• 8 ways to gift more ethically this Christmas

    Look for gifts made out of natural materials. Gifts made out of natural materials are a great alternative to plastic and other man-made substances. Mabboo.com uses sustainably sourced bamboo to make everything from boxers (yes, boxers made of bamboo!) to sunglasses to phone cases. Great gifts, especially for those...
  • The official diary of Bertie the Hallward cat

    It may surprise you to learn, humans of Nottingham, that there is an intelligence greater than your own surveying your every move. A dark and dangerous force moves in the shadowy underbelly of University Park, known to few but feared by all! Yes, from a secluded corner of campus...
  • Don’t Blame the Hooters Girls

    Nottingham: a great Anglo-Saxon settlement. A manufacturing powerhouse, an important historical site. Also, the proud owner of the only Hooters in the UK. I was quite confused when my friends suggested Hooters for lunch on the second day of their visit. I couldn’t imagine why any self-respecting, educated woman...
  • Nottingham welcomes Trump…not really

    He is beauty, he is grace. He’s a tyrannical sexist fatcat. And Nottingham has had Trump on the brain for quite a while now. But just what do we think of our American ‘friend’? “People of all ages seemed to be voicing their compassion for refugees and for women”...
  • Impact Magazine: Person of the Year 2016

    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...
  • Jo Ralphs: “Is May’s Premiership Closing the Gender Gap?”

    Starting an online search for Theresa May, you can’t help but feel sorry for our new Prime Minister. Though admittedly the search engine I was using was Bing, seeing the words ‘low cut top’ appear next to her name as the first search suggestion was more than a little depressing. In a...