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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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‘Sponge Bob is Poofter’ Shock!
Christian group gets knickers in twist over tolerance pledge.
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Hadi Saleh 1949-2005
Iraqi trade unionist fought for workers’ rights, opposed rule of Saddam Hussein and recent war.
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Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali Returns to Public Life
Vows to continue as MP and in fight against oppression of women.
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Scott McLemee on Susan Sontag
Recording the experience of a mind trying to map its own labyrinths.
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Index on Censorship on Hirsi Ali
With useful links.
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The Independent on Hirsi Ali
‘We are talking about an international phenomenon here, not just a local incident.’
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Rappers Face Court for Threats
Den Haag Connection sang about wanting to break Hirsi Ali’s neck.
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Writers Against Incitement to Religious Hatred Law
‘if religious leaders had their way, we would have little literature, less art and no humour.’
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Home Office to Meet Writers to Discuss Worries
That the proposed new law on inciting religious hatred will stifle artistic liberty.
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PEN: The OFFENCE Campaign
Against legislation that could make it illegal to express provocative views on religion.
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Full Text of David Bell’s Speech
On teaching ‘reasoned citizenship.’
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Controversy Over Funding of ‘Jewish’ Schools
Quebec government denies that it is creating social tensions.
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New Biography of Francis Galton
Eugenics, statistics, regression, blathering sermon.
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Three Muslims Criticize Inspector of Schools
Article labels them ‘leaders’ and ‘senior representatives.’
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Letters to Guardian on Livingstone
Why does mayor talk to fundamentalists but not liberal Muslims or victims of Islamist repression?
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Fatuity Knows no Bounds Department
Humans pay someone actual money to talk to their pets.
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Muslim Schools Promote Education for Girls
Chairman of Association of Muslim Schools disagrees with Ofsted chief’s comments.
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Replies to Hobsbawm
Valid truths only emerge from free, fair and open discussion.
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Secularists Fight Back
Against the encroachment of religion on public policy and on the rights of non-believers.