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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Interview With Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Interviewer asks: ‘Is there a school where they teach you these American cliches?’
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Hitchens on the Mantle of Righteousness
On the self-satisfaction that assumes, whether or not religion is true, at least it stands for morality.
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Shambo ‘Saved’ at Risk of Public Health
So he’s got TB, so what, he’s ‘sacred.’
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Electric Preacher Denies Scam
‘Charge a spoon, keys or coins and watch as it shocks a volunteer! They will believe you have supernatural powers!’
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Education Should Make You Rich, not Wealthy
‘What mattered was being thrilled by literature, by great ideas and words, words, words.’
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Muslim Heads Stuck Firmly in Sand
Denial is no help, Hassan Butt points out.
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Hey, Pope, Lay Off Anglicans, Says Atheist
‘ Listen, Pope, I am inclined to say, two can play at infallibility.’
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Ed Husain on Chilling Similarities
Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer. One Nation, One State, One Caliph.
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Jesus and Mo Compare Jokes
Who is funnier?
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It’s True That A-levels Are Easier
A-level students face equations that require less depth of knowledge and understanding than in the past.
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Libya Upholds Death Sentences in HIV Case
The nurses and the doctor have been in jail since 1999 and were first sentenced to death in 2004.
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al-Zawahiri Threatens Revenge over Rushdie’s K
Osama bin Laden’s deputy warned that Britain would be hit with ‘a very precise response.’
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Mo Discovers Epistemological Relativism
We can’t know for sure the 12th imam is not hiding down a well.
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Evangelical Blogger Gets 100,000 Readers
Brody occupies a position of influence in the 2008 presidential campaign. That’s unfortunate.
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Grayling on the Lunatic Fringe of Human Thought
That is why we see scores or hundreds murdered daily for sectarian reasons.
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Doctors Can be Religious Loonies Too
Now it seems that there really was a doctors’ plot in London and Glasgow.
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ALD is Much More Than an Aggregator
It’s both a daily reminder of the riches available in the publications of the world and a map to finding those riches.
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School Rejects Boy Named Hell
It’s German, it means ‘bright,’ but a Catholic school in Melbourne would prefer not to.
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Eagleton on Rushdie and Other Apostates
They used to be so cool, now they’re a bunch of Islamophobes; tut tut.