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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Ian McEwan Felt Sickened With Anger
What keeps getting forgotten is that the people committing massacres in Iraq belong to al-Qaida.
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Iran Executes Gay Teenagers
‘The latest barbarity by the Islamo-fascists in Iran,’ says Peter Tatchell.
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UN Condemns Bulldozing of Zimbabwe Slums
Kofi Annan said ‘catastrophic injustice’ had been done to Zimbabwe’s poorest.
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Humour is Reason’s Greatest Ally
A racist assumption that we should privilege the beliefs of a minority.
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Roots
What to do about pupils suspended from school?
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Norman Geras on Apologists
Note the selectivity in the way root-causes arguments function.
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The Booklet Advocates Killing ‘Refusers’
‘The booklet could not have been published without the ministry’s knowledge and approval.’
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Disaffected Young Men
‘The evil programs on TV, the music, the literature, the magazines are all responsible.’
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Eve Garrard: ‘Not Just, and Not Tidy Either’
There’s no guarantee that good things will receive a welcome in the world.
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Famine Threatens Niger
Bad harvest, locust infestation, slow response.
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‘Animal Rights’ Arsonists Torch Oxford Boathouse
Animal Liberation Front claimed responsibility on Bite Back magazine website.
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New Incidents in London
Early reports suggest not on the scale of two weeks ago.
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Bang Bang
Detonators set off on two tube trains and bus. Celebrate Grievance Day.
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Getting Pesky Old Books Out of Libraries
Libraries now ‘active, buzzing, lively’ – just like any other coffee shop.
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More Like a Restaurant Than a Library
Maybe the absence of books confirms disposition to think them irrelevant.
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Straussians, Shachtmanites, and Bush
Convergence of two philosophical brotherhoods owes little to widely disparate philosophies.
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What are Religious ‘Rights’?
Is religion private, voluntary, individual, textual, believed, or public, coercive, communal, oral, enacted?
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Economist I G Patel 1924-2005
Thatcher asked him: ‘How is it that LSE always has foreigners at its head?’
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97% Odds That God Raised JC From Dead
Richard Swinburne: probability that God exists 1 in 2, ditto that he ‘became incarnate.’