Leaving aside my many other concerns with this thread, I'm glad someone's made that point. It's true that Felix is a suborganisation within ICU. But ICU is part of IC, which is part of the British University System, a subsidiary of HMG, which in turn is a member of the Council of Europe, and so on. Will you boycott ECHR decisions coming down from the Council's court to avoid looking like a hypocrite with respect to this article?
Membership doesn't signify; control does. You will certainly remember how fiercely editorially-independent Felix was when we were there, and because memes propagate I expect that to have continued as much as the rugger-bugger mentality clearly has. The buck stops at the editor; (s)he will have to make a decision about how far up the flagpole to run the author of this piece, and will in all likelihood have to defend that decision publicly. If his or her judgement is generally felt to be wrong, (s)he will probably have to step down as editor of Felix. This is right and proper, and in my view, proportionate.
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Membership doesn't signify; control does. You will certainly remember how fiercely editorially-independent Felix was when we were there, and because memes propagate I expect that to have continued as much as the rugger-bugger mentality clearly has. The buck stops at the editor; (s)he will have to make a decision about how far up the flagpole to run the author of this piece, and will in all likelihood have to defend that decision publicly. If his or her judgement is generally felt to be wrong, (s)he will probably have to step down as editor of Felix. This is right and proper, and in my view, proportionate.