• A white wall with a Black Balenciaga sign

    Balenciaga: Style or Scandal?

    Jamey Heron-Waterhouse Recently, Balenciaga released their new holiday ad campaign, featuring children styled with bears wearing bondage gear, empty wine glasses, and other disturbing objects. The brand came under scrutiny for the inappropriateness of their ad and many social media commentators deemed the brand to be promoting paedophilia and...
  • Are We Turning A Blind Eye And Becoming Desensitised To Conflict?

    One of the first things we do every day is check our social media, where we are faced with the latest ‘breaking news’, often a barrage of negativity - conflict, the rising coronavirus death toll, natural disasters, terrorist attacks, school shootings and violence against peaceful protests – a sensory...
  • Guilty Until Proven Innocent

    It was a modern-day scandal - a WAG war like no other. Having gripped the nation, nay, the world, the spat that rechristened Coleen Rooney as ‘Wagatha Christie’ has been covered in the New York Times, Time Magazine, and on the BBC. It has been discussed by stars from...
  • #ShameOnYouWarwick

    Breaking – Warwick university has confirmed that students banned over rape threats will stay banned To understand the #ShameOnYouWarwick scandal from start to what will hopefully mark the beginning of the end, Impact takes a look at the group chat scandal of last year and the repercussions and effects...
  • Impact investigates the Panama Papers scandal

    The largest media collaboration ever undertaken has revealed the biggest financial information leak recorded in history. Containing 2.6 terabytes of data, it accounts for files that exceed over one thousand times the content released during the Wikileaks scandal of 2010. Amrit Santos attempts to provide a brief guide of the...
  • How do we solve a problem like a whistleblower?

    From Edward Snowdon to Julian Assange, whistleblowers have been villified throughout the Western World. A whistleblower is a person who exposes misconduct, failing, alleged dishonest or illegal activity occurring in an organisation. Some may think whistleblowers would be accepted and actively encouraged, but the recent NHS whistleblowing scandal only...