Editorial

If I had a nickel

20 Feb 2025 — 1 min read

This isn't the first time that a member of the Royal Family and President Xi Jinping have been featured in the same edition of Felix. In 2015, Felix #1614 featured Xi's visit to Imperial College as its front-page story, with an opinion piece on Prince Andrew, King Charles' brother, most famously known for his ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The opinion piece was about the Prince visiting Imperial for an entrepreneurial competition, which was featured as one of two lead stories in the previous week's edition, which, I now realise as I write this, is quite similar to our Ukraine feature last week, and The King's visit to Imperial marking the anniversary of the Ukraine war this week. Very much a case of synchronicity.

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Since the removal of Venezuela’s autocratic leader, Nicolas Maduro, by an American task force in January, President Donald Trump has vociferously called for oil companies to rekindle their commercial ties with the embattled petrostate. Although many have been reluctant to “take the oil”, baulking at high upfront investments to

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Lobbying by Stove Industry undermines Council Public Health Campaigns and Housing Plans

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What I thought would be a quick pitstop at a local bookshop in Chiswick turned into a half-hour chat with the owner where I realised I hadn’t read a life-changing book in a while. The conversation inspired a strong urge to change that; I grabbed a copy of The