• My Spotify Wrapped: pov: indie

    Tabitha Smith Impact’s Tabitha Smith writes a rundown for her 2023 Spotify Wrapped, a day she has been waiting for all year. With a wide range of artists and genres to celebrate, we look back on a fantastic year of indie anthems, discovering new favourites, and unhealthy obsessions with...
  • The Problematic Nature of Love Triangles in Media

    Abigel Lancaster Love triangles are one of the most popular and yet most divisive tropes used in media today. We’re all familiar with the general idea – one character, often a woman, forced to choose between two love interests. This is by no means a new idea – the...
  • Interview: Briston Maroney

    Tabitha Smith  Briston Maroney’s sophomore album ‘Ultrapure’ is the ultimate autumnal soundtrack, with poignant, hard-hitting lyricism for those who want to feel a little deeper this November. Impact’s Tabitha Smith sat down with Briston Maroney ahead of his Rescue Rooms show to talk all about the album, the tour...
  • Interview: Will Young

    Impact’s Amelia Brookes got the opportunity to speak with pop star Will Young about his petition to ban animal testing. They spoke about why he first started getting involved with the cause, the support the petition has had already and how others can get involved....
  • November Book of the Month – All the Broken Places

    Anna Boyne Sixteen years after the publication of his heart-wrenching novel ‘The Boy in StripedPyjamas’, John Boyne returns to ‘Out-With’ with a new, equally compelling perspective.  Told this time from the perspective of Gretel, Bruno’s older sister, John Boyne guidesreaders through her lifetime of struggling to reconcile with the...
  • Spotify Wrapped 2023

    It’s that time of year again, Spotify Wrapped season. With the 2023 wrap-up having just come out on 29th of November, Impact’s Kira O’Boyle gives a rundown on what stats you can expect from your Wrapped, its new DJ feature and the impact Wrapped has had on social media....
  • British Government building view

    Backlash as Suella Braverman says sleeping rough is ‘a lifestyle choice’ – What does this mean for media regulation?

    Hope Gallagher Suella Braverman, the now former British Home Secretary, in an X-post, where she called for new measures and restrictions on the number of tents for the homeless nationally across the UK. Her comments also included legislation barring charities from providing extra tents to the homeless, stating that...