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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Nick Cohen on Suckers for Fashionable Nonsense
Homeopathic dowser healers, coffee enemas, feng-shui, expensive water.
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‘Shinaz’ and her Experience With Sharia
Hint: it wasn’t good.
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Blair Advised to Ditch Holocaust Day
‘Muslims feel hurt and excluded that their lives are not equally valuable’ says Sacranie.
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Midgley on Dawkins Again
Accuses ‘Dawkinsist’ orthodoxy of making the world in some important sense entirely random.
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Blocked Bridge Story Confirmed
UPI reports survivors were kept from crossing river by fears they would loot burn and pillage.
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Blame not a ‘Game’ but Part of Democratic Process
If officials were grossly negligent, letting tempers cool may not be best plan.
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Poverty is About More Than Lack of Money
It’s also lack of connections, cultural capital, skills, strings to pull.
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Seyran Ates on Multiculturalism v Rights of Women
Why is tolerance practised with cultural traditions that are clearly oppressive of women?
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Science Not a Patch on Mindless Superstition
Says Charlie Brooker civilly, after watching ‘Psychic Detective’.
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Ontario AG’s Statement on Arbitration Act
‘We have heard loud and clear from those who are seeking greater
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Sharia Protests in Düsseldorf, the Hague
Women’s rights are not negotiable, Homa Arjomand said.
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Ontario Urged to Spurn Sharia
Toronto protest was one of 12 in cities across Canada and Europe.
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Sharia Protests in Cities Across Canada
Opponents say the proposed arbitration process will violate women’s’ rights.
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Protests in Eleven Cities over Ontario Sharia
Demonstrations registered outrage over recommendations of voluntary tribunals based on sharia.
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Bush Declares Katrina Prayer Day
Praying to the deity who sent Katrina, presumably. Whatever.
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Demonstrators Compare Ontario Premier to Taliban
Protest against use of religious rules critics consider an affront to human rights.
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Katrina as Another Triangle Fire
Catastrophes make libertarianism look pathetic.
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The Good News Is, Pat Robertson is Thriving
His ‘faith-based’ Operation Blessing is on FEMA’s list of charitable groups.
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International Protests Against Sharia Law
Proposal that would allow Islamic law to be used in Ontario family arbitration cases.