Ben Baruch

International Women’s Day has just passed, and it was beautiful. Somewhere, in the middle of their hectic schedules, my friends sat down and celebrated one another. Labour women, regardless of age, regardless of where they sat in the party, spoke about what they admired and saw in one another....

The Sun has set over Nottingham and across university campuses throughout Britain. Over the past few years, a number of prominent universities have banned the sale of The Sun newspaper and other controversial publications (including the Daily Mail and Daily Express) on campus, initiating debate regarding the quality, or existence...

University is a place for advanced learning. An important tenet of University life, however, is the opportunity for people of different races, nationalities and backgrounds to interact, share and debate ideas, and build relationships that last for years and even generations. At least, that was what it used to...

Sir Peter Mansfield died on 8th February 2017, having had an extremely successful scientific career. Starting as a printer’s assistant and being told science was not for him, Mansfield went on to graduate from Queen Mary’s College, University of London, with a BSc in Physics and went on to...

Chaotic seems like a criminally understated adjective for describing Britain’s process so far in leaving the European Union. Theresa May’s government has held its cards so tightly to its chest that for months Parliament and the public knew little more than ‘Brexit means Brexit’. To add to this, businesses...

It was noon on the 22nd of November when I first met Paul Nuttall. We were stood on a small grassy hill overlooking Dealey Plaza, people milled about busily. There was an excitement in the crisp air; it was unseasonably warm even for Texas, and a crowd seemed to...

Time named Donald Trump as their Person of the Year for 2016, in a sequence of events even more inevitable than the post-Brexit spike in hate crime. Here at Impact, Time’s leading competitor in the magazine industry, we have compiled our own shortlist of candidates more deserving of the title...