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22.05.2012

FELIX

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One small step for POTUS

Last week was unusual in politics, with a politician making a clear statement about their position on what to some is considered a controversial topic. Barack ‘Big O’ Obama clarified what he had previously described ...
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  • Friday May 18, 2012

“Like Geldof mixed with Bush”

If you’ve been online at all in the past week, chances are you’ll have seen Kony 2012, a 30-minute video about the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in central Africa made by the charity Invisible Children, ...
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“Bling-Bling” or “Flamby”?

Five years have passed since the last presidential elections took place in France in 2007, which saw the centre-right populist Nicolas Sarkozy beat the centre-left Ségolène Royal to become the sixth president of the Fifth ...
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  • Thursday March 15, 2012

Dulce et Decorum est

As the “Arab Spring” unfolded, many Syrians looked on with envy, hoping for a chance to ride the waves of change. Yet, after a few failed attempts – the first ...
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  • Thursday March 8, 2012

Freedom to Fornicate

This week, Felix releases the full results of the much-anticipated sex survey. This typically makes for depressing reading in a university concerned with its high levels of “geekiness” and obsessed ...
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  • Thursday March 1, 2012

Volunteering at Tesco

Work experience is something most of us did at school. It was unpaid, but it was two weeks long and we did not do the work of paid staff. Invariably ...
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  • Thursday March 1, 2012

Bringing down the Bankers

In the wake of last week’s pay scandal concerning RBS CEO Stephen Hester a lot has been said in regards to the opulence of bankers’ bonuses. In fact in the ...
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Smack your kids up

MP David Lammy has blamed anti-smacking laws for the lack of discipline that led to riots in London last summer. Mr Lammy is the MP for the North London constituency of ...
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  • Thursday February 2, 2012