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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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You Can’t Do Both
It’s a sin to shag a sheep and then eat it.
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More on Euston
The most vulgar Eustonians are like an intellectual dad’s army. Hmm…
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Court Decision Evicts Hirsi Ali From Safe House
Justice Minister Piet Donner is considering appealing the decision to the Supreme Court.
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Julian Baggini on What ‘Being Religious’ Is
Atheists can have awe, reverence, gratitude and humility just as theists can.
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Overselling Climate Change
Alarmism is bad strategy.
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Jesus Christ! Cherie Blair in Wrong Frock Scandal
Wears white dress to meet pope, must think she is a queen.
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Andrew Brown Interviews Raymond Tallis
GP, research scientist, professor of gerontology, literary critic, poet and philosopher.
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Roger Scruton on Sigmund the Fraud
At every point where scientific method might impose its logic on the argument, Freud stepped sideways into metaphor.
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Pratap Bhanu Mehta on Identity and Violence
‘Is Sen too much of an Enlightenment thinker to really be able to explain identity politics?’
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What is God For?
Not morality, for a start.
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Millfield High Cancels Creationist Lecture
Secular groups had criticised the lecture as an attempt to indoctrinate children.
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Drivel About Astrology
It’s not a science, it’s simply a tool to better understand the ups and downs of blah blah blah.
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What the BNP and Respect Have in Common
Both make people’s wishes secondary to pseudoscientific abstractions such as race and historical forces.
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Women Allowed into Football Matches in Iran
Last month security forces attacked dozens of female football fans who had bought tickets.
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Sport and Politics in Iran
‘We consider this a victory for the women’s movement’ says Mahboubeh Abbass- Gholizadeh.
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Scott McLemee at a Historians’ Convention
Scholars brainwashed into practicing disinterested, rigorous historical inquiry.
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MCB Rips Up Anti-homophobia Plan
Bunglawala disavows policy advisor, reiterates ‘homosexual relationships are sinful in Islam.’
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Christian Discovery to Manifest Destiny
Jim Cornehls gives a brief history of US violence.
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Daniel Finkelstein on Euston Manifesto
Principles may draw on the great history of the Left, but they are not its present or its future.
