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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21st Feb 2025

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Letters to the Editor

On Imperial's socio-environmental impact

What does it mean to be a Felix Editor?

I had a little game-plan for my editorials this year, and for my year as editor as a whole. I knew the 75th Anniversary was coming up, and so I wanted my year to be a return to Felix form, in a sense. We've had some fantastic

Letter to the Editor: Student Loans

Dear Felix, It is surprising the limited treatment UK student finance actually receives relative to its obvious importance. Seldom does the subject appear to merit explicit discussion except as a means toward the furtherance of polemics, a case in point being your recent editorial in Felix #1855. Contextually, the plethora

New beginnings and PR problems

Eagle-eyed readers may have noticed a slight change to the Felix website over the past week. The old website, intended for use for “10-15 years” was a slight freak of nature, in that you had to be considered “cracked” or a “10x” computer expert to understand the nature

News

Hugh Brady to remain College President until 2030

Professor Hugh Brady’s term as President of Imperial has been extended by three years until August 2030, following a unanimous approval by the College Council. In an email to students and staff, Council Chair Vindi Banga said a Search Committee commissioned in February found “extensive support for this extension”

Science

Meet Imperial’s 2026 iGem team: reGelerate

The Imperial iGEM 2026 team, reGelerate, is preparing to compete in the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM), the world’s largest annual synthetic biology contest. Bringing together interdisciplinary student teams from across the globe, iGEM challenges participants to develop innovative research projects that address real-world issues in areas such

Books

My favourite book (and goodbye)

If there’s anything I can leave you with, it’ll be a recommendation to read Rules of Civility.