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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Catholic Bishops Vote to Remain Reactionary
Also to continue meddling in politics and elections.
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Tricky to File a Grievance When Boss is God
Clergy enjoy none of the employment rights others take for granted.
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Prosecutor Vera Ngassa and Judge Beatrice Ntuba
Women and the law in Cameroon. Must-see film.
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Editor Sentenced to Two Years for ‘Blasphemy’
Committee to Protect Journalists outraged by conviction of Ali Mohaqiq Nasab.
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International Federation of Journalists Reacts
Condemns imprisonment of editor of Women’s Rights magazine.
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Reporters Without Borders Protests
Sentenced for reprinting articles criticising stoning and corporal punishment.
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Rosa Parks
‘No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.’
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Carry No Dead Badgers nor Hoopoes nor Bats
Like some eager perfectibilian schoolboy, believing it can banish cultural frictions from the earth.
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DJ ‘Highlights a Community Concern’
‘I firmly believe that something happened. I have no proof and no facts, but I believe there are witnesses…’
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Penguins not Christian, not Monogamous
Not designed. Director of ‘March of the Penguins’ irritated by Xian loonies.
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Rowan Atkinson on Religious Hatred Bill
‘This is about creating an intimidating and potentially stifling climate.’
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Witches Excited About Religous Hatred Law
High priest of witches pleased they ‘will be protected by these new laws from bias or persecution.’
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Bayley’s Tiresome Attempt to Tease Seriousness
Almost wilful flaccidity of the chit-chat, almost freakish resistance to ideas, result in mere drift.
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Toobin Reviews Breyer on ‘Active Liberty’
‘He trusts Congress a lot more than the left did…and a lot more than the right does today.’
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Two People Killed in Birmingham After Riot
Over rumours that African-Caribbean teenage girl was gang raped in an Asian beauty store.
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Birmingham Riot Over Rumour of Rape
Rape claim said to have been broadcast on pirate radio station, put out on community-based website.
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Group Offers Amendments to Religious Hatred Bill
Atkinson warns of self-censorship, MCB scoffs about media frenzy.
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Bladders Makes Least Funny Speech of Career
Rowan Atkinson spoke of the dangers of politicians pandering to minority religions for votes.
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AI Condemns Iranian Policy on Executions
Amnesty International outraged that Iran continues to execute minors and stone women to death.