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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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Inevitably links go out of date.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.


NSS Warns Kelly Over Religious School Expansion *

Oct 28th, 2005 | Filed by

The more religious schools there are, the more children will be separated by religious categories.… Read the rest



Iran Defiant Over ‘Slur’ *

Oct 28th, 2005 | Filed by

Blair, more accurately, refers to threats.… Read the rest



Bush Reinstates Davis-Bacon Act *

Oct 27th, 2005 | Filed by

White House bowed to pressure from moderate House Republicans, restored wage protection.… Read the rest



Bush Seeks CIA Exemption from Ban on Cruelty *

Oct 27th, 2005 | Filed by

Human Rights Watch not pleased.… Read the rest



BHA Alarmed at Expansion of Religious Schools *

Oct 27th, 2005 | Filed by

Large ‘faith-based’ trusts to take over schools currently free from a religious ethos. … Read the rest



Links Between B’ham Riots and ‘Faith’ Schools? *

Oct 27th, 2005 | Filed by

Segregating children according to parents’ superstitions a great way to create a volatile, violent town.… Read the rest



Steven Fuller Testifies *

Oct 27th, 2005 | Filed by

ACLU official takes thorough notes; Fuller says interesting things…… Read the rest



Miers Withdraws Supreme Court Candidacy *

Oct 27th, 2005 | Filed by

Bush complains about senatorial expectation of seeing relevant documents.… Read the rest



Chomsky Pro and Con *

Oct 27th, 2005 | Filed by

Courageous intellectual giant or destructive rhetorical manipulator?… Read the rest



Yale Gives Boot to IWW Anthropologist *

Oct 27th, 2005 | Filed by

Yale has refused to explain why anthropology department did not renew contract.… Read the rest



UK Sociologist Testifies in ID Case, Cites Behe *

Oct 26th, 2005 | Filed by

‘Cards are stacked against radical, innovative views getting a fair hearing in science these days.’… Read the rest



Wot’s a Dead Chicken Want With a Teddy Bear? *

Oct 26th, 2005 | Filed by

Or flowers? Who knows, but it’s safe in the arms of Jesus, so that’s good.… Read the rest



Flowers, Tributes Left for Recent Egg *

Oct 26th, 2005 | Filed by

Well-wishers left bunches of flowers at the scene, along with cards and teddy bears.… Read the rest



Makeshift Shrine in Memory of Dear Baby Chicken *

Oct 26th, 2005 | Filed by

People of Oakfield Road decline to believe chicken is chicken.… Read the rest



Docudrama and its Discontents *

Oct 26th, 2005 | Filed by

If ‘causing distress’ is an argument for censorship, why restrict yourself to fiction, or fictionalisation? … Read the rest



Postmodernism Is *

Oct 26th, 2005 | Filed by

What happens after you’ve been modern so long that ‘being modern’ doesn’t seem all that special.… Read the rest



Vote to Amend Religious Hatred Bill *

Oct 26th, 2005 | Filed by

Peers voted to amend law to introduce safeguards protecting freedom of speech.… Read the rest



US Secularists Hire a Lobbyist *

Oct 26th, 2005 | Filed by

She has an uphill battle when both parties compete for ‘most pious’ title.… Read the rest



Iran Bans Foreign Films, Corrupt Western Culture *

Oct 26th, 2005 | Filed by

Elements named as affronts to Muslim culture included secularists and feminists.… Read the rest



The ‘Muslim Community’ a European Invention *

Oct 26th, 2005 | Filed by

Europeans make huge assumptions when they lump all Muslim immigrants together, persistently and unreflectively.… Read the rest