Chief Whip flings biography across Commons; gesture seen as expressing frustration.
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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Reclaiming Sartre
Rebecca Pitt reviews Ian Birchall’s Sartre Against Stalinism.
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Interview with Amartya Sen
The structural conditions for human equality, capabilities, and freedom.
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Sorry to Disappoint, Still an Atheist!
Antony Flew clarifies some points that got muddied in the stampede.
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Interview with Mary Warnock
There is no place for spiritualism or sentiment in the law.
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Mary Warnock Comments Spark Controversy
Euthanasia activists and Age Concern disagree with one another.
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Guardian on Warnock Controversy
With links to relevant sites.
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Cool New Angel Book
Did you know Charlie’s are not actually real angels?
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Steven Rose on Labour’s Experiment With Science
Industrialists were brought in to run universities.
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‘Brown-skinned Women Contradict the Party Line’
Nick Cohen on Index on Censorship and Blunkett’s swell idea.
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MP Khalid Mahmood on Religious Hatred Law
Proposed new law could have been used to ‘edit’ Satanic Verses.
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Why Republicans Shun Academia
It doesn’t pay well and it disapproves of gut-thinking.
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Flew Now a Deist
Famous atheist philosopher moves towards theism.
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Antony Flew Goes Deist
Thinks some sort of intelligence or first cause must have created universe.
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Pakistan ‘Honour-killings Bill is Too Weak’
But it’s progress that male-dominated parliament passed it at all.
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Claims of Sex Abuse in Madrassas
Clerics reply with death threats.
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Marriages Made in Hell
Beaten, threatened, imprisoned.
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Theistic Politicians a bit of a Worry
Especially when they think they have a hotline to the deity.
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China Tries to Silence Public Intellectuals
By charging them with elitism.
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Are Secular Jews Leaving Jerusalem?
Fighting for the rights of the Other or living with the Other…