Victoria Mileson

Between 4-8th April, the Nottingham Playhouse brought Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead to life. Impact’s Victoria Mileson reviews....

Airports are known for being a bizarre, timeless environment—spoons trips can be at any hour of the day and coffee is in no short supply. However, it’s by no means somewhere we would want to live. Mehran Karimi Nasseri lived in this strange purgatory between territories for 18 years...

In the UK, we watch the Queen’s speech, settle down for Christmas Lunch (or Dinner) and unwrap presents that have been waiting under the tree. Around the world, Christmas is celebrated differently, and there are some unique traditions that you wouldn’t find in the UK. Victoria Mileson talks us...

2021 is drawing to a close, so it's the perfect time to look back at the best music that has been released this year. Over the last couple of weeks, Impact's Music Collaborators have been voting in a survey to crown their artist of the year, group of the...

Victoria Mileson Afghanistan’s cultural heritage is at risk. Following the withdrawal of US troops and the rapid resurgence of the Taliban, Afghan museums have been racing to save their artifacts due to fears they will be seized or destroyed. Victoria Mileson tells us more. could history be on its...

Artists such as Lizzo and Adele have recently come under fire for their attempts to lose weight. Being body positive has never meant you can’t also shed a few pounds, so why do we hold female musicians to different standards than we hold both ourselves and men to? It...

It’s a common misconception that the Western World is immune to the climate crisis; that we can somehow pay our way out of it or that it’s not our problem. We often take a “last chance” attitude to travel destinations facing extinction rather than putting in the effort to...