The weekly poem

2 May 1997

In a world of "you and me",

I am the one that let you go,

I am the love that’s been set free.

I am a flower in a bed of snow,

I am a ship that’s lost at sea,

Will I ever see the shore again,

And will someone rescue me?

Columns

Issue 1085

From Issue 1085

2nd May 1997

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The Alternative Candidate

Simon Baker is one of Felix’s more entertaining writers. Here is a man who arouses the most amazing passions in me. Fascist he is not, but he IS Harry Enfield’s (the "Bollinger Bolshevik") poor misguided Tory Boy. Contrary to Mr Baker’s economy boasts, the latest

Simon Baker - Voice of Reason

Ian Caldwell is to be congratulated. His swift action in erecting a marquee in Princes Gardens has prevented much distress and inconvenience befalling a large group of people. I’m not referring to the poor sods that are having to sit their exams in a tent, but the directors of

Letters to Felix

Dear Felix, Last Friday I received a reconstituted wood-pulp information carrier through my in-door external communications interface, bringing to my attention the fact that my examinations have been ‘relocated to a rigid-structured temporary marquee on Prince’s Gardens’. By the way, we’re doing our exams in a tent this

Westminster Eye - Hamish Common

A letter in the last edition of Felix raised some interesting questions about political bias in this newspaper, accusing my fellow columnist and I of partisan reporting, and hoping we’d all be gagged in the run-up to the election in six days time (I guess it didn’t have

Catnip

Supreme Court rules “ragebait” is valid legal defence

The UK’s highest court sided with Imperial students in two out of three crucial test cases focusing on crimes that involved “ragebaiting”. The decision reversed earlier court rulings that denied the possibility of ragebaiting as a plausible and honest reason for harmful and destructive acts. Previously, these offences only

Culture

Romp at Ranga Records

A committee member from Alternative Music Society reviews Ranga Records’ latest live event

Film & TV

It Was Just An Accident

BFI LFF 2025 Gala: Following a group of Iranian political prisoners