‘Then, of course, there is the argument that if this can be abolished, what else is disposable?’
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Honour, Beatings, Migraines, Forced Marriage
Every year, hundreds of schoolgirls disappear from UK classrooms.
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Tax Exemptions for Religious Organizations
Many have been granted in the last 15 years — sometimes added to legislation with little attention.
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Rod Liddle Reviews The God Delusion
Resorts to familiar drivel about atheism as religion and god-shaped holes.
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BBC Analyst Remembers Anna Politkovskaya
Despite huge pressures on Russia’s media to submit and conform, she investigated and reported abuses.
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Bush Injects Religion into Foreign Aid
Has systematically eliminated or weakened rules designed to enforce separation of church and state.
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Religious Right Shapes US Foreign Aid
Secular groups are losing funding.
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Why the Face Matters
Times readers offer reasons.
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Polish Consulate Cancels Talk After Phone Calls
Kasprzyk said ADL and American Jewish Congress phoned; he concluded Judt was too controversial.
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The Goldilocks Problem
Why is the universe ‘just right’?
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Jack Straw was Right to Lift the Veil on a Taboo
A symbol of women’s oppression which stretches back to the times of classical Greece.
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Cristina Odone on the Amish
It’s not just TV and iPods they reject: it is schooling beyond 14 and the emancipation of women.
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Domestic Violence Among the Amish
‘One person came to me for protection, but she can’t go to court because they don’t believe in it.’
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Dennis Hastert’s Real Estate Deals
Speaker’s net worth went from c. $300,000 to >$6.2 million, partly thanks to an earmark he authored.
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The Sunlight Foundation on Dennis Hastert
The Prairie Parkway will run right past his new property. How handy.
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Russians Mourn Anna Politkovskaya
Politkovskaya was due to publish an article on torture and kidnappings in Chechnya on Monday.
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Anna Politkovskaya 1958-2006
Her reporting won international recognition for exposing human rights abuses in Chechnya.
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Students Flee Iraq’s Schools and Universities
Academics, especially scientists, have been targeted for assassination.
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Fanatiques sans Frontières Are on the March
Timothy Garton Ash says enemies of freedom are manifold and ubiquitous.
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Infallible Pope Undecided on Limbo Question
So for now limbo is neither here nor there.