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Union President Nico Henry shares advice on campaigning and delivering as a Union Officer.
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The third Union Council meeting of the academic year took place on February 10th. Here are some major takeaways from the Council papers and meeting discussions. New menus at ICU eateries Fusion, a cafeteria located in FiveSixEight bar, has been taken over by an ICU-affiliated catering team since January, having
Editorial
As someone who has never used any other dating app and never plans to, one may expect this editorial to hold some naïve priors when it comes to their use. However, after numerous discussions with several members of this newspaper’s editorial board, my own friends, and even my girlfriend,
After a long wait, it is our pleasure to present Felix’s first Drug Survey results. Keen to diversify this newspaper’s survey topics (currently, just sex) into more highbrow issues, last May the team launched a survey interrogating Imperial students’ consumption of tobacco, alcohol, cannabis and other psychoactive substances.
Felix speaks with three Iranian members of the Imperial community about the desperate situation in their home country.
Students and bartenders say the new system is more cumbersome than the card-based identification it replaced.
Imperial students tend to become very uncomfortable if I talk about my upbringing.
The startup, co-founded by a former Imperial Business School student, will rotate vendors and introduce “meal deals” to the Tuesday food court.
The College will run student focus groups to gather opinions on the technology as it considers a wider roll-out.
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UCU says it received over a thousand compensation requests as strikes continue.
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Applications for the role of Editor-in-Chief at Felix have opened on February 9th and will close on March 14th. The Felix Editor is a paid sabbatical officer. Current students or recent graduates may be appointed to the role by Imperial College Union (ICU) following a competitive selection process. More information
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The UK Governement published guidance intended for universities and students to detect and report foreign interference in the British higher education sector, which it called an “attractive target” for hostile states. It is investing £3 million in a package of measures to “tackle the issue,” including a new centralised reporting
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Imperial spinout company Nanomox secured £2.4 million worth of seed funding, the earliest stage of startup financing, for their materials recycling technology. Nanomox produces materials – chiefly oxides of metals such as zinc – that it extracts from waste sources using a prorietary process involving ionic liquids. Ionic liquids are considered
Environment
While buying your morning coffee at The Roastery, you probably wondered why you had to pay £2 extra. This additional cost is a deposit for your Re-Universe cup, which can be refunded by bringing it back to the return point within 7 days. The return point is right across from
Film & TV
Paul Feig’s new thriller with Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried keeps us watching, but never quite makes us uncomfortable.
Societies
Imperial’s famous event, and Europe’s biggest hackathon, took place over the last weekend of January.
Food
A simple habit that saves time, money, and energy.
Drug Survey 2026
Close to a quarter (92 out of 389) of respondents reported taking a “hard drug”, which is roughly five times the national average. According to the Office for National Statistics, 4.5% of people aged 16-24 take class A drugs, cannabis excluded. As with our cannabis figures, it seems likely
Drug Survey 2026
Of the 322 respondents that answered the questions in this section, a razor-thin majority had consumed cannabis in some form. This is very different to what national statistics find – in one recent study, 12.5% of youths aged 16-24 reported to have consumed the drug. This might be due to
Drug Survey 2026
National studies find that around three-quarters of Generation Z drink in the UK, meaning Imperial’s 28% is broadly in line with the average. The faculty of engineering had the highest proportion of drinkers. However, among those who drink within faculties, Business School students and medics have the most weekly
