Said to have been that way since May, but followers have been concealing him at night.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Some Kinds of ‘Diversity’ are not Educational
‘Diverse’ accounts of origin of species don’t belong in science class, for instance.
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It’s Islam Awareness Week, Children
‘The Muslim Council of Britain is an excellent first port of call.’
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Intro to Islamic Family Life for Children
It is usual for the men to meet at cafes and women to meet at home. Isn’t that lovely, children?
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Vatican Bars Gays from Priesthood
Unofficial translation of full text.
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Naughty Marlowe, Naughty Tamburlaine
What was that about self-censorship again?
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Apostles of Religious Correctness Get Facts Wrong
Tortuous historical fictions that include both subtle prevarication and bald-faced lies.
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A Rally to Celebrate ‘Faith and Patriotism’
Christian Reconstruction thinks Christian crusaders must conquer and convert the world.
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Baudrillard Talking Crap
‘What is freedom? We have a choice between buying one car or buying another car?’
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The Downside of Blasphemy Laws
What is the upside again?
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What Humanism Is and Is Not
Not a religion, A C Grayling says.
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Authority Based on Charm or Intuition No Help
Bono, Sir Bob and Jamie do not have to worry about re-election.
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Women Forced to Wed Rapists or Die
UN report says hundreds of Turkish women killed in ‘honour killings’ every year.
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Girls Married at Gunpoint as Compensation in Feud
Sentenced to be abducted, raped or killed for refusing to honour the ‘marriages’.
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Channel 4 Teases Audience with Xmas Programme
Two magicians will reenact biblical miracles such as turning water into wine and feeding 5000.
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Unctuous Praise of ‘Faith Communities’
Why should the secular state use tax payers’ money to indoctrinate a largely non-believing nation?
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Rousseau and Voltaire
Enlightenment not the triumphant imperial ‘project’ denounced by vulgar postmodernists.
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The Foggy Zone of Half-believed Beliefs
Where Bush’s American admirers merely saw cowboy hats, the French saw lederhosen
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Michael Walzer on a Neil Gordon Political Thriller
What were good people doing in the Weather Underground?
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Poetry is Itself a Way of Happening
George Szirtes on the need to love and distrust language.