• Labour’s Plans for a Four Day Working Week

    On the 23rd September 2019, at the Labour Party conference, John McDonnell, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, declared that, “the next Labour government will put in place the changes needed to reduce average full-time hours to 32 a week within the next decade.” This will be done as means...
  • You can’t Not(ts) Vote

    The 12th December 2019 is set to be the first December general election in 96 years and whilst some are enthused by their newly found power to elect MPs, many students are overwhelmed by the prospect of not knowing who to vote for and if whoever they choose will actually...
  • Theresa May is definitely a robot

    Only two days after the Conservative’s Annual Party conference, the new Blade Runner film (set in a dystopia populated by human-like robots) was released. Shockingly appropriate, it seems, as our country’s most prominent robot attempted to punch the right keys with the general public in a well written, empty...
  • IMPACT EXCLUSIVE: An Interview with Jeremy Corbyn

    Jeremy Corbyn, Leader of the Labour Party, has spoken exclusively to Impact during an event in Beeston.  Jeremy Corbyn was in Nottingham on Thursday 3rd November to attend a number of East Midlands Labour events, as well as to interact with locals and members of his party. ‘Rally with Jeremy...
  • “Young people get it, being part of something bigger”: Alan Johnson addresses EU referendum

    Chair of the ‘Labour In for Britain’ campaign, Alan Johnson MP, held a question and answer session today on University Park Campus to address the EU referendum. The hour-long event was organised by the University of Nottingham’s Students’ Union (SU) and Nottingham Students for Europe and was attended by...
  • UON MEDIA EXCLUSIVE with Jeremy Corbyn: “I wanted to do my best to say something different”

    On Thursday 11th February, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn visited the Frink Exhibition at Nottingham’s Lakeside Arts Centre before moving to deliver a speech for the University of Nottingham’s (UoN) Labour Society and general Labour supporters. After succeeding Ed Miliband and assuming party leadership in September 2015, Corbyn has sought...
  • Jeremy Corbyn: Republican, Republican’t.

    First, he refused to sing the National Anthem at the Battle of Britain Service. Now, Jeremy Corbyn has declined the invitation to attend the first meeting of the Privy Council in which he would have been sworn in by the Queen. Corbyn has previously directly disclosed his anti-monarchist views,...