politics

On the 13th November 2015, Paris was rocked by four interlinked terrorist attacks on theatres, restaurants and the Stade de France, killing more than 120 people and injuring around 200. Due to today’s use of online media, within minutes of the attacks, stories broke, with hundreds of people commenting...

Benjamin Everest investigates the popularity of Jeremy Corbyn for Impact Features. Only months into the job, what is the reputation of the Leader of the Opposition here at the University of Nottingham? With his election to leadership of the Labour party, and his first month in that role, Jeremy Corbyn’s popularity...

The recent election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party has sparked one of the largest scale political debates we’ve seen all summer. Across the social media battle ground, shots have been fired, quite literally, left, right and center. Impact Comment reviews the oh so wide ranging opinions...

The 2015 summer budget has been revealed by Chancellor George Osborne. Among measures for Health and Education, the Conservative government announced that maintenance grants for students from low income families will be replaced by loans from September 2016. The maintenance loan will be £8,200 a year. Addressing the reform, he stated there...

Privatisation, as a word and a concept, is saturated with ideological tension and negative connotations. There is no wonder that we struggle to understand what it actually means. It has been wielded by the left of politics to convey everything apparently capitalist and greedy about the Conservative and other...

Maintenance grants for students from low income families could be cut to provide savings for the Department for Business. Plans to phase out the grants were first drawn up in 2013, but Nick Clegg, ex-Deputy Prime Minister, blocked the proposal. Now it is understood that ministers are reconsidering the idea...

Jeremy Clarkson is no politician, but he certainly acts like one. His media exposure allows him to campaign vociferously and eloquently, like a Daily Mail-endorsed middle finger stuck up at the Left, the Environment, and anything containing the words “health” and “safety”. And with over 1,000,000 signatories to the...