Made no mention of child-rape by priests in Ireland, Germany, Austria, the US and elsewhere.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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More Guardian god-coddling
‘The concepts of equality, democracy and the right to be treated justly were gifted to the nations by the Bible.’
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Oliver Kamm on Sholto and sharia
Byrnes’s views are reactionary and illiberal, and illustrate a fundamental difference of values within the Left.
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Madeleine Bunting is excited about something
Big Ideas, insights, intriguing, failed, soul-searching, progressive, Enlightenment, Eurocentrism, Islam, the west, progress, optimism.
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One version of Center for Inquiry ‘schism’
With plenty of rude language for overt atheists and tender language for the people who hate them.
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Gender equality in Sweden
‘Society is a mirror of the family. The only way to achieve equality in society is to achieve equality in the home.’
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Steven Pinker on moral panics over new media
Media critics write as if the brain takes on the qualities of whatever it consumes.
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Ben Goldacre on the superstition effect
Confidence tends to improve performance.
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Bangladesh: paper allowed to resume publishing
But the editor of the opposition daily is still in jail, charged with sedition.
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A colour never before seen?
What would it be like to see a really new colour?
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Mary Midgley on evolution and “anti-god warriors”
A philosopher should not start with a strawman.
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If the BP disaster had happened in the Channel
We would not be hearing about “anti-British rhetoric.”
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Press conditions deteriorate in Iraqi Kurdistan
Sardasht Osman, 23, a reporter for the opposition semi-monthly Ashtiname, was found shot to death in the city of Mosul on May 6.
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Sholto Byrnes replies to critics
By ignoring everything they said.
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Right-wing loonies fume at “Britain-bashing”
They’ll be demanding Obama’s birth certificate next.
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“Has US bloodlust for BP gone too far?”
If a US corporation destroyed all of Sussex, the British would not say a word. Right?
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“Is Obama being anti-British?”
Is that a stupid question?
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What would Jehovah do about Gaza?
Paula Kirby notes, the Bible is full of helpful examples to follow.
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Syrian women ponder rare political victory
Women’s rights groups successfully resisted a proposed new personal status law.
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Johann Hari on human rights as universal
It is never the “culture” of a torture victim to want the torture to continue.