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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Galloway Says He Was Right to Blame Blair
Heckled in Commons, rapturously welcomed at SWP conference.
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Hitchens on Unappeasable Grievances
Unveiled women, the heresy of democracy, homosexuals, music, art, Jews, Hinduism…
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Trotting Out the Same Tired – What?
‘the bloody trail of blame leads straight to 10 Downing Street.’
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Amir Taheri: This Enemy Does Want Something
To take full control of your lives, dictate every move you make, and if you resist, kill you.
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Johann Hari: a Civil War Within Islam
Between democratic Muslims and fundamentalists who want to enslave or kill them.
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Chilean Court Strips Pinochet of Immunity
Accused of involvement in abduction and killing of political prisoners.
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Jargon Not a Monopoly of Theorists
Jargon, wordiness and evasiveness in business-speak: the Obscurity Trap.
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Explosions at London Underground Stations, Bus
Aldgate East-Liverpool Street; Russell Square-King’s Cross; Edgware Road; Tavistock Square.
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Group Claims Responsibility for Attacks
‘The Secret Organisation of al-Qaida in Europe’ makes statement on website.
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Crops Fail Across Southern Africa
The World Food Programme cites erratic weather, problems with fertiliser and seeds.