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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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Sorry to Disappoint, Still an Atheist!
Antony Flew clarifies some points that got muddied in the stampede.
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Mary Warnock Comments Spark Controversy
Euthanasia activists and Age Concern disagree with one another.
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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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Pakistan ‘Honour-killings Bill is Too Weak’
But it’s progress that male-dominated parliament passed it at all.