Much of the current political discussion is dominated by economic matters and the election that offered little more than a limited array of bad, worse or truly awful outcomes. However, the course of education policy is worthy of a great deal of attention and tells us much about the prevailing ideology that grips the [...]

Plagiarism and academic fraud in Universities is an ever increasing problem. Universities have invested in the latest plagiarism detection software as well as employing new methods of submission, like Nottingham’s own “turnitin” system, to try and combat the issue, and to some extent they have had some success: Figures reported on the Impact website in [...]

Ask most people what they know about Polish cinema and you are likely to hear only one name: Roman Polanski. Yet, Polish film has a rich heritage and two directors in particular are well worth exploring.
Andrzej Wajda burst onto the scene and broke the dour socialist realism mould in 1954 with Generation, a gritty [...]

Gold: the chemical element with the atomic number 79, the precious metal used for jewellery… And the colour which sends third years into a frenzy in the final weeks of their three-year holiday. The Gold Rush; a phenomenon which engulfs the country’s student population sending sex drives off the scale and competitive spirits into [...]

With the end of my degree approaching and the prospect of a journalism course to follow, it seems I have reached a crossroads in my life; it’s finally time to complete the transformation into fully-fledged adult. It’s time to replace Neighbours with The Archers, Heat with the Spectator and orange squash with cappuccinos. As I [...]

Live frogs, in an art gallery! Yes, Nottingham Contemporary has become home to five albino African clawed frogs. The frogs are unknowing participants of the ‘Uneven Geographies’ exhibition, which exposes the detrimental impact of globalisation on the world.
Éduardo Abaroa’s amphibious art is representative of the imperialist colonisation of language, where one dominant culture [...]

Lahore city rises in the dust, kites soar in the air, at one moment ominously circling as if vultures above a corpse, the next diving with delightfully majestic ease. This juxtaposition perfectly encapsulates the experience I had of Pakistan. Here, poverty literally lives in the shadow of wealth; families crowd under a stretch of tarpaulin [...]

Ethics and morality are peculiar without God
It is not hard to find two people with differing views on what is right and wrong. Perhaps it may only be in trivial matters, such as dinnertime etiquette or why it’s immoral to support Manchester United. But what if the issues at hand are more serious, such as [...]

The Style Shoot for Issue 204

Photography - Bruno Albutt
Model - Katie Sailsbury
Stylists - Paul Barlow, Grace Gordon
Assistant Stylists - Jasmin Watts, Charlotte Gelipter, Alex Griffiths
Photography Assistant - Matt Turner
Digital Editing - Leon Jacob

As the last few weeks of university come to pass, it occurs to me that there are many things I have wanted to discuss when it comes to my experiences with film in the last three years. Just as most people will say that their time at university has seemingly passed far too quickly, alas, [...]

As football fans worldwide prepare themselves for the biggest competition of all, I feel myself somewhat disappointed as I reflect on the recently completed Premier League season. Though we have seen Chelsea prevent Manchester United’s fourth successive title, Tottenham Hotspur’s break into the supposed ‘Big Four’ and Fulham reach the Europa League final, as I [...]

It was an election that ended in disarray; it became the result that everyone had feared. The first hung parliament in the UK since 1874 had been heralded as a disaster in the making and it was evident very few people seemed enthused with the concept before the results came in and converted theory into [...]

After months of qualifiers, rainy evenings at the Reebok and shitting ourselves every time Rooney looks a bit queasy, South Africa 2010 is all but upon us. Tickets have been booked, pubs readied and 3D-glasses dusted-off for the first time since 1984, and I, for one, am more than a little bit excited. This joyous [...]

After a season of highs and lows from across the sports, Impact looks at the ‘alternative’ awards for 2009/10.
The ‘It wouldn’t happen in Rugby’ Award
Didier Drogba
You know the type: they always moan about how overpaid footballers are and compare their prima donna attitudes to that of their ‘gentlemen’ rugby players. You try to defend the [...]