Former BBC newsreader describes life in alternative universe.
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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Aer Lingus an Inspiration to Flexible Labour Fans
Had plan to make life difficult for workers so they would take voluntary redundancy.
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Evangelical Scientists on ‘Intelligent Falling’
Scientists from Center For Faith-Based Reasoning say long-held ‘theory of gravity’ is flawed.
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No Hidden Agenda, BBC Says
MCB accuses BBC of creating mistrust of British Muslims in a Panorama special.
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Sacranie Defends Mawdudi
Says efforts to discredit MCB stem from ‘Islamophobic agenda’.
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Religion Contains a Massive Falsehood
That there is a God who determines our actions and responds to our plight.
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BBC Rejects MCB’s Accusations of Bias
A BBC spokeswoman said yesterday that it would defend the programme.
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Website Offers Training in Urban Warfare
Instructor implores Allah to grant his mujaheddin victory over Jews, Americans, apostates.
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Different Rules for Different Religions
Nick Cohen says we pay a high price for defining people primarily by their religions.
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The Observer on the Muslim Council of Britain
Far from representing more progressive traditions, MCB leaders have links to Islamist movements.
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MCB Annoyed With BBC
Accuses it of ‘serving the interests of the pro-Israeli lobby.’
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Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Killed
Assassination blamed on Tamil Tigers, threatens cease fire.
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Pavan K Varma Reviews The Argumentative Indian
Freedom to interrogate has congealed into unquestioning acceptance of orthodoxy.
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Cheap Labour Necessary to Heathrow
‘Without them the airport cannot function.’
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Where Women Risk Their Lives to Run for Office
Since 2001 four women councillors have been killed in Frontier province.
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Three Women Speak Out Against Sharia
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Homa Arjomand and Irshad Manji spoke at Toronto conference.
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Ziauddin Sardar on Confronting a Violent Mindset
We must acknowledge that the terrorists are products of Islamic history.
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This Guy Teaches English?
That’s scary.
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Survey of Religious Beliefs of US Scientists
Natural scientists less likely to believe in deity – but not much less.
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Religious Right’s Weird Science
Condoms fulla holes, remote prayer makes stuff happen, Satan makes birth control.