The Battle for Apprenticeships Must Be Fought on Two Fronts
Raising awareness of apprenticeships should not just be limited to the confines of the classroom - it must be taken to employers directly. In today's globalized world, Britain's future prosperity lies...
View ArticleAnorexia Is Stealing Me
Trigger warning: anorexia People ask me what anorexia is like, "So do you just not like eating then?" Anorexia has stolen me, it's barely about food most of the time, of course food thoughts consume my...
View ArticleCalling for the Abolishment of Inheritance Tax
In 1986, the Inheritance Tax was introduced which replaced the capital transfer tax. In short, it is a tax levied on property and money acquired by gift or inheritance and is championed by the left...
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What makes good chocolate?
*Madeline Weeks [2014] is a Gates Cambridge scholar as an MPhil student in Geographical Research studying linkages between the production of shade-grown coffee and wellbeing of coffee farmers in...
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Ruby Tandoh Comes Out On Twitter... With A Little Help From Diana Ross
‘Great British Bake Off’ alumna Ruby Tandoh has come out to her Twitter followers, in arguably the best way possible. MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS: James Corden Was The Victim Of A Cruel (But Hilarious)...
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University of the Arts London Throw Party To Celebrate Vice Chancellors...
The vice Chancellor at UAL gets paid £100,000 more per year than the Prime Minister. Running the country is important and all, but clearly the UAL Vice chancellor Nigel Carrington thinks his job is...
View ArticleReasons Why You Should Never Buy An Easter Egg. Ever
Easter. For the non-believers amongst us, it's a bit of a meh time. Shops try to get us all excited, but, let's face it, it's no Christmas is it? One grossly overrated Easter item is the Easter egg. A...
View ArticleThe Top Five Blogs Of The Week On HuffPost UK Young Voices
There's a shed load of young writing talent out there, and we're very lucky to have some of those writers blogging for us at HuffPost UK Young Voices. And, without further ado, here are the five...
View ArticleShopping For Your Easter Roast Dinner: How Do The Supermarkets Compare?
Lamb, roast potatoes, mint sauce, and of course hot cross buns. That's pretty much our food shop for Easter Sunday. If you're strapped for cash and don't have time to shop around for the best deals,...
View ArticleThings We Don't Say About Voter Engagement
The Sort of Person Spending Their Time Reading Articles On 'Voter Engagement' Is Not the Sort Of Person Who Should Be. The two least trusted groups in society, according to the general public, are...
View ArticleWhy the Labour Party Is Facing an Existential Crisis in Its Own Backyard
The Labour Movement was born in Scotland. Keir Hardie was their leader: they fought for social justice, votes for women, home rule for India and many more noble causes. Hardie attacked the monarchy and...
View ArticleLabour Vows To Lower Voting Age To 16
More than 1.5m more people would be eligible to vote if the franchise was expanded to include 16 and 17-year-olds - enough to swing dozens of seats, Labour has claimed. The Opposition has pledged to...
View ArticleMore Young People Are Giving Up Their Dreams Of Owning A Home
More young people are giving up the dream of owning their own home, with high house prices and low incomes seen as strong barriers to getting on the property ladder, a report suggests. The proportion...
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Force Young People To Vote, Think Tank IPPR Urges
Young people should be forced to vote as soon as they turn 18, as it could "kick start the habit of a lifetime", a think tank has urged. The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) wants young...
View ArticleProfessor Lisa McElroy Sent An Email To Her Students With A Link To An Anal...
A professor is under investigation by her university after sending her students an email containing a link to an anal beads porn video. We're presuming Lisa McElroy didn't mean the underwear kind when...
View ArticleWhy I'm Not Involving Politicians in My Political Campaign
Whos-Bored.com is only interested in those bringing colour to our political culture! Watch above to see how we're 'sexing up' British politics! Three years ago, I was approached by an executive at a...
View ArticleOnline Learning - the Best Is Yet to Come
There was a time when international student exchanges, such as the famed Erasmus Programme run by the EU, were something that a majority thought would never catch on. Today more than three million...
View ArticleCreating Equal Opportunities for Film, Television and Games Careers
Careers in film, television and games remain popular choices for young people, but getting into these industries is notoriously difficult. Research by BAFTA in 2012 (Young, Bright and Under-Informed -...
View ArticleColouring Inside the Lines
We're Going on a Bear Hunt, The Hungry Caterpillar, colouring-in books, finger-printing, the sandbox... Oh to be little again. Well, actually, there's no need to magically transport yourself back to...
View ArticleThis Election's Lies Seek to Divide Us- Don't Let Them
Carl Jung once said that it was the insane that saw the world for what it was, and that the rest of us only kept our sanity by lying to ourselves, continually. This is apparently true with British...
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