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Category: Latest News
Welcome to our archive of news stories relevant to the project of fighting fashionable nonsense. The stories are drawn from the electronic pages of the world’s media. On this page, you’ll find links to those stories that have been featured on Butterflies and Wheels during the current year. At the bottom of the page, you’ll find links to separate archives of stories from previous years.
We’re always pleased to hear about news stories that you think should be featured on Butterflies and Wheels. Just send an email here, if you want to point one out to us.
A note about links
Inevitably links go out of date. We suggest, therefore, that you make hard-copies of the stories that particularly interest you.
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Justice for Magdalenes welcomes UN report [pdf]
Having suffered torture or ill-treatment, in which the state directly participated, the women have the ongoing right to an investigation and redress.
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The horror of Ireland’s Magdalene laundries
Ireland locked up more of its citizens than anywhere else in the world – not in prisons, but in psychiatric hospitals, Magdalene laundries and industrial schools.
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Pigliucci on William Lane Craig and logical fallacies
There are situations where invoking the origin of an idea or belief is actually pertinent to the discussion, and does not constitute a fallacy at all.
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James Croft on how not to end a conversation
Somebody wants to set up a new college? Bring out the bombs!
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Nigel Warburton on how not to end a conversation
Ending a conversation with a smoke bomb is very different from spontaneous heckling or angry questioning: it is a form of pre-meditated censorship.
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Rape victim jailed for adultery
Alicia Gali spent eight months in a Dubai prison after the alleged assault by three co-workers. -
Murkan says: give Grayling’s new college a chance
UK and US are full of people who fervently believe in the principle of universal education and just as fervently object to paying higher taxes or tuition fees.
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Smoke bomb set off at Foyles by NCH protesters
Lots of shouting and heckling, then lots of red smoke; all very educational.
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Ethiopia: girls fight child marriages
“I wanted to get an education but my parents were determined to marry me off,” says Himanot Yehewala, who was married five years ago at the age of 13.
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Dons defend plan for £18,000-a-year college
Leading academics have defended their plans to build a privately funded university to rival Oxford and Cambridge from accusations of elitism.
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Academics launch £18,000 college in London
Receive heavy criticism in comments.
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UN Committee Against Torture reports on Magdalenes
Says Irish govt should set up statutory investigation into allegations of torture and degrading treatment against women committed to Magdalene Laundries.
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NY Times on Amina Araf’s abduction
She has been openly critical of the Syrian government’s response to the protest movement.
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“Gay Girl in Damascus” abducted
Relatives of Amina Abdallah, a Syrian-American blogger and activist, said she was bundled into a car by suspected security agents on Monday.
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Justice for Saleem Shahzad? We’ve seen this before…
The anger surrounding the abduction and murder of Saleem Shahzad is still raging.
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Amir Mir asks: who killed Saleem Shahzad?
He will not be the last journalist killed for uncovering the truth; there are many journalists in Pakistan who put truth ahead of so-called “national interest”.
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Saleem Shahzad’s former employer retorts to ISI
Shahzad “confided to me and several others that he had received death threats from various officers of the ISI on at least three occasions in the past five years.”
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“Multiculturalism” in Denmark
If liberty and tolerance are to be core Danish values, then it is neither multi nor monoculturalism we should argue for.
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Mick Hume gives the spiked view on Mladic
Why did Srebrenica happen? It’s fraffly complicated. These dreary human rights types get it all wrong.