The more religious schools there are, the more children will be separated by religious categories.
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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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Iran Defiant Over ‘Slur’
Blair, more accurately, refers to threats.
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Yale Gives Boot to IWW Anthropologist
Yale has refused to explain why anthropology department did not renew contract.
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Bush Reinstates Davis-Bacon Act
White House bowed to pressure from moderate House Republicans, restored wage protection.
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Bush Seeks CIA Exemption from Ban on Cruelty
Human Rights Watch not pleased.
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BHA Alarmed at Expansion of Religious Schools
Large ‘faith-based’ trusts to take over schools currently free from a religious ethos.
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Links Between B’ham Riots and ‘Faith’ Schools?
Segregating children according to parents’ superstitions a great way to create a volatile, violent town.
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Steven Fuller Testifies
ACLU official takes thorough notes; Fuller says interesting things…
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Miers Withdraws Supreme Court Candidacy
Bush complains about senatorial expectation of seeing relevant documents.
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Chomsky Pro and Con
Courageous intellectual giant or destructive rhetorical manipulator?
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UK Sociologist Testifies in ID Case, Cites Behe
‘Cards are stacked against radical, innovative views getting a fair hearing in science these days.’
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Wot’s a Dead Chicken Want With a Teddy Bear?
Or flowers? Who knows, but it’s safe in the arms of Jesus, so that’s good.
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Flowers, Tributes Left for Recent Egg
Well-wishers left bunches of flowers at the scene, along with cards and teddy bears.
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Makeshift Shrine in Memory of Dear Baby Chicken
People of Oakfield Road decline to believe chicken is chicken.
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Docudrama and its Discontents
If ‘causing distress’ is an argument for censorship, why restrict yourself to fiction, or fictionalisation?
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Postmodernism Is
What happens after you’ve been modern so long that ‘being modern’ doesn’t seem all that special.
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Vote to Amend Religious Hatred Bill
Peers voted to amend law to introduce safeguards protecting freedom of speech.
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US Secularists Hire a Lobbyist
She has an uphill battle when both parties compete for ‘most pious’ title.
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Iran Bans Foreign Films, Corrupt Western Culture
Elements named as affronts to Muslim culture included secularists and feminists.
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The ‘Muslim Community’ a European Invention
Europeans make huge assumptions when they lump all Muslim immigrants together, persistently and unreflectively.