impact magazine

Summer Revely When you think about a night out, what strikes you as the fun parts? You’ll usually think of the getting ready during pre’s, your go-to bar order, the feeling of your favourite club classic blasting through the speakers, and the takeaway at the end of the night...

Iona Parsons Sex And The City is a TV show that I will always hold close to my heart, having binged the show with my housemates a couple of years ago. Set in New York City in the late 90s / early 2000s, it follows the chaotic lives of...

Rachel Cox In 1981, a terrifying and mysterious epidemic swept through the US and, inevitably, the UK. By the end of the year, hundreds of seemingly healthy, gay, young men were dying of rare diseases like Kaposi’s sarcoma and Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia (PCP). Termed the ‘gay plague’, the AIDs...

Rachel Cox It is Sunday evening, and you’ve spent all weekend working on that two-thousand-word essay with its endless list of references and fast approaching deadline. You aren’t even halfway. Dirty plates are piling up around you, and your fridge is slowly becoming bare. Although the list of things...

Rayyah Uddin  If you’ve ever screamed during a horror movie, only to immediately laugh and claim that ”you knew that jump-scare was coming”, then congratulations: you’ve experienced one of psychology’s most delightful contradictions. Humans, for reasons scientists are still debating, love to scare themselves. Not always, of course –...

Rayyah Uddin Once upon a time, you walked into your wardrobe, dodged an avalanche of hangers, before declaring: ”I have nothing to wear.” You were standing in front of enough fabric to clothe a small village- but nothing felt quite right. Behold, the beige wardrobe (and no, we don’t...

Summer Revely Bread is a staple part of the student diet, and in later life. I’d argue that toast and toasties only come second to pesto pasta in the dream lineup of post-night-out carb loading. But have you ever thought about what is actually in bread? And the contrasting...