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Inevitably links go out of date.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.


Women Key to Stopping Aids Pandemic *

Aug 15th, 2006 | Filed by

‘To change the sexual behaviour of men is a question of generations. Women are dying now.’… Read the rest



Open Letter to Jews for Justice in Palestine *

Aug 15th, 2006 | Filed by

Shalom 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

The 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

Trend 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

Secular but nationalist.… Read the rest



More on Sen on Identity and Violence *

Aug 14th, 2006 | Filed by

What 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

HRW 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

The Amish offer only one opportunity to choose; the opportunity should be lifelong.… Read the rest



Uh Oh *

Aug 14th, 2006 | Filed by

A 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

Health 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

Critics 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

Section 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

Such 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

Post-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

Or, how to park your brain for a weekend.… Read the rest



Minister, Others, Criticise ‘Muslim Letter’ *

Aug 12th, 2006 | Filed by

Cite 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

Leakey calls comments outrageous, museum waffles about a ‘tricky situation.’… Read the rest



Fred Halliday on Arendt and Deutscher *

Aug 12th, 2006 | Filed by

Both sought to defend core values that crossed boundaries of prejudice and narrow partisanship. … Read the rest



Multiculturalist Civil Religion *

Aug 12th, 2006 | Filed by

Don’t miss H E Baber’s comment.… Read the rest



MPs Say Forced Religion is Human Rights Abuse *

Aug 11th, 2006 | Filed by

Pupils should be able to ‘enjoy the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.’… Read the rest