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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Raymond Gaita on Why Truth Matters
Its importance is not merely instrumental.
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Philosophy is not Just Self-Help
But the promotion for Penguin’s Great Ideas series might make one think otherwise.
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David Cesarani’s Biography of Eichmann
Scrupulously objective; the hatchet-job is reserved for Hannah Arendt.
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Eichmann, Everyman as Genocidaire
It seemed the right thing to do at the time.
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David Lodge’s Henry James Novel
It’s about writing novels rather than sexual secrets.
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Work of Art Thrown in Bin and Badly Damaged
Tragedy at Tate when cleaner throws away bin liner filled with waste paper.
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Hey, it’s Popular
‘Music is very important to black people,’ so if it advocates killing gays – er – shut up?
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Outrage at Harker on OutRage
Music is important to black people, and not being beaten to death is important to gay people.
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Free Speech Shouldn’t Cover Death Threats
Blunkett was right to ban animal rights ‘activist.’
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Excluded
Blunkett bans animal rights campaigner Jerry Vlasak.
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Common Sense Good, Political Correctness Bad
And the difference is entirely self-evident. Right.
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‘A Good Book Should Make You Cry’?
The lachrymose world of the problem novel for children.
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Margaret Talbot on Munchausen’s by Proxy
Naming a syndrome can create it, and when is a crime a ‘disorder’?
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From Multiculturalism to Where?
The city on a hill where everyone celebrates differences isn’t working out.
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Outrage! Plan Mobo Protest
Gay rights group to pressure the BBC not to broadcast the music of black artists who promote homophobia.
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Salim Mansur on Selective Outrage
The victims are black and non-Arab; the victimizers are of Arab origin.
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Convicted Murderer Flees Extradition
Chooses ‘green of life’ over ‘grey of legal punishment’. For himself, that is.
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Interview with Habermas
What separates him from Derrida is the later Heidegger.
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Adam and Eve and Steve and Bill and Sal and
What do nature and tradition really say about the meaning of marriage?