Human Rights Watch reports.
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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All About Reassuring the Community
Writer expressed doubt about gay adoptions on BBC chatshow, was investigated by cops.
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Museum Employees Fined for Blasphemy
Organizers of ‘Beware: Religion!’ exhibition were found guilty of arousing religious hatred.
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Philip Roth Does Not Smile
‘Identity labels have nothing to do with how anyone actually experiences life.’
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Mistake to Hop on Islamist Bandwagon
Trendy government is prepared to pursue communalist policy redolent of colonies.
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Women Forbidden to Use Public Transport
Women in northern Nigeria forbidden to ride on motorbike taxis; religious marshals enforce the law.
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‘Theory’ Such Old News, Says CHE, Yawning
Then gives pile of quotations showing opposite. Very ironic, very theoretical.
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Hitchens Remembers Gene McCarthy
McCarthy’s 1968 campaign is one of the best correctives to the stupid cult of the Kennedy family.
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Munira Mirza on Race Awareness Training
Diversity training may reinforce the sense of difference between people.
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Chris Mooney Reviews Tom Bethell
Bethell takes the political right’s ‘war on science’ to a whole new level.
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Pamuk to go on Trial for ‘Insulting Turkishness’
High-profile prosecution has caused a stir in Brussels.
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Can’t Contextualize Any More
For Holocaust denial by a head of state, the usual apologetics won’t work.
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German Officers Knew About Holocaust
According to newly revealed transcripts of conversations between captured generals.
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‘Publicly Denigrating Turkish Identity’ is a Crime
Angry nationalism sees freedom of thought as a Western invention.