• Impact Visits Hockley Hustle Festival 2023

    Alicia Lacey On the 22nd October, the annual Hockley Hustle festival welcomed the Nottingham community to celebrate some of the best local talent in the city. Spanning various live music venues across the city, Impact went along to the event to explore some up and coming artists. Impact’s Alicia...
  • Celebrating Nottingham’s Creative Side – Hockley Hustle Festival is Back!

    Alicia Lacey With a lineup of 350 outstanding performers, Nottingham’s Hockley Hustle is back to honour the diverse talent of local musicians and artists on Sunday 22nd October 2023. Hockley Hustle has been raising money for local charities such as Emmanuel House and Base 51 since 2006 – this...
  • Boris Johnson Steps Down As MP with Immediate Effect

    Hannah Walton-Hughes On Friday 9 June, former Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that he would be stepping down as a Member of Parliament immediately. The following week, the damning Privileges Committee report came out. Impact’s Hannah Walton-Hughes reports. The resignation announcement came after Mr. Johnson received the report from...
  • Jacob Rees-Mogg Accuses PM Of Breaking His Word Over Scrapped EU Law Deadline

    Senior Tory backbenchers, including the former Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg MP, have expressed unhappiness with the government’s decision to remove the deadline for eliminating thousands of EU laws. Rees-Mogg believes that, by scrapping the laws, inflation would come down and the U.K.’s competitiveness would improve. Impact’s Hannah Walton-Hughes reports....
  • Eurovision 2023: Dancing with Politics?

    Singer Loreen led Sweden to win the 67th Eurovision contest in a wild Liverpool Arena. The win puts Sweden joint with Ireland at a record seven Eurovision victories, and Loreen herself becomes the first woman to win twice. However, as usual, politics finds a way to inject itself and...
  • Houses of Parliament and Big Ben

    Liz Truss Breaks her 3-month Silence

    Hannah Walton-Hughes After 3 months of silence, Britain’s shortest-serving Prime Minister has decided to give her side of the story, through a 4000-word essay published in The Sunday Telegraph, and a 50-minute interview by The Spectator. Impact’s Hannah Walton-Hughes reports on the key points raised in both. “I assumed...
  • Reflecting back on the 2022/23 SU officer’s time in their positions, so far

    As current officers' time in their positions draws to a close, Impact’s Olivia Hughes reflects on the highlights of their achievements and looks to what has really been done in the SU over the past year....