• Police Officer Martyn Blake acquitted of the murder of Chris Kaba

    On the morning of the 12th of August 2011, Londoners awoke to the smell of smoke. The streets were filled with carcasses of what used to be cars. Shop windows were smashed; their contents having been looted the night before. The palpable feeling of chaos remained in the air,...
  • Mexico’s Second Epidemic – Femicide

    Whilst social, political and economic discourses across the globe have, for the past year, been dominated by discussions of coronavirus, other vital topics have resultantly been overlooked. Latin America has suffered from high femicide levels since the 1990s, but in recent years, these have become unprecedented with femicide rates...
  • Rehabilitation Vs. Retribution: Justice For PC Andrew Harper

    PC Andrew Harper was killed on August 15, 2019 near Berkshire while at the site of a reported burglary. Three teenage boys, ?Henry Long, Jessie Cole and Albert Bowers (all 18-19 year olds) were charged with manslaughter in July 2020. In light of allegations of PC Harper having been...
  • Can you murder a robot?

    Well, can you? A recent BBC article has speculated on the topic. It reported on the tragic murder of the aptly named Hitchbot (a hitchhiking robot), which was found with its arms and legs ripped off and it’s head nowhere to be seen. The Hitchbot, remarkably, was built to...
  • Scrapbook – Fluffy Bunnies

    Easter may have been and gone, but we all still need some fluffy bunnies in our lives! Even if those bunnies are sometimes a bit… well… unusual. Read on for Impact’s compilation of their favourite fluffy (and/or morbid/terrifying) bunnies from pop culture… Suicide Bunnies Cute, small, and fluffy, these...
  • And Then There Were None @ Nottingham New Theatre

    The expectations given with any Agatha Christie-based plot, when concerning the mystery genre, will always be notably high. The expectations for arguably her most popular work And Then There Were None are no different. A plot strewn with mystery, murder and remarkable precision for detail has never failed to...