This year, despite restrictions Felix ran its annual Felix Meet the Candidates or hustings event. This was a broadcast event where candidates for major roles were able to speak directly to their voters and audience in a way that would otherwise have been very difficult to do. I was very
We are back. Limping off the printing press and accusations of being old fashioned we are back. This is in a large part due to you. I must thank everyone who answered the survey put out for the Felix consultation review. Seeing the response and people’s genuine investment and
The 2021 Sex Survey is open for submissions
You may have spotted the large and inflammatory headline on the front of the paper. I hope that you are not expecting to see academics dragged out of their labs and pelted with vegetables on Queen’s lawn. As entertaining as I am sure it would be, I think it
I read an interesting article the other day about why men are so psychologically immature. Before you write me an angry email, allow me to finish. The article suggested that modern men struggle to adopt the responsibilities and patterns of adulthood, leaving them lacking energy, motivation and wanting to return
Being an embarrassing, closet liberal, I read Peter Hitchens’ book Letters to a Young Contrarian this week. Glossing over the self-congratulatory title, Hitchens makes a point that has stuck with me far longer than his smug anti-theism. He writes about Václav Havel, the former President of Czechoslovakia and the Czech
Members of the Imperial community have been acting unacceptably, sending harassing and abusive messages to Zixiao. We condemn this strongly and completely.
Editor-in-Chief Calum Drysdale argues that while we can sympathise with GSU president Zixiao Wang disagreement is a vital part of any decision making body
Editor-in-Chief Calum Drysdale asks how we can avoid a replay of what happened in the US here in Britain
This week we received an unusual piece from a student for publication. Published in the comment section this week, we initially struggled to know what to do with it. A comment article is usually an attempt to convince. It is open about its opinions, but it hopes, through humour, reason
I have spent this week glued to the Worldometer.info COVID cases tracker. The website offers just the right level of statistical detail. Not too much, to prevent information overload and enough variety to allow for frequent viewing. The format is simple. Two sets of graphs showing the number of
Watching the US election over the last couple of days I have been struck time and time again how poorly polling and probabilaty predictions have been interpreted. With the arrival of Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight and the widespread adoption of quantitative poll aggregation techniques, it had appeared to me that