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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Debate on ‘Defamation of Religions’ at the UN
France and then Belgium came out strongly, saying that people have rights, religions do not.
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Nearly All the Dead So Far Are Pakistanis
The target may have been US security officials, but the victims are mostly local.
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Theo Hobson Says How ‘Difficult’ His ‘Faith’ Is
When he says he believes God created him he is making a difficult statement of faith.
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Haredi Sect Bullying Women in Jerusalem
More than 30% of Jewish residents in Jerusalem are Haredi, while 22% are secular.
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Why Knowing Something Matters
The problem is that half the electorate revels in Palin’s lack of intellectual qualifications.
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Sue Blackmore on Near Death Experiences
They are well explained by what we know about how brain function changes as it approaches death.
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Pope Wants Europe to Be More Catholic
Church doesn’t want European law to ignore ‘church teaching’; pope wants Catholics to squawk.
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Carlin Romano on Spellberg and Jones
‘She also has every right to try to suppress the book’s publication.’ She does? Every right?
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Hitchens Reviews Bernard-Henri Lévy
Lévy repudiates radical sympathy with theocracy by inverting Pascal and saying ‘we have to make an antiwager.’
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Robert Hughes on Damien Hirst
If there is anything special about this event, it lies in the extreme disproportion between Hirst’s expected prices and his actual talent.
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Alfano Rejects Prosecution of Sabina Guzzanti
‘I decided not to authorise it, knowing well the stature and capacity of the pope for forgiveness.’
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Grayling: Connect Creationism and ‘Faith’ Schools
The best solution is to put religion where it belongs: in the history curriculum of non-faith-based schools.
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The OIC Does Not Speak for Muslims
Tarek Fateh at the UN HRC yesterday: the Islamists have brought their agenda to the UN.
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Human Rights Council: the Resistance Begins
In what was probably a first for the UN, delegates to the HRC heard two Muslims reject Islamism.
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Austin Dacey Addresses the UN HRC
Rights belong to individuals, not ideas. Freedom of religion protects the person who believes (or disbelieves), not the contents of the belief.
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Turkey Prosecutes Artist for PM Cartoon
Michael Dickinson is charged under article 125/3: ‘insulting the prime minister.’
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EU Weakened in UN Human Rights Debates
Support for EU is down, that of China and Russia is up. Not good.
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Pew Report on Global Attitudes [pdf]
% of Turks, Egyptians, Jordanians, Lebanese and Pakistanis with favorable opinions of Jews is in single digits.
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Turkey Blocks Dawkins Website
Court order blocks access after complaints from Harun Yahya; Dawkins panned his ‘Atlas of Creation.’