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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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13 Greenpeacers Arrested in GM Protest
Campaigners held after they prevent GM maize-carrying freighter from docking.
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‘Honour’ Killings to be Reviewed
UK police re-examining more than 100 cases going back ten years.
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Pakistan to Treat ‘Honour’ Killings as Murder
Government taking practical steps to end custom of murder and other crimes against women.
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Europe Tackles ‘Honour’ Killings
European police officials meeting to find ways to combat rising incidence.
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Truth or Being Good?
Which should universities teach?
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Forget Math or History, Can You Kick a Ball?
Athletic programs can subvert the integrity of their universities.
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Some Thoughts on Crooked Thinking
‘the universe revealed by science is indifferent to our desires, aims and purposes.’
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Happiness Research
Economists need to understand the subject.
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Stuart Hampshire
Obituary by Alan Ryan in the Independent.
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Stuart Hampshire
Excerpts from Times obituary.
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News from Jordan, Iran, Afghanistan, Kuwait
Bulletin of Committee to Defend
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Petition Against Shari’a Court in Canada
International Campaign for the Defense of Women’s Rights in Iran offers a petition.
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Truth-telling has to Wait
Mark Lawson says political pressures can make candour impossible.
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Time and Effort – and Emotional Labour
Madeleine Bunting on emotional demands the service economy makes on workers.
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Guardian’s Joyce Links
Bloomsday, the Disneyfication of Ireland, new Mollies, O’Brien, Maddox.
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Is Smoking a Class Issue?
Are instruction and ’empowerment’ opposed?
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Cass Sunstein on ‘Second Bill of Rights’
Roosevelt’s 1944 State of the Union speech has influenced constitutions around the world.
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Religion in India and US
Two major democracies deal with divisions over religion.
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New Age and Skepticism: Two Cultures
What it’s like to go from chakras and auras to critical thinking.