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Through Their Eyes: Impact investigates the plight of young refugees

In 2002, the Ay family, Kurdish asylum seekers from Turkey, were imprisoned in a British detention centre for 13 months. Four of the detainees were children whose ages ranged from 7 to 13 and in January 2012, the Ay’s were compensated for their incarceration with a six-figure payout.…

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Thursday 16th February 2012

City Boy: Get Rich or Die Trying

In the future, children will sit down in history lessons and be taught about the dramatic global events of last year. 2011 will be regarded as the year when the globe exploded in a cacophony of famine, revolution and recession. As tents and banners appear in the centre…

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Thursday 16th February 2012

Blame it on the Alcohol

For the modern student, little attention is paid to the backstage of Nottingham’s night scene. Sifting through the layers of its various power structures, it is sometimes hard to pinpoint the forces that shape our nights out in Nottingham as we know them. The crux of the whole…

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Wednesday 15th February 2012

Impact’s Guide to Sleep

Recent studies have shown that 73% of students suffer at some point with a sleep disorder. These problems include not being able to sleep, not feeling fully rested and in extreme cases, sleepwalking. Now exams are well and truly over, Impact is here to help you ease back…

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Tuesday 14th February 2012

Column – In Defence of Berlusconi

Maligned for his tactlessness, his womanising and his corrupting influence, yet still defended to the hilt by his supporters, former Italian prime minister Berlusconi was perhaps the ultimate love-hate figure in Italian politics. Indeed, the Milanese billionaire in many ways epitomised the spirit of the Bel Paese: its…

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Tuesday 14th February 2012

Valentine’s: “I do” or “I don’t”?

Happy Valentine’s! Groan? Yes, we all know the two sides of that V shaped-fence. (Which, incidentally, wouldn’t make a very good fence.) Some people love Valentine’s; it’s a time to show you care, there’s nothing wrong with romance, etc. etc. Others are stalwartly against it, citing the millions that…

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Sunday 12th February 2012

An Aid Worker “Living Through History”

Less than one week after his return from Afghanistan, Impact spoke to Henry Gray, an emergency co-ordinator working for the humanitarian medical aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), or Doctors Without Borders. He recounts for us his experiences of working with one of the most prominent international aid…

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Saturday 11th February 2012

Should the veil be banned at University?

At the beginning of this academic year, the full face veil was banned in universities in Tunisia.  When the University of Sousse, 140km south of Tunis, refused to enrol one woman who was wearing the niqab, 200 people stormed the building in protest, carrying banners demanding the students’…

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Thursday 9th February 2012

The Problem with HuStu

As any student will tell you, every hall has its reputation. And as any young lady from Rutland will tell you, some are more salacious than others. For many in their first year, ‘hall life’ is synonymous with ‘university life’. But it seems wherever you end up, the…

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Wednesday 8th February 2012

The Big Question: Are comediennes as funny as their male counterparts?

Yes Never known to mince words or resort to anodyne sensitivities, the late, great Christopher Hitchens infamously proclaimed in 2007 that women are “not funny”, never were, and never will be. Putatively, women are evolutionary programmed to be receptive to humour in men, but generally lack such facilities…

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