Impact Comment

As Impact News recently reported, the average student will have drained their bank account by the time they reach the two-month mark. This fact will leave many shaking their heads in disapproval and putting this down entirely to the stereotypical financial irresponsibility of the student, but if we compare...

This week’s headlines depict UK-China relations reaching a “new height”. Chinese President Xi Jinping’s 5-day visit has been documented by a series of ingeniously choreographed photographs of handshakes with various politicians. By the looks of the slick smiles plastered on the faces of all involved, the trip’s purpose to...

Richard Branson recently came to blows with the UN after it made claims that it would launch a global policy for the decriminalisation of all drugs. Branson posted the controversial statement in his personal blog which appears on the Virgin Media website, and was subsequently picked up by the...

This Saturday junior doctors, other medical students and plenty of others will protest in Nottingham city centre against proposed changes to their working conditions. This follows a larger protest in London when 1,000 marched on Downing Street and another in Bristol which saw 1,500 turn out and traffic halted....

We all know the feeling. Those things you just cannot stand. They keep you awake at night. They make your skin crawl. They awake a hatred within you that you haven’t known since the checkout machine said there was an unexpected item in the baggage area. Go on, put...

It is rare nowadays that students leave university and land the job that they’ve always dreamed of. Most of us can empathise with this, dreading the daunting prospect of having to finally make it on our own in a world where jobs are becoming scarcer and degrees are becoming...

It may appear to onlookers that Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, is living the post-script to a modern fairy-tale: married into royalty, she has a young family alongside a rewarding public role (not to mention her much coveted wardrobe). But I wonder whether the millions of girls taught from...