Can you parallel park Harriet Harman’s Pink Bus? If you’re unsure of the answer, a trip to Sun Nation might help. The tabloid minisite – a spin-off from The Sun – features a host of politics-lite features and games, as the newspaper looks to boost clicks in the run-up to the election.

Young Brits are politically minded. 70% think social media should be used for social change, and a quarter are highly knowledgable about politics. Yet only 12% would definitely vote in a general election. Why are they so disillusioned? And is engaging via social media the answer?

In a bid to get Britain's young people down to the polling station, Channel 4 is hitting them where it hurts – the 8.7 million 16- to 34-year-olds that watch E4 will have to go without on election day. But will depriving Gen Y of their favourite channel be enough to get them to engage with politics?

In a partially scripted comedic interview with Hangover actor Zach Galifianakis, the US President cracked jokes about policies and plugged ObamaCare, to the tune of five million video views and a record number of referrals to the American healthcare service.