• Immediate reactions to Corbyn’s victory

    The recent election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party has sparked one of the largest scale political debates we’ve seen all summer. Across the social media battle ground, shots have been fired, quite literally, left, right and center. Impact Comment reviews the oh so wide ranging opinions...
  • Exclusive video: Students taught graphic chant in Freshers’ Week

    Warning: contains explicit language. A video depicting first year students at the University of Nottingham engaging in an explicit chant has recently surfaced. The chant features descriptions of necrophilia and violence, and can be heard being shouted by students from Cavendish Hall. “We were taught this chant by the...
  • Only eleven countries are not involved in global conflict: World War III

    “Humanity needs to weep, and this is the time to weep,” declared Pope Francis at a World War I commemoration service last week. He described how “even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes,...
  • Scottish Independence: A Nottingham Perspective

    Yes or No? It’s been the question on every Englishman and Scotsman’s lips these past few weeks. I am talking about the minority campaign that has become a mainstream debate. It has inspired impassioned arguments, mobilised a united scurry of Westminster politicians, even managed to piss off the Spanish...
  • The soul of student experience

    I was reading some stale and crusted old newspapers and magazines whilst on a Great British holiday the other week (and yes it was raining as you suspected). An article in the Guardian about a new indie duo caught my eye. Not because I thought listening to their music...
  • Changing profile pictures or lives? The dark depths of voluntourism…

    I’m sorry, but I’m taking a stand. I have categorically, absolutely, wholeheartedly had enough of so called ‘voluntourism’. Like many a modern day phenomena, it expresses itself through social media, and this is where one becomes alerted to the mass exodus each summer of university undergraduates on such stints....