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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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The Vatican Accepts No Responsibility
The Vatican has the power and the immunity, so it washes its hands.
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Christian Brothers Hand Over €161m to Victims
They came in for scathing criticism in the Ryan report on abuse of children in industrial schools.
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Horrific Clerical Abuse in Dublin Archdiocese
They moved the problem on, looked after their own financial interests, looked after their priests and not the victims.
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Sacked ‘Psychic’ Cop Loses Case
It wasn’t his beliefs what done it, it was his getting ‘visibly aroused’ during a training exercise.
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Maryam Namazie on the No Sharia Rally
At the rally, over 20 speakers and performers exposed the discriminatory and brutal nature of religious laws.
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Nepal: 500,000 Animals to be Ritually Killed
‘The goddess needs blood,’ said a priest at the Gadhimai temple in the centre of the festival site.
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Anglican Bishops Go on the Offensive
Urge Christians to resist ‘political correctness’ by wearing religious symbols during Xmas period.
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Lubna Hussein’s 40 Lashes for Trousers
She was sentenced to a month in prison, banned from leaving Sudan; is in Paris to promote book.
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Destruction of Babri Mosque Was Planned
BJP politicians including Vajpayee planned the destruction of the mosque with ‘military-like precision.’
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‘Honour’ Killings Rise in Canada
‘A few women are really sacrificed to terrorize all women, to push them into submission.’
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Goodness With or Without God
Greg Epstein wants to split the difference. Or something.
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Ayodhya Mosque Blames BJP
The report clearly implicates more than 60 people, including the most senior members of the BJP.
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India: Parliament in Uproar Over Report
Indian Express reported the commission of inquiry had described BJP leaders as ‘pseudo-moderates.’
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Darwin Goes Digital for 150th Anniversary
On the Origin of Species was published 150 years ago today; Darwin’s original drafts are going online.
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Birther Billboard Stirs ‘Debate’
No it doesn’t. Invented ‘facts’ don’t stir debate, because there’s nothing to debate.
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Dispatches: Return to Africa’s ‘Witch’ Children
Children as young as two are still being stigmatised as witches and tortured, killed, or abandoned.
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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is Conflicted
On the one hand, Islam is not entirely liberal. On the other hand…um…
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Heresiarch Follows Sarah Palin on Twitter
So you don’t have to.
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EU Pressures UK Over Religious Exemptions
Government agrees, will drop the exemptions from equality legislation for religious organisations.