Taylor and Trevor-Roper dealt with controversy by simply getting stuck into the next round of acrimony and recrimination. Much better than a libel suit.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Sohrab Ahmari on democracy and demagoguery
Beneath the ultramodern veneer of skyscrapers dotting Abu Dhabi’s desert landscape lies an illiberal society that severely curtails citizens’ fundamental rights.
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UN Women is in trouble
Little money, turf wars, and tepid support bordering on neglect.
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Pakistani family on trial for honor killing in Belgium
Sadia Sheikh left the family home to study after her parents tried to arrange a marriage with a cousin she had never met. She was shot dead on October 22, 2007.
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Austerity for the Vatican?
Of course not. Marc Alan Di Martino looks at the accounts.
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Opposition to gay marriage is a unity device
Scotland for Marriage means marriage as a privilege from which some groups are barred – just as Focus on the Family means some families aren’t included.
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The Observer still doesn’t understand Burzynski
Entire communities throw untold sums of money at the slimmest hope that these patients will recover at the Burzynski Clinic, and the Observer finds this uplifting.
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Quackometer: the Observer’s response is a disgrace
The response attempts to justify its coverage and blames bloggers for “aggression, sanctimony and a disregard for the facts.”
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Nest full of dinosaur babies found in Mongolia
Unlike other dinosaur nests found with fossil eggs, the babies in this nest appear to have been about a year old when they died. Parental care!
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Observer complains of “vitriol” over Burzynski article
Also “aggression, sanctimony and a disregard for the facts.”
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Islamists win 65% of votes in Egypt
The MB’s Freedom and Justice Party, about 40%, and the Salafist Nour Party, about 25%.
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UK police reveal numbers for “honour” violence
Ikwro director Diana Nammi said families often tried to deny the existence of honour
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Paper wasps have facial recognition
This is the first time that scientists have discovered this humanlike ability in an insect.
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Kenan Malik on outrage
Muslims, Christians, atheists, liberals, conservatives – for every group outrage has become an expression of self-definition.
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Saudi academic claims that cars rape women
A report in Saudi Arabia has warned that if Saudi women were given the right to drive, it would spell the end of virginity in the country.
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Fatwa says mujahideen can kidnap and rape “infidel” women
It’s perfectly all right, because once they’re kidnapped, the infidel men don’t own them any more.
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Headline: “Fish could protect against Alzheimer’s”
Body: “this research did not account for lifestyle factors such as other foods or exercise which could also have had an effect.”
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Robert Talisse talks to Robert Audi
In Democratic Authority and the Separation of Church and State, Audi proposes a novel and forceful account of the proper role of religious conviction in democratic politics.
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NSS to Court: town council prayers are unlawful
The society is acting on behalf of atheist councillor Clive Bone, who had tried to have the prayers stopped.
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Religious believers distrust rapists and atheists
Even in more secular Canada, distrust of atheists ran high.