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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Eta Declares Permanent Ceasefire
The ceasefire will take effect on Friday, the statement said.
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Lords Overturn School Jilbab Ruling
Law lords verturned a court ruling that Begum’s human rights were violated.
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Annual Peter Tatchell Human Rights Fund Meeting
Maryam Namazie asks how can it be Islamophobic to say people should be able to live a 21st century life?
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Climate for Discussing Religion Has Chilled
‘The momentum is with those people who use their particular, narrow faith to silence other voices.’
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It Needs a Big Brain to Hold so Much Nonsense
Did causal beliefs lead to tool-making, or did tool-making lead to causal beliefs?
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Toda Women Rejecting Patriarchal Society
‘The girls want to study. They want to achieve something…The girls want a different life.’
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Festival Refuses to Cancel ‘Blasphemous’ Show
Archbishop of Toledo rails, government frets about offending Catholic sensibilities, show goes to Rome next.
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Al-Afif al-Akhdar’s Life is in Danger
Fighter for secularism and democracy works to expose dangers of Islamic fundamentalism.
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Possible Death Penalty for Leaving Islam
‘We are Muslims and becoming a Christian is against our laws. He must get the death penalty.’
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Republicans Annoyed With Catholic Church
Scold Catholic bishops ‘for invoking God when arguing for a blanket amnesty’ for illegal immigrants.
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Charles Taylor on Cartoons, ‘Lamentable Disrespect’
‘[W]e need an informal code where that kind of gratuitous insult can not take place.’
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Francis Gilbert on Yob Culture
His previous books were accounts of the anarchic nightmare that is modern British schooling.
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Archbish Calls Creationism a Category Mistake
Criticised Archbish Akinola in Nigeria for warning that Xians could retaliate against Muslims.
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Revenge Attacks Killed 20 Nigerian Muslims
Religious riots intensified last month after archbishop said Muslims had no ‘monopoly on violence’.
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Rousseau and His Dog, Hume and his Waistcoat
Wittgenstein and his poker, Spinoza and his pipe, Leibniz and his umbrella.
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Johann Hari on Why He Was Wrong About Iraq
‘The evidence should have been clear to me all along: the Bush administration would produce disaster.’
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Women Risk Fatwas to Criticize Islam
The most important critics of Islamic fundamentalism are women, mostly from Islamic countries.
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Death Threat Against Manifesto Twelve
Sign petition of support.
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Museums for the World Barney Lives In
Museums become more user-friendly and socially relevant, at the expense of scholarship.