‘To change the sexual behaviour of men is a question of generations. Women are dying now.’… 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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Open Letter to Jews for Justice in Palestine
Aug 15th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonShalom Lappin, Eve Garrard and Norman Geras on whitewashing racist platforms.… Read the rest
Hazem Saghieh on the Left and Lebanon
Aug 15th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe left’s embrace of an Islamist movement supported by Iranian mullahs would have appalled Karl Marx.… Read the rest
Anti-semitic Jokes at Edinburgh Festival
Aug 15th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonTrend to think the Left should hate Bush, Blair, US imperialism, Israel – and the Jews.… Read the rest
New Party Founded in Egypt
Aug 14th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonSecular but nationalist.… Read the rest
More on Sen on Identity and Violence
Aug 14th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWhat makes us want to see the world in terms of us and them?… Read the rest
More on the Department of Vice and Virtue
Aug 14th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonHRW says the department could be used to silence critical voices, limit women’s and girls’ lives.… Read the rest
Carlin Romano on a Book on Being Amish
Aug 14th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe Amish offer only one opportunity to choose; the opportunity should be lifelong.… Read the rest
Uh Oh
Aug 14th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonA third of nurses fail basic arithmetic and English test. But they need to keep records of dosages…… Read the rest
Pharyngula on Microfascism
Aug 14th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonHealth sciences are colonised by an all-encompassing research paradigm: post-positivism.… Read the rest
Controversial Berlin Exhibition on Forced Migration
Aug 13th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonCritics call exhibition an attempt to re-write history, with Germans as victims.… Read the rest
Gays Flee Shia Death Squads in Iraq
Aug 13th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonSection 111 of Iraq’s penal code has protections for murder ‘when people are acting against Islam.’… Read the rest
Nick Cohen on Stupid Ideas
Aug 13th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonSuch as the idea that the Islamist ‘threat’ is a phantom menace used to distract the credulous masses.… Read the rest
Evidence is Evil
Aug 12th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonPost-positivism is a dominant ideology so it has privileged status so it’s an example of microfascism.… Read the rest
Yippee, it’s Goddess Time
Aug 12th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonOr, how to park your brain for a weekend.… Read the rest
Minister, Others, Criticise ‘Muslim Letter’
Aug 12th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonCite problem with saying ”Well, change your foreign policy or we’ll blow you up.’… Read the rest
Kenyan Evangelicals Urge Museum to Hide Bones
Aug 12th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonLeakey calls comments outrageous, museum waffles about a ‘tricky situation.’… Read the rest
Fred Halliday on Arendt and Deutscher
Aug 12th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonBoth sought to defend core values that crossed boundaries of prejudice and narrow partisanship. … Read the rest
Multiculturalist Civil Religion
Aug 12th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonDon’t miss H E Baber’s comment.… Read the rest
MPs Say Forced Religion is Human Rights Abuse
Aug 11th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonPupils should be able to ‘enjoy the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.’… Read the rest