Azmi v Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council in the Employment Appeal Tribunal.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Museums, Libraries Asked to Create Prayer Rooms
Mosques, churches asked to provide paintings and books. No that one’s a joke.
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Among the Dead in Virginia
Prof K Granata, orthopaedic researcher; Prof GV Loganathan, award-winning teacher; Prof L Librescu, Holocaust survivor.
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Iran’s Supreme Court Acquits Murderers
Vigilantes were not guilty because their victims were involved in un-Islamic activities.
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Norwegian-Somalian FGM Critic Assaulted
They kicked her and screamed that she had trampled on the Koran. She has several broken ribs.
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Two Men Arrested in Assault on Kadra
She told Norwegian newspaper VG that the Koran’s views on women needed to be reinterpreted.
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I Beg You, Take Me Away From Here
‘I have nothing here. Why should I live in this prison and be forced to marry a man I do not wish to marry?’
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Clive James on Wittgenstein
A given line of argument could be outright wrong, especially if it sought obsessively for a unity that could not exist.
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Group Claims it Has Murdered Alan Johnston
BBC said it could not confirm the claims by the previously unknown ‘Tawhid and Jihad brigades.’
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Ankara Rally for Secularism
Women, especially, are worried.
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More Will Mean Worse?
Conflict faced by many lecturers teaching students they regard as ill-equipped for degree-level study.
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Ben Goldacre on Blaming Big Pharma
Only 10% of pharmaceutical research is funded outside the pharmaceutical industry; whose fault is that?
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US House Majority Leader Meets MB Leader
Steny Hoyer met with the Muslim Brotherhood’s parliamentary leader in Cairo.
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Nick Cohen on Noxious Fumes
When environmentalists rave and reactionaries cheer, the outlook is grim.
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Julian Baggini on the Real Clash of Civilizations
Middle ground between shoulder-shrugging relativism and dogmatic fundamentalism has been vacated.
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Houzan Mahmoud Says No to a Medieval Kurdistan
An important new front in the battle to push sharia law back where it belongs – in the dark ages.
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Ann Coulter’s Brilliant Hoax
A witty parody of attacks on evolution, in the style of the Sokal hoax.
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Reporters and Readers are Responsible
Readers want Faye Turney, not some dead Kuwaiti intepreter.
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Japan and China: What Children Learn
Not enough, apparently.
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Wen Jiabao Urges Japan to Face WWII Actions
‘Japan’s invasions caused tremendous damage to the Chinese.’ And not just the Chinese.