• The Impact Features Horoscope: Christmas Edition

    Horoscopes and Christmas, two of the most exciting things ever, wrapped together perfectly, with a bow on the top, in one single Impact Features article. Holly Wilson is back with your festive fortunes with a brilliant Christmas food twist. Aries (March 21- April 19): Pigs In Blankets You’re working...
  • Rhys’ Musical Christmas List – Part I

    There are certain methods many of us go through when transitioning over to the cheeriest holiday of the year. Here at Impact, we want to help with a small count down of some of the best songs around as you become the most jolly/emotionallyintouchwithChristmas as you can be! 12....
  • Twelve bits of Christmas politics

    The Grinch Who Stole Your Internet Freedom: net neutrality in the US and how it affects us. This phrase, coined by Columbia professor Tim Wu in 2003, is the idea that – funnily enough – all internet providers and governments should treat all data equally: basically, no-one should switch up...
  • REVEALED: housemate who never takes out bins hates Fairytale of New York

    A new investigation by Impact has revealed that the one housemate who never puts the bins out for collection also thinks that Fairytale of New York by The Pogues isn’t that good a Christmas song. Finding time to comment in-between their busy schedule of doing absolutely nothing to help...
  • Yes, we KNOW it’s Christmas time right now  

    Now that I’ve grabbed your attention with my dismal attempt at making a pun on one of the most annoying Christmas songs to have ever existed (for a good cause, I remind myself), let’s get started, shall we? Christmas music – yay or nay? Admittedly, when you’re still reeling...
  • Carols and Carousels

    For the past few weeks I’ve been getting increasingly more and more into the festive mood, culminating yesterday whilst loudly singing Christmas songs and writing an essay. I may have just submitted Mariah Carey lyrics on Turnitin, but I don’t care, it’s Christmas! “It is: So. Dang. Festive.” The...
  • Witness for the Prosecution: Gripping or Gruesome?

    After the success of last year’s adaptation of And Then There Were None, this time the BBC has taken on another of Agatha Christie’s impressive murder mysteries, and created a stunning television two-parter. Beware spoilers. The story follows the trial of Leonard Vole (Billy Howle) for the murder of...