It’s a sin to shag a sheep and then eat it.… 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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Saudi Arabia Attempts Reform
Apr 30th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIf women start driving, it will lead to adultery and kidnap.… Read the rest
More on Euston
Apr 29th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe most vulgar Eustonians are like an intellectual dad’s army. Hmm…… Read the rest
Court Decision Evicts Hirsi Ali From Safe House
Apr 29th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonJustice Minister Piet Donner is considering appealing the decision to the Supreme Court.… Read the rest
Julian Baggini on What ‘Being Religious’ Is
Apr 29th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAtheists can have awe, reverence, gratitude and humility just as theists can.… Read the rest
Overselling Climate Change
Apr 29th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAlarmism is bad strategy.… Read the rest
Jesus Christ! Cherie Blair in Wrong Frock Scandal
Apr 29th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWears white dress to meet pope, must think she is a queen.… Read the rest
Andrew Brown Interviews Raymond Tallis
Apr 29th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonGP, research scientist, professor of gerontology, literary critic, poet and philosopher.… Read the rest
Roger Scruton on Sigmund the Fraud
Apr 29th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAt every point where scientific method might impose its logic on the argument, Freud stepped sideways into metaphor.… Read the rest
Pratap Bhanu Mehta on Identity and Violence
Apr 28th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Is Sen too much of an Enlightenment thinker to really be able to explain identity politics?’… Read the rest
Millfield High Cancels Creationist Lecture
Apr 28th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonSecular groups had criticised the lecture as an attempt to indoctrinate children.… Read the rest
Drivel About Astrology
Apr 28th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIt’s not a science, it’s simply a tool to better understand the ups and downs of blah blah blah.… Read the rest
Women Allowed into Football Matches in Iran
Apr 27th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonLast month security forces attacked dozens of female football fans who had bought tickets.… Read the rest
Sport and Politics in Iran
Apr 27th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘We consider this a victory for the women’s movement’ says Mahboubeh Abbass- Gholizadeh.… Read the rest
Scott McLemee at a Historians’ Convention
Apr 27th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonScholars brainwashed into practicing disinterested, rigorous historical inquiry.… Read the rest
MCB Rips Up Anti-homophobia Plan
Apr 27th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonBunglawala disavows policy advisor, reiterates ‘homosexual relationships are sinful in Islam.’… Read the rest
What the BNP and Respect Have in Common
Apr 27th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonBoth make people’s wishes secondary to pseudoscientific abstractions such as race and historical forces.… Read the rest
Christian Discovery to Manifest Destiny
Apr 26th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonJim Cornehls gives a brief history of US violence.… Read the rest
Daniel Finkelstein on Euston Manifesto
Apr 26th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonPrinciples may draw on the great history of the Left, but they are not its present or its future.… Read the rest