Many have been granted in the last 15 years — sometimes added to legislation with little attention.… 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Inevitably links go out of date.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.
Rod Liddle Reviews The God Delusion 
Oct 10th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Resorts to familiar drivel about atheism as religion and god-shaped holes.… Read the rest
BBC Wonders About Papal Limbo-banishment
Oct 10th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Then, of course, there is the argument that if this can be abolished, what else is disposable?’… Read the rest
Honour, Beatings, Migraines, Forced Marriage
Oct 10th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Every year, hundreds of schoolgirls disappear from UK classrooms.… Read the rest
BBC Analyst Remembers Anna Politkovskaya
Oct 9th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Despite huge pressures on Russia’s media to submit and conform, she investigated and reported abuses.… Read the rest
Bush Injects Religion into Foreign Aid
Oct 9th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Has systematically eliminated or weakened rules designed to enforce separation of church and state.… Read the rest
Religious Right Shapes US Foreign Aid
Oct 9th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Secular groups are losing funding.… Read the rest
Why the Face Matters
Oct 9th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Times readers offer reasons.… Read the rest
Polish Consulate Cancels Talk After Phone Calls
Oct 9th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Kasprzyk said ADL and American Jewish Congress phoned; he concluded Judt was too controversial.… Read the rest
The Sunlight Foundation on Dennis Hastert
Oct 8th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The Prairie Parkway will run right past his new property. How handy.… Read the rest
Russians Mourn Anna Politkovskaya
Oct 8th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Politkovskaya was due to publish an article on torture and kidnappings in Chechnya on Monday.… Read the rest
Anna Politkovskaya 1958-2006
Oct 8th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Her reporting won international recognition for exposing human rights abuses in Chechnya.… Read the rest
The Goldilocks Problem
Oct 8th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Why is the universe ‘just right’?… Read the rest
Jack Straw was Right to Lift the Veil on a Taboo
Oct 8th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
A symbol of women’s oppression which stretches back to the times of classical Greece.… Read the rest
Cristina Odone on the Amish
Oct 8th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
It’s not just TV and iPods they reject: it is schooling beyond 14 and the emancipation of women.… Read the rest
Domestic Violence Among the Amish
Oct 8th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘One person came to me for protection, but she can’t go to court because they don’t believe in it.’… Read the rest
Dennis Hastert’s Real Estate Deals
Oct 8th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Speaker’s net worth went from c. $300,000 to $6.2 million, partly thanks to an earmark he authored. … Read the rest
Fanatiques sans Frontières Are on the March
Oct 7th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Timothy Garton Ash says enemies of freedom are manifold and ubiquitous.… Read the rest
Infallible Pope Undecided on Limbo Question
Oct 7th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
So for now limbo is neither here nor there.… Read the rest
Cardinal Protests BBC ‘Attack’ on Pope
Oct 7th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Archbish says viewers will recognize ‘a deeply prejudiced attack on a revered world religious leader.’… Read the rest
