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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Cass Sunstein on the Problem With Predictability
In hard cases before Supreme Court, total predictability compromises judicial independence.
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Phil Mole Reviews Dictionary of Fash Nonsense
Says it’s not too bad.
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Piquant Mix of Fundamentalism and Dreck
‘To write them off as pulp fiction for the born-again is’ the best thing to do.
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Gary Taylor: Why All the Shakespeare?
So that people can feel superior.
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Labor Laws? What Labor Laws?
Janitors work unpaid overtime, threatened with firing if they object.
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Children Accused of Witchcraft in Angola
‘Patients’ chained to walls, boy ‘treated’ to death.
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A Chomsky Lecture Channeled by Monty Python
‘The Power of Nightmares’ is flawed but interesting, and aimed at adults.
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Police Say Bomber Died in Blast
Suspects on CCTV at King’s Cross 8:30 a.m. One arrest in Yorkshire.
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Bouyeri Says He Would Do It Again
Tells Theo van Gogh’s mother he does not sympathize with her loss.
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Vote Removes Obstacles to Women Bishops
Some men threaten to leave: women never have been bishops, therefore never should.
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Van Gogh Murder Trial Begins
Bouyeri waived the right to mount a defence and refused to answer judge’s questions.
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Museums Restrict Access to ‘Sacred’ Objects
‘Museum directors must not act as priests, nor must they treat the public as their flock.’
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New Statesman Reviews Hitchens Book
Has exaggerated idea of unanimity of left in disagreeing with Hitchens.
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UCL Cleaner Named Among Bomb Dead
Gladys Wundowa had finished her shift, was on way to college in Shoreditch.
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Srebrenica Muslims Bury the Dead
Tens of thousands of people attended ceremonies for 10th anniversary of massacre.
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Jack Straw on World’s Shame at Srebrenica
Massacre of more than 7,000 Bosnian Muslims happened ‘under our noses.’
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Nick Cohen on Manic Myopia
Magic of parochial reasoning makes Islamism a protest movement like Make Poverty History.
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Asking Why Will Dignify Crimes Against Humanity
Yahia Said warns against feeding the illusions of psychopathic murderers.
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Over Twenty Killed in Iraq Suicide Bombing
Along with six people in suicide bomb attacks in Kirkuk and Mosul.