lockdown

Gemma Cockrell As Nottingham tackles yet another lockdown, loungewear is sure to become a staple in everyone’s wardrobes. With the rise in the availability and popularity of matching loungewear sets, here are the best places to find tracksuits that suit your lockdown (and fashion) needs. Juicy Couture Mainly due...

Elijah Trevers As we go into another national lockdown, Elijah Trevers offers a personal look at what this means for him, sporting activity and mental health this winter. When the first UK lockdown finally came to an end, it was no surprise that gyms, sports facilities, and parks were...

Sunny, sinuous and irrepressibly melodic, Fickle Friends’ nimble brand of alt-pop poses the perfect soundtrack to modern alienation. Continuing in the electronica-tinged vein of their earlier work, the Brighton mob have emerged emboldened with two riotous new singles, and caught up Impact’s Gemma Cockrell as the shimmering EP looms....

On Wednesday afternoon, two anti-lockdown protests, one after the other, took place in Nottingham’s Old Market Square. Protestors were vocalising their unhappiness with the growing Coronavirus restrictions and “rushed” vaccine trials....

Northern Ireland have announced a 4-week circuit-breaker lockdown from Friday onwards, involving tough restrictions, including the closure of pubs and restaurants. This was in response to 6,286 new cases being reported this week....

Gemma Cockrell Gemma investigates gaming’s latest crowd favourite. Following the rise of Fall Guys a few months ago, there’s a new game on the block – Among Us. The game has seen 41.9 million downloads in September alone! The sudden popularity of the game was somewhat unexpected, seeing as...

Like a paper sticky label on your new sets of kitchen plates, stubbornly refusing to come off without relentless scrubbing, the term ‘students’ has been irreversibly tangled with the idea of COVID- infected party animals. ...