They all do it! Protestants do it even more! And it’s only faggots who do it in our church so shut up!… Read the rest
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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Inevitably links go out of date. We suggest, therefore, that you make hard-copies of the stories that particularly interest you.
God Save Us From the Pope
Sep 29th, 2009 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIn May 2001 Ratzinger ordered Catholic bishops not to notify the police about child abuse allegations.… Read the rest
Freedom of Expression on Trial Again at UN
Sep 29th, 2009 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIHEU called for recognition that it is believers, not beliefs, that are entitled to protection against hatred. … Read the rest
Ariane Sherine on Atheism as Snobbery
Sep 29th, 2009 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAtheists just want to sneer at the working class, said Andrew Brown pleasantly. … Read the rest
All-hijab School Opens in Cambridgeshire
Sep 29th, 2009 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIt is being paid for by ‘members of the Asian community.’… Read the rest
Launch of Independent World Report
Sep 29th, 2009 | Filed by Ophelia BensonReader subscriptions support our effort in highlighting the forgotten and untold stories of the world to an international audience. Subscribe!… Read the rest
Oliver Kamm on Voltaire’s Children
Sep 28th, 2009 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘For cultures born of the Enlightenment, private religious belief is not so much an enemy as an irrelevance.’… Read the rest
Nick Cohen on the Return of Deference
Sep 28th, 2009 | Filed by Ophelia BensonClass warriors use the law of libel and a privacy law they have virtually invented to protect the wealthy from scrutiny.… Read the rest
Oliver Kamm Rebukes Yale Over the Motoons
Sep 28th, 2009 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Yale sententiously describes itself as “an institution deeply committed to free expression”. That is nonsense.’… Read the rest
Berlusconi Insults Both Obamas at G20
Sep 28th, 2009 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThey’re both tanned, hahaha, look at that dress vavavoom, the president can read autocues hahaha.… Read the rest
Pope Orders Europe to ‘Acknowledge’ Xian Heritage
Sep 28th, 2009 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘History has demonstrated the absurdities to which man descends when he excludes God,’ cleric said.… Read the rest
Seyran Ates: Human Rights Before Religion
Sep 27th, 2009 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIn Germany’s recent past, many people have forgotten that human rights must come before religious practices.… Read the rest
Australia: Churches May Discriminate
Sep 27th, 2009 | Filed by Ophelia BensonVictoria’s tweaked equal opportunity laws will still let churches exclude gays and single parents.… Read the rest
Blaming Darwin for Hitler
Sep 27th, 2009 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Here is a book that leaves the reader wondering time and time again if the author is serious.’… Read the rest
Steve Fuller Responds
Sep 27th, 2009 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Simon Underdown indulges in the pop-science fantasy that a clear line can be drawn between science and politics.’… Read the rest
The Repercussions for Muslim Women
Sep 26th, 2009 | Filed by Ophelia BensonDecisions made by Sharia councils have no room in British law.… Read the rest
World Without Lies is a World Without Religion
Sep 26th, 2009 | Filed by Ophelia BensonGervais is refreshingly open about his atheism, which can be risky in a country as pious as the US.… Read the rest
Johann Hari on ‘the Queen Mother’
Sep 26th, 2009 | Filed by Ophelia BensonShe would see her children for an hour a day and get them to chant: ‘We are not supposed to be normal.’… Read the rest
Ben Goldacre on How Patents Affect Science
Sep 26th, 2009 | Filed by Ophelia BensonDrug patents are a fascinating trade off between the benefit of incentive and the harm to innovation.… Read the rest
Ben Goldacre Sees an AIDS Denialist Film
Sep 26th, 2009 | Filed by Ophelia BensonDo you give idiots a wider audience when you respond to them? Are they marginal and irrelevant?… Read the rest