Anything that conflicts with the Grievance discounted, anything that contributes to it emphasised.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Multiculturalism is at a Moment of Truth
Drift from melting-pot altruism into salad-bowl separatism has morphed into something more sinister.
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Women Are Known to Like Everything New
So they’d always want a new car so they must not be allowed to drive.
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No One Goes to Marylebone Starbucks to Shoot Up
But why does anyone go to Starbucks? Frappucino, music, comfy chairs.
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Jeremy Waldron on Judicial Review
What passes for ‘reasoning’ in Supreme Court decisions is not about rights at all.
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Mark Tushnet Replies to Waldron and Tribe
Democracy, rights, interests; legislators, judges; how to reconcile.
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Lawrence Tribe on Judicial Review
Let the people decide? Dangerous sport.
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High School Students Want More Challenge
Almost two-thirds say they would work harder if courses were more demanding or interesting.
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The Increasingly Fraught Word ‘Multiculturalism’
People who come from small villages and know nothing about living in the outside world.
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Why We Signed ‘Unite Against Terror’
Compelling reasons.
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Apologists for Jihadists Not ‘Left’
They are representatives of an illiberal post-modernist dunciad.
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Problem is a Pernicious Ideology
The cricket test is not all that informative.
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Marx’s Philosophy, a Summary: You Get Screwed
Marx good on symptoms, but vague – a born-again amateur Hegelian – on cures.
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Marx Only Philosopher People Have Heard Of?
Nor do our home-grown philosophers really punch their weight.
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Toronto Conference on Sharia Law [pdf]
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Irshad Manji, Homa Arjomand on globalization of political Islam.
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Nick Cohen on the BBC’s Special Vocabulary
The pressure of events has pushed neutrality into euphemism.
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Tariq Panja on Religious Automatons
‘He’s only six; he’s finished the Koran’. So what? What has the child understood?
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Daily Mail Vilifies Penniless Asylum Seeker
Because he won greatest philosopher poll. Francis Wheen on Marx.
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Talk of War Merely Bigs Up the Terrorists
‘When is someone going to get 18th century on Islam’s mediaeval ass?’
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Catholic Church Organizing Protests in Spain
Demo against gay marriage had air of nostalgia for certainties of Franco era.