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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Stanley Fish’s Original Intentions
Skeptical of tendency to blur distinction between scholarship and politics.
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Textbooks in Gujarat Praise Hitler
Human rights campaigners protest, Gujarat government dismisses charges as baseless.
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Critical Literacy for Schoolchildren
Not all that useful.
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‘From Picture Book to Literary Theory’
Deconstructing binary oppositions in Bambi.
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This Little Pig Goes Pomo
Spelling, arithmetic, milk and cookies, critical literacy.
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Recommendations on Animals’ ‘Moral Status’
Panel discusses implications of implanting human stem cells into non-human primate brains.
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Anthony Grayling Reviews Simon Blackburn
Contemporary thought in danger of drowning in a watery, promiscuous slop of ideas.
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Craving For Immortality and Legendary Status
The bomber hopes to make his triumphant, bloody mark upon the world.
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Irshad Manji on the Danger of Literalism
We Muslims are raised to believe the Koran is the perfect manifesto of God’s will.
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Boat Rocker Sent Ashore by Guardian
Dilpazier Aslam’s membership of Hizb ut-Tahrir incompatible with newspaper job.
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Background: the Guardian and Dilpazier Aslam
Guardian actively increases diversity of its staff. Diversity can mean many things.
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More Background on Guardian and Aslam
Blogger rebuked for staying indoors.
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More Than 150 Polio Cases in Indonesia
Officials trace outbreak to Nigeria, where radical Muslim clerics called vaccinations a US plot.
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UN Report Puts Pressure on Mugabe
African leaders who have hesitated to condemn Mugabe may now feel it is time to speak out.
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Car Bombs Kill At Least 43 in Sharm el-Sheikh
Egyptian resort on Red Sea is popular with tourists.
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Roger Scruton Has a Sensitive Side
Lunch on sausages from the pig named Singer.
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Man Shot at Stockwell Not Connected to Bombings
The human rights organisation Liberty said no one should ‘rush to judgment.’
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Art Needs Irresponsibility
Novels can liberate us from the debilitating certainties of God and hero worship.
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On the Run
Up to four disappointed bombers.