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17.05.2012

FELIX

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  • Editors: Joseph Letts and Rajat Jain
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Who is Silvio?

Who is Silvio? What is he,          That all our swines commend him? Wholly full of vice is he;          The seven such place did lend him, That ...
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  • Tuesday December 6, 2011

The Bottom Billion

The world of international development is more often than not more complex than the image the rock concerts and heart-strings-tugging TV ads might project. Often riddled with scandalous corruption and ...
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  • Thursday December 1, 2011

West Sahara and the Arab Spring

On 10 November 2010 a protest camp in the Western Sahara was brutally dismantled by the Moroccan Government, representing the start of the real Arab Spring. One year on, despite ...
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  • Thursday November 24, 2011

From the United States with Love

The Twentieth Century has been marked and shaped by many international alliances. From NATO to the Warsaw pact, these alliances have changed our world, for better or worse. But even ...
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  • Thursday November 24, 2011

Palestinian students visit Imperial

On Tuesday, Imperial was visited by a group of six Palestinian university students spending eleven days in London as part of a cultural exchange. Felix took the opportunity to speak ...
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  • Thursday November 17, 2011

Long live a Queen

A couple of weeks ago, at the Commonwealth summit in Perth, the sixteen leaders of countries where Elizabeth II is head of state unanimously agreed to change the succession laws ...
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News from the outside world

More resignations in the Eurozone The socialist Prime Minister of Greece, George Papandreou, finally made a deal with opposition conservatives for a unity government and acceptance of the European bailout deal, ...
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  • Thursday November 10, 2011

The Politics behind the wand

With Halloween having passed uneventfully last week, in the absence of reports about legions of zombies laying waste to our towns and cities, we present you the Felix Politics Guide ...
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  • Thursday November 3, 2011

The Privatisation of Universities

Even though neither of the two parties in power mentioned drastic transformation of our higher education system in their manifestos the white paper published this summer, ‘Higher Education: Putting students ...
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  • Thursday November 3, 2011

The Conservatives in Europe

Last week was a particularly brutal one for David Cameron and his policy on Europe. First the French president Nicholas Sarkozy told him to “shut up” over unhelpful criticisms over ...
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  • Thursday November 3, 2011