The current election campaign will be marked by character assassinations, while the Britain of food banks, zero-hours, in-work poverty, housing crisis, job insecurity and young people facing a future bleaker than their parents will not be given the hearing it deserves.
Militants kidnapped two parliamentary candidates and 18 election workers ahead of today's parliamentary elections in Afghanistan in the latest sign that the vote will be marked by bloodshed and intimidation.
People fear their ID cards will be marked when they go for election.
"The coming months will be marked by preparations for parliamentary elections," the government said on its Web site.
And it will be the political events that occur between now and the election that will determine whether the president's second term will be marked by the loss of yet another Senate leadership post.
This year will be marked by illustrations.
Those files will be marked.
Your emails will be marked as "Done".
The BBC put together a decision tree to explain what will happen if no party gets to three twenty-six: one of the boxes is marked, "A fresh election will be called".
