Nick Scott

Last night, the candidates running in this year’s Student Leader Elections took their campaigners and their banners to Ocean, the spiritual home of the Nottingham student. We went along too, but while they sported hand-painted signs on the balconies, we asked University of Nottingham (UoN) students what they think about the SU elections, whether...

It’s been around for years, developed a cult following and one Impact editor has already hailed the establishment as “biblical”.  At this point, it’s a bit of an open secret so, unfortunately, this can’t be an exclusive. But it’s still massive news. Somewhere in the depths of Lenton, there...

After winning the constituency of Croydon Central by a mere 165 votes in the 2015 General Election, Housing Minister Gavin Barwell has every right to be happy. But a loss for his side in the EU Referendum and the departure of David Cameron, whose brand of Conservatism Gavin heartily...

Local MP Lilian Greenwood: “Brexit is having a chilling effect on our universities”. Having resigned from being Shadow Secretary of State for Transport after the EU referendum result, Lilian Greenwood is under no illusions of the problems facing not only Labour, but the UK as a whole. For her...

Local Labour MP Lilian Greenwood visited the University of Nottingham on Friday 14th October to give a talk titled “Labour after Brexit: can it ever win back power?”. The Labour Member of Parliament for Nottingham South, first elected in 2010, expressed little confidence in Jeremy Corbyn,“after a disastrous summer,...

After a close call in the summer, the NUS needs to show students it is getting its act together. Confession time. In the referendum on whether the University of Nottingham should disaffiliate from the National Union of Students, I voted leave; but no, I voted remain on June 23rd...

The end of the story or a new chapter: what next for UKIP? The moustache probably gave it away. In one of the more bizarre and quite frankly traumatic stories after Brexit, the acceptance Nigel Farage displayed when a dead ferret proceeded to curl up on his top lip...