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The Hidden Crisis

To most people, the word ‘homeless’ conjures up an image of a bearded and bedraggled old man with a flea-bitten dog, huddled in a shop doorway. However, a large proportion of homeless people are not in fact sleeping rough; thousands of people in the UK are ‘statutory homeless’: living in temporary accommodation, sleeping on friend’s [...]
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‘Classic’ Chicane taking new directions

Impact sits down with Nick Bracegirdle from popular dance act Chicane.
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Facebook’s privacy crisis

Facebook is in trouble. Over the last two weeks, concern about the complexity of its privacy controls has led to a minor panic in the media. Suddenly, the website that has become the cornerstone of our social infrastructure has been branded as a runaway corporate behemoth. Its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, is drunk on “dreams of [...]
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Mackay Secures Equal Opps and Welfare

Katie Mackay has finally secured the position of Equal Opportunities and Welfare Officer, winning over 800 votes in the by-election held over the past week.

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Broxtowe and Sherwood captured while Labour holds City Centre

Only a pocket of Labour seats remains in Nottingham following a Conservative gain of 92 seats in England in Thursday’s General Election - a local result predicted by a poll conducted by the Nottingham Evening Post in conjunction with Impact in the weekend preceding the vote.

The Real Inspector Hound @ The New Theatre

As the spring season returns after its Easter hiatus, The Real Inspector Hound graces the New Theatre stage. This play is an incredibly entertaining foray into the world of the amateur whodunit and snobbish theatre critics, but one that left this critic strangely unsatisfied.
The play, a play within a play, follows two theatre critics, Moon [...]

Chalom pulls out of By-Election

Wayne Chalom has pulled out of the Equal Opportunities and Welfare Officer By-Election, Impact reveals.
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An Interview with Armando Iannucci

“Twitter took over with the #nickcleggsfault thing, and it was kind of interesting seeing how the standard electoral weapons, like front pages or indeed pollsters, have now become outmoded.”
Armando Iannucci is discussing his new role as unofficial Twitter election commentator. Away from the hustle and bustle of London, we are in the foyer of the [...]
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Lenton’s Law

“Shottingham.” You’d heard the rumours before you arrived in Nottingham, but you’ve probably learnt by now that gun crime isn’t generally the main issue that we have to contend with whilst living here. Lenton is teeming with students and almost every house has laptops, televisions, cameras and mobile phones in abundance, making it the perfect [...]
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Four Lions Review

So here we have it, the long awaited Chris Morris directorial debut, Four Lions. For those of you familiar with his work (Brass Eye, Nathan Barley) the subject matter won’t surprise you. The film follows four British jihadi bombers in Doncaster as they plot a terror attack on London. There are actually five of them, [...]
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