Beauty for Ashes

This week we look at the endless cruise ends; Constitutional crisis in Poland; Deadlock in Israeli elections; The French 'far right/left' killing; Scotlands paid non jobs; Abortion promises in Victoria; Country of the week - Serbia; Mbappe and Mao; Fined for letting your teenager work with you in the UK; Patrick Stewart and Walter Koenig; Australian government Paedophile website; Islamaphobia and Armistice Day in Tower Hamlets; 'Jew Free' in Sweden; MSF cancelled by the Swiss over abuse allegations; German raped girl accused of misgendering her attacker; Chick-Fil-A arrives in Scotland; Harald Bluetooth; the first personalised cancer vaccine; Poetry - Les Murray; Feedback; Election biding war for Hindu temples in Victoria; Jordan killers named; American pastors celebrate their polygamy; and the Final Word - 1 Peter 5...with music from Fleetwood Mac; Rod Stewart; Lore Track; Dire Straits; Ceca; Thunderclap Newman; Tim Hawkins; and The Red Clay Strays;

This week we look at the riots in France; Heather Tomlinson v. Andrew Neil; Attack on an Australian politician; Saudi Arabian Executions; Country of the Week - Croatia; Glasgow museum wants permission from the dead mummies; Gillian Mackay and eradicating Israel; Swedish education returns to pen and paper; an expensive San Fransisco Toilet; Snowy 2:0 price blows out; BBC Bitesize propaganda; Hamas apologist now senior BBC advisor; The Buddy Holly Story; Wisdom from Stephen PRessley; Giorgi Nemzadse; Danish turbines v. Swedish nuclear; Fishing and Pubs in Scotland; The Scented Internet; Feedback; poetry from Leonard Cohen; a New Christian School in Cessnock; the Final Word. with music from The Clash; Scott Mackenzie; Oliver Dragojevic; The Bangles; Buddy Holly; Nirvana; Leonard Cohen; Shane and Shane;

This week we look at Russian interference; The EU 'anti Russian' censorship; Why are the number of teens identifying as gay falling? What is causing high diesel prices? Discipline in Danish schools; Country of the Week - India; Christians demonstrate for Israel in Amsterdam; Muslim woman demands polygamy in Scotland; Mandani says Amen to death prayer; Somali rapist wins court case against NHS; County Councillor disciplined for opposing sex stall at childrens library; 100th anniversary of Winnie the Pooh; Paid to applaud; Sweden returns to cash; Fake indigenous story blocks gold mine in Australia; Poetry from Rabbi Burns; Feedback and the Final Word - with music from Boney M; CW McColl; Guns ‘n’ Roses; Ravi Shankar; Banke Stuti and Anish Masih; Mahler; Abba; Supertramp; City Alight

This week we look at the Cockroach Party; Trump's Diesel Deal with Russia; Houthis attack Saudi Arabia; Pilay wins Nobel Peace Prize; Progressives celebrate Oct 7th in Amsterdam; Humza Yousaf defends his response to Oct 7th; Andy Burnham v. Kemi Badenoch; Country of the Week - Singapore; City Harvest Church Scandal; Dundee Girls vindicated; The first left wing terrorist in the UK? Mothin Ali, Robin Harper and the Greens; FlyDubai attacker radicalised in Melbourne Mosque; Lucy Connolly and two tier justice again; Shabana Mahmood states that every woman travelling illegally to the UK has been raped; a teenager in Australia who raped an 18 year old walks free because he was an immigrant; Oxford City Council declares that biological sex is not scientific; Kate Blanchett interview on the BBC; Angus Young's faithful marriage; No. 1 Classical - Beethoven's sixth; The attempt to replace God at the French Revolution; NSW Judge rules that coal plant must close; Poetry Keats - Oh, How I Love a Summers Day; Feedback; Rev Brandon Robertson; and the Final Word - with Joshua Luke Smith. with music from Matchbox; Black Sabbath; JJ Lin; Sun Ho; Bryan Ferry; ACDC; Beethoven; Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers

This week we look at the FlyDubai attack; Danny Tommo and British injustice; The Iranian airbase attack; the Jamaican rapist who can't be deported because he is bisexual; Country of the Week - France; Students reject Pride in the US; The Police being trained in Islam and against Farage; The National Secular Society warn about Mosque; The Greens go madder; Tucker Carlson wishes Hitler had won; Partick Thistle go Christian; Swan Lake; Dame Esther Rantzen; Coal mines extended in NSW; The poet Joshua Luke Smith; Feedback; The pastor who thinks Lazarus was gay; the hypocrisy of Pastor David Wigington; The Pornographer who worships God; Who Created God? and the Final Word - Ps 90with music from David Bowie; Benny Friedman; Sam Cooke; Tchaikovsky; Alan Stivell; Plastic Bertrand; Dream Theater;

