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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Pope Annoyance Laws Ruled Invalid
Justices ruled the clause relating to annoying and inconveniencing pilgrims was excessive.
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Fadela Amara Says Burqa is a Prison
‘Not a religious insignia but the insignia of a totalitarian political project that advocates inequality between the sexes.’
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Anwar Ibrahim Arrested for ‘Sodomy’
Sodomy, even between consenting adults, is punishable by 20 years’ imprisonment in Malaysia.
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Carl Zimmer on How the Brain Controls Time
The brain has several ways to tell time, and none of them seems to work like a conventional clock.
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HRW on the International Criminal Court
The ICC has made progress in bringing justice to victims of horrible abuses despite daunting obstacles.
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Sandra Tsing Loh on ‘I Choose My Choice!’
Ignore stupid subtitle; the article is good.
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ICC Presents Case Against Sudanese President
ICC press release: Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has presented evidence to charge genocide, war crimes.
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Tom Clark Reviews Austin Dacey on Secularism
How can secular liberals best defend an open society against the authoritarian and absolutist opposition?
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Richard Jenkyns on Jane Austen and Boredom
The supreme study of the psychopathology of boredom is Mansfield Park.
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Creationism on the Rise in Europe
Christian and Muslim creationists are working together in a concerted assault on science teaching.
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Controversies Over Catholic ‘World Youth Day’
NSW government passed laws against behaviour that ’causes annoyance’ to pilgrims.
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Saudi Student and Her Supervisor Face Lashes
‘The Saudi justice system does not really observe the written law. It’s up to the judges.’
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ICC Moves to Arrest Sudan’s Leader
Prosecutor asked for an arrest warrant for al-Bashir on charges of crimes against humanity and genocide.
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Civil Rights Must Trump ‘Faith’
The tribunal decided, in effect, that British anti-discrimination law is trumped by Ladele’s faith.
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Fox News Fakes Pictures to Punish Reporters
Steinberg’s photo was shopped in a way familiar to students of vintage German propaganda.
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Look Here Upon This Picture, and on This
Hyperion to a satyr. Fox News makes the nose big, the brow low, the skin green; and its point is?
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New Legal Threat to School Science in US
Barbara Forrest says Louisiana’s ‘Science Education Act’ is designed to slip ID in through the back door.
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Anti-same-sex Marriage Registrar Wins Case
Tribunal rules Christian registrar who refused to marry gays was discriminated against on grounds of religious beliefs.
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BBC Does Darwin
The BBC today announces a season of landmark content to mark the life and work of Darwin.