the Social Action Movement of Our Time
It's been a big year for young people in the UK. Last March, 12,000 students packed the SSE Arena in Wembley and committed to being change makers in their communities and the world. At the inaugural We...
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UK Household Incomes Are Back To Pre-Recession Levels - But Under 30s Have...
Average household incomes are back to the levels they were at before the financial downturn struck, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has found, but young people have seen their incomes drop...
View ArticleWant to Win an Election? Talk to Us Not About Us
On Wednesday we, the British Youth Council (representing over 250 youth organisations) launch our new online manifesto video to highlight the top five issues young people in our membership care about:...
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Eli Felson Made A Snapchat CV To Apply For A Job At Snapchat
A resourceful job-hunter has applied for a position at Snapchat with a video CV filmed entirely on the app. Elski Felson, who goes by the nickname Eli, was eight months into his job search when he got...
View ArticleDon't Fight One Phobia With Another
Last week, I became aware of a petition that was being circulated by students from the University of Westminster to ban homophobic and pro-FGM speaker Sheikh Haitham Al-Haddad from speaking. Al-Haddad...
View ArticleLiving With Binge Eating Disorder
This week, Monday 23 February to Sunday 1 March, marks Eating Disorder Awareness Week. Sadly there's still a lot of ignorance shrouding eating disorder understanding, with pervasive myths about the...
View ArticleHow to Empower Men and Women to Say No to Rape Culture
Layla met Will on a night out. He seemed nice and mentioned they had lots of friends in common. "I had seen him out before but never really talked to him properly," Layla said. "He was acting normally...
View ArticleDon't Be Fooled - The Conservatives Are Not the LGBT-Friendly Party They...
Last week, Ivan Massow, a potential Conservative candidate for the London mayoral election, made headlines by claiming that many gay men "may not realise" that they are secretly Tory. Of course, he's...
View ArticleIs the Gimmockracy of Student Politics An Apocalyptic Vision of the Future of...
There are some things in life we can rely on. The seasons, for example, or the inevitable tragic decline of Miley Cyrus. Another thing we can depend on is the early spring bombardment of your...
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Britain's Problem With Islam
Modern Britain has a problem with Islam. This may not come as much of a surprise to some readers. For many in Britain, Islam is considered an isolating force, and its followers are somehow externalised...
View ArticleConfessions of an Eco-Villain
I grabbed my carton of orange juice from the fridge, poured it into a glass and took the empty over to the bins. Glancing over, the recycling bin was full and over-flowing. The non-recycling bin,...
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