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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Rolling Stone on the Make-believe Maverick
‘McCain has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to taking whatever position will advance his own career.’
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Sarah Palin and Conservative ‘Feminism’
Feminists are being challenged by national organizations that are antifeminist but claim to represent women’s interests.
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‘Culture’ Minister: Libraries Should be Noisier
Libraries not places for reading and thinking, libraries places ‘for families and joy and chatter.’
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Christian ‘Boot Camp’ That ‘Cures’ Homosexuality
‘It makes more sense to listen to the God who created the Universe than to my puny human emotions.’
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More Sinister Nonsense from Charlie Gere
Condemns ‘violence’ committed by ‘those who are offended by criticisms of the freedom of speech.’
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Sarkozy and Pope Call For ‘Positive’ Secularism
Sarkozy advocated the benefits of a secularism ‘more open to religions’; the pope seemed thrilled.
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Iran Plans Cute New Car Designed for Women
Will come in ‘a range of feminine colours and interior designs’ with parking and navigation aids.
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Oliver Kamm on Charlie Gere
Authors and publishers must be defended against an assault on free expression under the guise of sensitivity.
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Vicar Apologizes for ‘Joke’ About Tattooing Gays
Says he did not intend to cause upset or offense. See 9th commandment, vic.
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McCain Ad: Obama ‘Not Presidential’
Meaning what? Previous 43 were all white?
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Fleischacker on the Israel-Palestine Conflict 5
Ancestral occupancy, like religion, makes for a politically dangerous source of claims to ownership.
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Anna Politkovskaia
Murdered two years ago today, perhaps in retribution for her work.
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Sarah Chayse on Her Friend Malalai Kakar
Chayse was a friend of Kakar’s and says her killing has left many in a state of despair.
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Review of Ben Goldacre’s ‘Bad Science’
Ed Lake applauds a crusade against lazy and deceptive writing about science.
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Claudia Roth Pierpont on Machiavelli
Machiavelli no more invented political evil by describing it than Kinsey invented sex.
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Sami Moubayed Defends Aisha
‘Offending others for the sake of free speech should not be tolerated.’
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The Truthers’ New Friends
The lunatics, for the most part, were running the asylum.
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Prof Brian Winston Answers Charlie Gere
Such confusions are the source of the idea that violence is justified by the fact that someone is offended.
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Ruth Kelly on Opus Dei and ‘Faith’
‘I think that faith is completely rational. The debate in Britain has become incredibly secularised.’
