• Are Physical Copies a Dying Format?

    When was the last time you saw someone read a book on the bus into campus? It’s probably not an impossible memory to recover but one that is slowly being overlaid by those consisting of people wearing headphones plugged into their iPhones, laptops, or reading on their Kindles. Here...
  • A Ghazal on Diversity

    To coincide with the release of our latest Print issue centring around Diversity, Joe presents us with a fantastic poem on the very same theme. Employing the traditional Arabic poet form of the ghazal, Joe explores the culture of mixed opinions in which we live today. A Ghazal on...
  • Look Out For… January

    The festive period may be over, but a new year means new films to look forward to, and January certainly doesn’t disappoint. If you’re a fan of network darling This Is Us, then its creator Dan Fogelman brings generational drama Life Itself – which, despite some lacklustre reviews does...
  • Creative Corner: The Little Things

    Merry Christmas! This festive season, we here at Impact have done our best to give you a festive-themed entertainment article a day for the 12 days up to and including Christmas Day. Now, as Christmas Day dawns, our festive articles come to an end, but here we hope to end...
  • Creative Corner: Santa’s Brother is Coming to Town

    Honestly, Christmas confuses me. I never quite understood how goodwill and festivity expresses itself in a garb of gluttonous feasting, expensive gifts nobody actually wanted, and sheets and sheets of fancy wrapping paper like the filled wallets of fat cat advertisers. But hey, you guys decided on this tradition...
  • What Makes Christmas Music ‘Christmassy’?

    I’d dread to be a sales assistant at this time of year. Listening to the same jovial twenty songs in a shift is enough to make anyone want to cut their ears off. When I do brave up and take my earplugs out whilst doing the Christmas shopping, I...
  • Best Christmas Songs of the 21st Century

    Modern Christmas music is considered by some (including myself) as perhaps of a lesser quality than the odes from the twentieth century, but they aren’t all bad. Sure, there are a lot of covers of classics, and it is true that lots of covers just haven’t got the magic...