• Prime minister Keir Starmer surrounded by public service workers

    Scapegoats won’t save the NHS

    Tom Hayward A year on from the sentencing of Valdo Calocane, the perpetrator of the 2023 Nottingham attacks, a debate over accountability continues to rage. Yet despite a push to identify specific individuals at fault, a picture has emerged of deeper flaws in our public services. With the recent...
  • UoNSU Elects ’25 – Manifesto Reviews: VP Welfare & Liberation Candidates

    Leacsaidh Marlow                                         A group of Impact Magazine writers have looked over the candidate manifestos for this year’s Student Union Elections. Our team of elections reporters interviewed every candidate who...
  • Is it possible to separate the art from the artist?

    Ella Koeppern The question of whether one can separate the art from the artist has long been a subject of debate, particularly in an era where past and present actions of creators are scrutinised more than ever. Can art be seen as an independent entity, capable of standing on...
  • LA wildfires

    Players responsible for the failure to mitigate horrific LA fires

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  • The Hollywood Sign

    Nepo Babies: The New Female-Dominated Field?

    Emma Burnett Nepotism has brought us the new generation of Hollywood, where old-timers have taken the backseat and let their offspring take the spotlight. With superstars such as Zooey Deschanel, Dakota Johnson, Emma Roberts and Lily Collins riding the gravy train to fame, it’s a challenge to find anyone...
  • Fatal Attraction: Are We Romanticising Serial Killers?

    Georgina Mumford  If you know anything about Ted Bundy (and likely you do, given his recent renaissance in popular media), you might have heard that he had fans. These were the women who gathered outside the courthouse like groupies during his trial, sent him illicit photographs of themselves during...
  • The European Flag swaying in the wind

    The Rise of Right-Wing Populist Parties in Europe 

    Josie Nasmyth-Miller (Trigger warning:  homophobia, racism, xenophobia, & misogyny)   In A Single Man, Colin Firth encapsulates the surging cause for support of the Far-Right European movement. That cause was fear and that the cause was imagined. This article will give a brief summary of the growing normalisation of...