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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Roy Hattersley Says Mill is Vieux Chapeau
Mill is, like the Liberal Democrats, ‘comfortingly worthy but out-of-date.’
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Gustav Seibt on Raul Hilberg
He was the first to ask: how were the victims identified, driven together, transported then murdered?
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Threatened Journalist Faces Deportation
Mansoor Hassan wrote an article exposing the ‘honour’ killing of a young woman by her own father.
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Increased Reporting of ‘Honour’ Crime in R’dam
Authorities say they have received more than 70 reports since January, compared to 30 for all of 2006.
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Violence Against Women Increasing in Kurdistan
Kurdish government has overturned lax Iraqi laws; defendants can be charged with ‘deliberate murder.’
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Anthony Grayling on Atheism
Grayling explains why he believes atheism to be a well-grounded and ultimately life-affirming position.
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Peace Process Fails to Address Sexual Violence
HRW reports women and girls continue to be subjected to acts of sexual violence in Côte d’Ivoire.
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Dutch Ex-Muslim Beaten Up in Voorburg
Ehsan Jami was assaulted by three men who called him a ‘filthy homo’ and ‘filthy traitor’.
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Robert Putnam Finds Diversity Bad For Civic Life
It can be good for creativity, but it’s bad for social capital.
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EU Asks Iran Not to Execute Two Journalists
RSF hails EU request to Iran not to execute Kurdish journalists Adnan Hassanpour and Abdolvahed Botimar.
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Not So Fast, Christian Soldiers
DOD Inspector General report says generals ‘conferred approval of and support to Christian Embassy.’
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Melanie Phillips: Science is the Enemy of Reason
‘The Bible provides a picture of a rational Creator and an orderly universe.’ And?
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Michael Ignatieff on the Catstrophe in Iraq
Politicians live by ideas, but they can’t afford the luxury of entertaining ideas that are merely interesting.
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Steven Shapin on Herbert Spencer
Spencer was the greatest of philosophical hedgehogs: his popularity stemmed from one big idea.
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Alain Finkielkraut Appalled by Jogging Sarkozy
It is the surrender of the mind to the body that AF cannot stand: mere body management, devoid of spirituality.
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MPs Reading The God Delusion
Along with Hague on Wilberforce, and Harry Potter.
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Ian Birchall Notes: Sartre Was no Nihilist
Sartre takes those of us who see no evidence of a creator through the problem of how we should act in this world.
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Review of Catriona McKinnon’s ‘Toleration’
‘Liberals tend to take for granted that everyone agrees on the value of toleration.’
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Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)
By Carol Tavris and Elliott Aronson – sounds like a must-read.