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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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At Least Let Us Give Them Names
The twelve Nepalese workers murdered in Iraq had names.
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Churchill’s Wife’s Maid’s Sister’s Daughter
OUP, publishers of Dictionary of National Biography, inflated number of women to even things out.
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‘Activists’ Plan Ten Attacks a Day
Animal rights campaigners threaten at least ten terror attacks a night.
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Fry on McCrum on P.G. Wodehouse
Misguided to interpret his life according to contemporary moral and psychological shibboleths.
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Friday Afternoon, Kids Coming Out of School
The idea that had we negotiated with the Taliban, kids would now be safe in Beslan, is just wishful thinking.
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Less Famous Hostages
About 20 hostages, of a dozen nationalities, are still captive in Iraq.
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The Aim was Humiliation
Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiongo & his wife Mary Njeeri were assaulted on return.
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African Literature Association Reacts With Horror
‘all people who support freedom of the press, women’s rights, writer’s rights to free expression need to be alarmed’
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‘It All Started In Our Libraries’
Charles Onyango-Obbo links attack on Ngugi to books with pages torn out.
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An Abominable ‘Achievement’
Abdel Rahman al-Rashed laments that terrorism has become an Islamic enterprise.
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Iraqi President Postpones Visit to France
French foreign ministry cited situation of kidnapped journalists.
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French Journalists ‘About to be Freed’?
Influential Sunni Muslim organisation in Baghdad said Friday the two were safe.
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The Nuisance Value of an Entrenched Vocabulary
If you can ignore it, it’s not a nuisance.
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Deeply Though Subtly Subversive
The aim was to replace unexamined religious belief with empirical knowledge and reason.
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Extract From Dawkins’ New Book
Echolocation has evolved at least four times, eyes more than forty times.
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Another List of Ten Books
This one by writers with a score to settle.
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Paper by Creationist in Real Science Journal
Someone from the Discovery Institute got one past the editors.
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Panda’s Thumb Critiques Creationist Paper
In great detail.
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Stupidest Article You’ll Ever See in the CHE
Dammit, education is for jobs, not just to learn stuff!