• Politics in Fashion: Mrs Trump V. Mrs May

    When we think of politics, fashion isn’t necessarily the first thing that springs to mind. But like it or not, the fashion industry has always had the capacity for firm political grounding. PM Theresa May and FLOTUS Melania Trump are, arguably, the two of the most watched women in...
  • The (Non) Art of Common Sense?

    Donald Trump begins building an America that everybody can understand, but nobody can believe in. The cultural identity of America is changing. Theresa May’s assurances over American support for NATO being described as a political ‘win’ shows just how different the world’s expectations are when dealing with the US....
  • 30 Seconds Closer to Midnight

    When over 100,000 people were killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki over the course of three days by two separate explosions, it became clear that the horrors technology allowed us to unleash upon each other had escalated to a new level. The Second World War showed the world mechanised slaughter...
  • Impact Magazine: Person of the Year 2016

    Time named Donald Trump as their Person of the Year for 2016, in a sequence of events even more inevitable than the post-Brexit spike in hate crime. Here at Impact, Time’s leading competitor in the magazine industry, we have compiled our own shortlist of candidates more deserving of the title...
  • Former Chief of Staff to the U.S. Treasury talks Trump at UoN

    Emily Landis Walker, Former Chief of Staff to the US Secretary of the Treasury, Nicholas F. Brad, was invited by the Politics Society to speak to University of Nottingham students on the ‘Current State of American Politics’. Her opening statement was that it is “difficult to be an American in this...