"Keep the Cat Free"

17.05.2012

FELIX

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Politics

  • Editors: Joseph Letts and Rajat Jain
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UN calls Rector in India-Pakistan Dispute

Hosepipe bans cause outrage in middle England, but some water disputes go much deeper than the need to ensure your lawn is greener than the Jones’, and when there is ...
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  • Thursday November 4, 2010

Debate whether Lib Dems betrayed voters continues

The accusations that the Liberal Democrats have compromised or “betrayed” their principles has constantly been levelled at them since their rise to shared power in May 2010. These have only ...
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  • Thursday October 28, 2010

Nick Brown argues Lib Dems have lost support

“Building a Fairer Britain” – the slogan of the Liberal Democrat manifesto. Is this just another promise that the Liberal Democrats have compromised on in their frantic grasp for power? ...
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  • Thursday October 28, 2010

Stereotype of women wrong

She’s probably uneducated and unfulfilled. Captive to her religion, subservient and invisible. These are just some of the inherent stereotypes that are embodied in our modern society, obscuring the Islamic ...
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  • Thursday October 28, 2010

Welfare for all?

The middle classes throughout the developed world complain of faring worst from their governments’ budgets. They are, by definition, hard-working and economically productive. They face taxes as high as the ...
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  • Thursday October 21, 2010

Welfare cuts could pay for science!

Wednesday’s Spending Review brought with it the news, much speculated and feared in this paper, that science spending would itself face cuts. The research budget will be frozen, which means ...
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  • Thursday October 21, 2010

It could be worse; we could be in France

Britain’s first coalition government since the Second World War seems to be splitting at the seams as it unveils a budget to deal with the worst deficit caused by the ...
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  • Thursday October 21, 2010

Arabs in Israel

What are your impressions of the current peace talks in light of the end of the settlement freeze? First of all, there is no end for the settlement freeze. The declaration ...
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  • Thursday October 14, 2010

It ain’t all numbers

One downside to life at Imperial is the lack of variety of students you meet. You won’t find any undergraduates studying full degrees in English Literature, Languages, Law, History or ...
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  • Thursday October 7, 2010

France to ban the wearing of the niqab

France, a country known mainly for cheese, wine, surrendering, gourmet food and the Eiffel Tower, is not a country I often praise. There is, however, one thing which I envy ...
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