• Girl Playing

    ‘Girl Dinner’ and The Aesthetics of Womanhood

    Emma Alyana Collins At seven, I would pass the time by watching my mother prepare dinner. She would be curled over the kitchen counter, with a large-sharpened knife in her hand, slicing onions and smashing garlic. She would never let me handle the knife – I was too young....
  • US Congress

    How Kevin McCarthy’s ousting represents an identity crisis within the Republican Party

    On October 3, 2023, the US House of Representatives voted to remove Kevin McCarthy, after US Representative of Florida Matt Gaetz filed a motion to vacate the Chair, which marked the first time in American History that a US Speaker was removed from the Speakership by a motion to...
  • The Battle of Hastings: Uncovering Harold II’s True Fate

    Thomas Martin With the 14th October marking the 957th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, this period provides a time for historical reflection on the events that took place on Senlac Hill, and deliberation over the fate of Harold II.  Thomas Martin, rejects the accepted narrative of Harold’s II’s...
  • law weighing scales

    The Problem of Social Immobility in Law: Can it Be Solved?

    Spencer Creamore When the time came for me to write down the five universities that I most liked the look of onto the UCAS form, I already knew exactly where I wanted to study: the University of Nottingham. Not only had my brother studied there and had had an...
  • A lecture room full of empty seats

    What I’d tell my First Year Self: Settling into Uni

    University can be quite an uncertain and scary prospect for students coming out of a protected environment, such as school. Not only do students have to continue focusing and working towards academic achievement, but also learn to become completely independent, often in a new town/city surrounded by completely new...
  • Just a call away – Introducing Nottingham Nightline

    When I first came to the University of Nottingham three years ago now (2021, which somehow feels only yesterday), and I had no set plans on what kinds of groups I’d like to be involved with. However, the world of societies was one I’d already done vast amounts of...
  • Nuclear Power Plant

    Fukushima Waters: A Pawn in China’s Struggle for Dominance

    Katharina Sharma Recently, the Japanese government made the decision to release contaminated radioactive water from the Fukushima Daichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean. This comes after the UN Nuclear Watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) gave the approval to the Japanese government to release the water....