Pope says HIV and Aids in Africa should be tackled through fidelity and abstinence, not condoms.
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.
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Pope Tells Africa: Keep Chaste or Die
Church’s teachings of chastity and fidelity only ‘fail safe’ ways to stop spread of Aids.
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Women Call for Better Education for Girls Worldwide
Almost 60 million girls lack chance to go to school.
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Polly Toynbee on Religious Hatred Bill
Enlightenment values under growing threat from collective softening of the brain.
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Yes, That’s the Problem
‘Line in the sand which indicates to people a line beyond which they cannot go.’
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Racial and Religious Hatred Bill
‘For “racial hatred” substitute “racial or religious hatred”.’
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Slightly Woolly Review of Michael Shermer Book
Woolly about Tierney book, ‘evenhandedness,’ but worth a read.
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The Difficulties of Being a Mitigated Sceptic
Degrees of doubt and questioning don’t work with sound bites.
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Radio 4 on John Mack and ‘Alien Abduction’
The stupidest, most credulous half hour you’ll ever listen to.
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Mugabe’s ‘Urban Clean-up’ Continues
‘People disappear and you don’t know what happened to them all.’
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Religious Hatred Law
More mischief-making claims predicted.
External Resources
- Ban ‘Life of Brian’?
‘There is a clear difference,’ says spokeswoman. But is there? - Blunkett Defends the Offence
Making it illegal to stir up hatred against people because of their religious beliefs. - Johann Hari
Even the left is reluctant to criticise religion. - Madeleine Bunting Approves
We all know religious hatred when we see it, but as a legal concept, it’s complex. - Nick Cohen
Deplores the sinister absurdity of Blunkett’s latest proposal for dealing with religious hatred. - Pisstaking Will Be Allowed
But will it? - Polly Toynbee
We must be free to criticise religion without being called racist - Rowan Atkinson Against Censorship
A veneer of tolerance concealing a snake.
- Ban ‘Life of Brian’?
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Students Assault Academics
Problem more widespread than previous research had shown.
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Greatest Philosopher Shortlist – Vote Now
Hume, Mill, Spinoza, Marx, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Aristotle, Plato?
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Heidegger, Hölderlin, and the Ister
Film is reinvigorating a conversation among philosophers.
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All Shall Have Prizes
University is a consumer product and teachers are servants.
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Alan Ryan on Harvard and its Rivals
Harvard view of MIT: a hangout for nerds and social inadequates.
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Professor Carey Will Have His Fun
Is art merely a way for people to show off? Or is there more to it than that?
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Religion in the US
Enthusiasm for influence of ‘religious leaders’ greater than in other industrialized countries.
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Marx is not Buried Under All That Rubble
Francis Wheen on Marx’s metaphoric but piercing accuracy about the beast.
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The PM, the Philosopher and the Stigmata
BHL woke in the night with bleeding hands.