Evangelist trains 2,300 students to reject most geology, paleontology, evolutionary biology as lies.… 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Inevitably links go out of date.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.
Peter Strawson 1919-2006 
Feb 15th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Oxford philosopher who made influential contributions to problems of language and metaphysics.… Read the rest
New Statesman Bravely Self-censors
Feb 15th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘There is nothing brave about causing gratuitous offence.’… Read the rest
The Economist Spurns Self-consorship
Feb 15th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
When freedom of speech is under threat of violence, job of governments should be to defend it without reservation. … Read the rest
Press Hands a Victory to Creeping Sharia
Feb 15th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
UK and US media have decided it is not their job to help you understand this story.… Read the rest
BHL on the Comatose American Left
Feb 14th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Through the looking glass of the US ‘left’ lies a desert, a deafening silence, a cosmic ideological void.… Read the rest
Terry Eagleton in Condescending Vein
Feb 14th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Don’t even try ‘to defend orientalism from the charge of complicity with imperial power.’… Read the rest
Jean Baudrillard Frets About Shopping Centres
Feb 14th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Perhaps the rioters prefer to see cars burning than to dream of one day driving them… Read the rest
David Pannick QC on Begum v Denbigh HS
Feb 14th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Whether a secular school may protect other pupils from religious pressures on women. … Read the rest
A C Grayling on Start the Week
Feb 14th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Hear Grayling and David Baddiel compete for title of fastest talker.… Read the rest
Irshad Manji, A C Grayling on Reporting Religion
Feb 14th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Talking at normal speed.… Read the rest
Added Pig-face Cartoon is a Fake
Feb 14th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Photo of man in farm contest faked to look like prophet cartoon, then added to brochure.… Read the rest
EU Submits
Feb 14th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Franco Frattini performs shameless grovel.… Read the rest
Cartoons Were Published in Egypt October 2005
Feb 14th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Egyptian blogger notes all the items being obscured by cartoon fuss.… Read the rest
Priest Demands That Catholics Pitch a Fit Too
Feb 13th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Catholics need to get up and speak out or be guilty of the sin of omission.’… Read the rest
Pullman, Hytner Lead Campaign v Blasphemy Law
Feb 13th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
They have been brought together by English Pen, a lobby group for freedom of expression.… Read the rest
That’s not Respect, it’s Fear
Feb 13th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
And it’s a tendentious mistake to conflate respect for one’s religion with respect for oneself.… Read the rest
Poll: Anger at Protests, Gloom About Future
Feb 13th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
56% to 29% said it was right to publish the cartoons in Denmark and republish them elsewhere.… Read the rest
A C Grayling Interviewed
Feb 13th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Knowing is not enough; doing has to come into it too. We’ve got to go out in the world and debate.’… Read the rest
