Chief Whip flings biography across Commons; gesture seen as expressing frustration.… Read the rest
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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Reclaiming Sartre 
Dec 14th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Rebecca Pitt reviews Ian Birchall’s Sartre Against Stalinism.… Read the rest
Mary Warnock Comments Spark Controversy
Dec 13th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Euthanasia activists and Age Concern disagree with one another.… Read the rest
Guardian on Warnock Controversy
Dec 13th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
With links to relevant sites.… Read the rest
Interview with Amartya Sen
Dec 13th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The structural conditions for human equality, capabilities, and freedom.… Read the rest
Sorry to Disappoint, Still an Atheist!
Dec 13th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Antony Flew clarifies some points that got muddied in the stampede.… Read the rest
Interview with Mary Warnock
Dec 13th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
There is no place for spiritualism or sentiment in the law. … Read the rest
Cool New Angel Book
Dec 12th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Did you know Charlie’s are not actually real angels?… Read the rest
Steven Rose on Labour’s Experiment With Science
Dec 12th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Industrialists were brought in to run universities.… Read the rest
‘Brown-skinned Women Contradict the Party Line’
Dec 12th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Nick Cohen on Index on Censorship and Blunkett’s swell idea.… Read the rest
MP Khalid Mahmood on Religious Hatred Law
Dec 12th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Proposed new law could have been used to ‘edit’ Satanic Verses.… Read the rest
Why Republicans Shun Academia
Dec 12th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
It doesn’t pay well and it disapproves of gut-thinking.… Read the rest
Flew Now a Deist
Dec 11th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Famous atheist philosopher moves towards theism.… Read the rest
Antony Flew Goes Deist
Dec 11th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Thinks some sort of intelligence or first cause must have created universe.… Read the rest
Pakistan ‘Honour-killings Bill is Too Weak’
Dec 10th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
But it’s progress that male-dominated parliament passed it at all.… Read the rest
Claims of Sex Abuse in Madrassas
Dec 10th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Clerics reply with death threats.… Read the rest
Marriages Made in Hell
Dec 10th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Beaten, threatened, imprisoned.… Read the rest
Mo Cult Studs
Dec 9th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Important for nomos to be anti-anti-Mormon – and contrariwise.… Read the rest
Can Epistemology Help?
Dec 9th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Philosopher debunks Kentucky-fried rat and other urban and rural legends.… Read the rest
Bulletin on Women’s Rights in Middle East
Dec 9th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Unequal divorce law in Egypt, law on honour killing in Pakistan, and more.… Read the rest
