Nah, that would rule out hating the Pope.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Cultural Sensitivity About Forced Marriage
‘I wish I had been able to say to my parents at 14, “You can’t do this to me because it is illegal.”‘
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Soluble Fish in a Sea of Discourse
Raymond Tallis on peculiar ideas about humans.
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China Daily on the Need for Philosophers
In a society geared towards immediate gains, philosophy seems unable to produce tangible benefits.
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Fleming, Bond, and Popular Culture
Who wants to read about hitherto unlit quarters of the human condition all the time?
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Brenda Maddox on Republican War on Science
It’s a mistake to credit corporations with the same capacity for intellectual independence as academics.
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Birmingham Riots Thirty Years in the Making
Birmingham city council and government funding regimes have fuelled this hostility.
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Nick Cohen on Sectarianism in Birmingham
‘Our leaders aren’t diminishing the importance of race, but fuelling sectarianism.’
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Smug Theist Calls Atheists Smug
‘Our culture’s criterion of acceptability is not “Is it right?” but “Does it work?”’
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Communalism in Education Run Mad
‘They have a right to a Jewish education and…the state has a duty to provide an alternative.’
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Kelly Accused of Double Standard on Interviews
‘interviewing…insufficiently objective to form part of the admission process for a state-maintained school’
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At Least 58 Killed in Delhi Bombings
Explosions in crowded markets and a bus on the eve of a festival of light.
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Transcripts of Steve Fuller’s Testimony
Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District transcripts and more. Pdf files.
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Libby Charged in Plame Case
Aide to Dick Cheney resigns after indictment.
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Press Reaction to Ahmadinejad’s Statement
Calls for wiping people off maps tend to raise alarm.
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First International Congress on Islamic Feminism
Islamic Feminism cites misogynistic distortions of the teachings in the Koran.
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NSS Warns Kelly Over Religious School Expansion
The more religious schools there are, the more children will be separated by religious categories.
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Iran Defiant Over ‘Slur’
Blair, more accurately, refers to threats.
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Parents Demand Bussing to ‘Faith School’
Parents sue council over refusal to bus Jewish children 30 miles across the Pennines.
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Harriet Baber on Multiculturalism
White liberals have dismissed intellectuals critical of their ancestral cultures as inauthentic.