France failed to assess adoption by a lesbian the same way it would a single heterosexual.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Starry-eyed Review of Tariq Ramadan
‘Nor does he lose sight of the animating purpose of true religion, to charge mankind with love and compassion.’
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Free Expression Does Mean a Right to Offend
Is Wilders asserting a right to free speech or dressing up a gratuitous religious insult in constitutional language? Both.
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Charlie Hebdo Editor Back in Court Over Motoons
Union of Islamic Organisations of France and World Muslim League appealed last year’s acquittal.
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Cherie Blair Disses the Pope
Without contraception women are screwed.
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Mathematics and God
How easily nonsense proffered in an earnest and profound manner can browbeat someone into acquiescence.
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Jacob Weisberg on Bush’s Religion
He swears, he doesn’t pay tithes, he doesn’t try to convert others – he’s not much of an evangelical.
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Women Lose in Indian Rights Gain in Mexico
All-male town board tore up ballots cast for Cruz, saying that as a woman, she wasn’t a citizen of the town.
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Margaret Drabble Follows J B Priestley
His chapter on the Potteries is humane, indignant, charged with the energy of his restless curiosity.
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More Criticism of Journalist’s Death Sentence
RSF appeals to Karzaï to respond to the many appeals for clemency for Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh.
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Petition in Support of Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh
Death penalty on on charges of blasphemy and ‘disseminating defamatory comments about Islam.’
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Another Prosecution of Agos Journalists
RSF regards this prosecution as yet another case of improper use of the press law.
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Secularism on the Skids in Turkey
Islamist ruling AK Party, nationalist MHP call ending hijab ban an issue of human rights and freedoms.
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Deborah Cameron on Myth of Gendered Speech
She combats the cliché by example, writing in an enjoyable mode of pugnacious sarcasm.
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Christian Couple Tortured Their Children
Father sliced the boys’ mouths with a scalpel, put safety pins through their lips – because God had his tongue cut off in the Bible.
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Jesus and Mo Are Amazed by Tom Cruise
He really seems convinced that he has access to some kind of special knowledge.
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Ben Goldacre on Stupidity With Statistics
How not to do a careful survey: count comments on a badly-worded question at a chat site.
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Alarmist TV Drama on Autism and Vaccination
New legal drama comes down on the side dismissed by prominent scientific organizations.
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Cruel Nanny Had Fake Qualifications
Claimed to hold numerous childcare diplomas from organisations that denied knowledge of her.
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Nick Clarke on Opening of CFI London
He reports on talks by Stephen Law, Mark Vernon and Azar Majedi.