‘There is nothing brave about causing gratuitous offence.’
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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The Economist Spurns Self-consorship
When freedom of speech is under threat of violence, job of governments should be to defend it without reservation.
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Press Hands a Victory to Creeping Sharia
UK and US media have decided it is not their job to help you understand this story.
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Ohio Expected to Rein In Class Linked to ID
A reversal in Ohio could signal turn against ID since Kitzmiller decision.
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Child Abuse
Evangelist trains 2,300 students to reject most geology, paleontology, evolutionary biology as lies.
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Peter Strawson 1919-2006
Oxford philosopher who made influential contributions to problems of language and metaphysics.
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BHL on the Comatose American Left
Through the looking glass of the US ‘left’ lies a desert, a deafening silence, a cosmic ideological void.
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Terry Eagleton in Condescending Vein
Don’t even try ‘to defend orientalism from the charge of complicity with imperial power.’
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Jean Baudrillard Frets About Shopping Centres
Perhaps the rioters prefer to see cars burning than to dream of one day driving them
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David Pannick QC on Begum v Denbigh HS
Whether a secular school may protect other pupils from religious pressures on women.
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A C Grayling on Start the Week
Hear Grayling and David Baddiel compete for title of fastest talker.
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Irshad Manji, A C Grayling on Reporting Religion
Talking at normal speed.
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Added Pig-face Cartoon is a Fake
Photo of man in farm contest faked to look like prophet cartoon, then added to brochure.
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EU Submits
Franco Frattini performs shameless grovel.
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Cartoons Were Published in Egypt October 2005
Egyptian blogger notes all the items being obscured by cartoon fuss.
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That’s not Respect, it’s Fear
And it’s a tendentious mistake to conflate respect for one’s religion with respect for oneself.
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Poll: Anger at Protests, Gloom About Future
56% to 29% said it was right to publish the cartoons in Denmark and republish them elsewhere.
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A C Grayling Interviewed
‘Knowing is not enough; doing has to come into it too. We’ve got to go out in the world and debate.’
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Priest Demands That Catholics Pitch a Fit Too
‘Catholics need to get up and speak out or be guilty of the sin of omission.’
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Pullman, Hytner Lead Campaign v Blasphemy Law
They have been brought together by English Pen, a lobby group for freedom of expression.
