Jack Taylor

A new investigation by Impact has revealed that the one housemate who never puts the bins out for collection also thinks that Fairytale of New York by The Pogues isn’t that good a Christmas song. Finding time to comment in-between their busy schedule of doing absolutely nothing to help...

Chances are, you’ve heard the term snowflake creep into political commentary in recent months. Much like political correctness, it’s a term invented and used mainly by people on the right to disparagingly refer mainly to people on the left. Basically, a snowflake is someone who’s easily offended or overly...

Theresa May has gone to the country asking for a mandate. With Brexit dominating debate, she has argued that a stronger Tory government will offer stability in negotiations with Europe. But it’s easy to forget that there are other issues which the government must be held accountable for. May’s...

Winston Churchill famously said that democracy is the worst form of government, except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. And so it proved with the SU elections. With a little under 8000 votes cast in this year’s elections, a turnout of just 23.2%,...

Homelessness in the UK has risen 54% in the UK since 2010, and, according to the homeless charity Framework, rough sleeping in Nottingham has increased to its highest level in 20 years – hardly shocking to students who would have by now realised that it’s rare not to see...

Time named Donald Trump as their Person of the Year for 2016, in a sequence of events even more inevitable than the post-Brexit spike in hate crime. Here at Impact, Time’s leading competitor in the magazine industry, we have compiled our own shortlist of candidates more deserving of the title...

This week has seen the latest instalments in the government’s renewed attacks on our freedoms. The Digital Economy Bill and the Communications Data Bill, or Snoopers’ Charter, are both set to make significant steps towards becoming law. Both represent significant dents in our civil liberties. But these two bills...