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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.
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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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God Save Us From the Pope
In May 2001 Ratzinger ordered Catholic bishops not to notify the police about child abuse allegations.
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Freedom of Expression on Trial Again at UN
IHEU called for recognition that it is believers, not beliefs, that are entitled to protection against hatred.
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Ariane Sherine on Atheism as Snobbery
Atheists just want to sneer at the working class, said Andrew Brown pleasantly.
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All-hijab School Opens in Cambridgeshire
It is being paid for by ‘members of the Asian community.’
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Launch of Independent World Report
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Oliver Kamm on Voltaire’s Children
‘For cultures born of the Enlightenment, private religious belief is not so much an enemy as an irrelevance.’
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Nick Cohen on the Return of Deference
Class warriors use the law of libel and a privacy law they have virtually invented to protect the wealthy from scrutiny.
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Oliver Kamm Rebukes Yale Over the Motoons
‘Yale sententiously describes itself as “an institution deeply committed to free expression”. That is nonsense.’
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Berlusconi Insults Both Obamas at G20
They’re both tanned, hahaha, look at that dress vavavoom, the president can read autocues hahaha.
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Pope Orders Europe to ‘Acknowledge’ Xian Heritage
‘History has demonstrated the absurdities to which man descends when he excludes God,’ cleric said.
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Steve Fuller Responds
‘Simon Underdown indulges in the pop-science fantasy that a clear line can be drawn between science and politics.’
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Seyran Ates: Human Rights Before Religion
In Germany’s recent past, many people have forgotten that human rights must come before religious practices.
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Australia: Churches May Discriminate
Victoria’s tweaked equal opportunity laws will still let churches exclude gays and single parents.
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Blaming Darwin for Hitler
‘Here is a book that leaves the reader wondering time and time again if the author is serious.’
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The Repercussions for Muslim Women
Decisions made by Sharia councils have no room in British law.
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World Without Lies is a World Without Religion
Gervais is refreshingly open about his atheism, which can be risky in a country as pious as the US.
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Johann Hari on ‘the Queen Mother’
She would see her children for an hour a day and get them to chant: ‘We are not supposed to be normal.’
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Ben Goldacre on How Patents Affect Science
Drug patents are a fascinating trade off between the benefit of incentive and the harm to innovation.
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Ben Goldacre Sees an AIDS Denialist Film
Do you give idiots a wider audience when you respond to them? Are they marginal and irrelevant?