This week we have a bumper edition...so much going on in the world! Should music be political? Pasastoo Ahmadi; The Swedish election corruption; The CDU implode in Germany; The Houthis chant; Xi Jinping and Donald Trump; Deaths from Euthanasia in Canada outnumber deaths from guns in the US; Gang violence in South Africa; Muslim Suicide bombers in Nigeria; Country of the Week - North Korea; Liberal Democrats support men in womens spaces; German serial killer misgendered; Palestinian activist turns out to be Israeli settle; Ed Milliband announces £88 million for Gaza whilst cutting UK army by £30 million; Newcastle Knights in Dreamland; Irish players snub Israelis; Brendan O'Neill on the takeover of the Irish elites; Fauda again; BBC reports terrorists as journalists; Hamas bodyguard protected in the UK; Shanana Mahmood opens a new refugee route for Pakistan and Afghaistan; The attack on RAF Fairford; Abu Humza's wife gets another £70k for her state funded 5 bedroom home; Narnia goes woke; Muslims demand that John Cleese be cancelled; Death of the Pastors Wife; Die Fledermaus; The Bald President; Super Intelligence rather than Artificial Intelligence; Scotland's Education Secretary on what Education is; University of Edinburgh drops Divinity degrees; The Sahara is shrinking; Feedback; Poetry - Shamus O'Rourke; Jesus in Swansea; Salve Regina and the Pope in France; Jerry Eze in Old Trafford; and The Final Word - Psalm 1with music from the Dave Brubeck Quartet; Pink; Parastoo Ahmadi; The Kim Sisters; The Mooranbong Band; Pink Floyd; Strauss; Rush; The Psalms Project;

This week we look at the Greenland Deal; Did immigrants decide the Swedish election? Who are the Houthis? Country of the Week - Norway; Finnish study shows the danger of Transgender treatments; the predicted Muslim populations of Europe; Fauda; The Ed Sheeran witch hunt; Schubert; Deaths of Pressley Gerber and Bob Mackie; Simon Sebag Montiofiore's World History; the new Coal Boom; The Proclaimers turn to be cancelled; Feedback; the Archbishop of Canterbury awards an Islamist - then apologises; the growth of Evangelicalism in the UK; and the Final Word - 1 Corinthians 15:54-58with music from Midnight Oil; Edvard Greig; Ed Sheeran; Schubert; The Proclaimers; The Petersens; and Andre Rieu

This week we look at remembering 9/11; Bill Mayer on terrorism; the falling man; Iran kills a rapper; Ed Miliband targets Israel; Parliament rejects Euthanasia in the UK; Ashley Dalton; Country of the Week - Uruguay; Birmingham bans the Union Jack; Green hypocrisy on landlords; Professor and BBC 'expert' on Gaza sacked for sexually blackmailing students; St Pauls, Fabric and Sadiq Khan; Top 10 classical no. 5 - Bach Brandenberg Concerto; George Michael - Faith; The Roman Emperor who died from eating cheese; the Indian Maharajah who saved Polish children; Arctic ice at record level; AI controlled drones target Ukraine; The Dutch CO2 carbon capture centre; Feedback; James Talarico's heretical beliefs; Compassion and Hillsong; The Final Word - the Lord's Prayer. with music from Paul Simon; The Who; Jorge Dexler; Praxis; Jeff Mills; George Michael; Bach; Radiohead; Alma Deutscher; Sister Janet Mead;

This week we look at the AFD shock in Germany; the Green politician who married a Nazi; Country of the Week - Thailand; Leonard Cohen on Woke culture; Scottish boys being asked if they are pregnant; White privilege in the Scottish Ambulance service; The civil servant who identifies as a cat; White women explains why Muslims don't like dogs; Rapist appointed to police by diversity panel, rapes again; surrogacy in Australia; Dundee Uni suspends philosophy; Top ten classical - no 6 - Mozart; Wendall Berry; Cassandra Wilson; The Rest is History in the New York Times; African Savannah greens; Kale - the hyped 'superfood'; Feedback; Chaplains at Download; Joel Osteen's 1, 000th sermon; The MercyMe child sponsorship scam; and the Final Word - Psalm 13. With music from Phil Ochs; Bird Thongchai; Leonard Cohen; Mozart; Cassandra Wilson; The Imperials; Cabbage; Supertramp; Sovereign Grace Music; Guns and Roses;

This week we celebrate the life and legacy of Dolly Parton; look at the tragedy in Nepal; Iceland as country of the week; the Cambridge professor of education attacking Western education; Belfast City Council celebrating abortion; the death of Yayoi Kusama; the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation banning 9/11 being described as terrorism; No.7 classical top ten - Saint Saens; The British tea spy in China; the real cost of Ed Millibands Net Zero; Feedback; Stella O'Malley on suicide; the decline of Paula White; and the Final Word - with music from Dolly Parton, Bjork; Sigurbrornson; Saints Saens; and The Sensational Alex Harvey Band.

This week we look Norway removing benefits from immigrants; the debts of the US, UK, Australia and China; Iran kills doctors for treating the wounded; Sepher Amierzadeh; Ukraine war; Brazilian elections; Ebola in the Congo; Country of the week - Russia; Humza Yousafs sister promotes Islam in Scotland; Colin Brazier on Bradford; Chelsea Clinton on abortion; Indigenous Australia attacked for being a 'Zio'; Shania Twain and Harry Styles; Bike speed limit introduced in Cambridge; Death of Frank Beard; More archaeological evidence for the Exodus; Solar farm in Scotland destroys arable land; The world is greening; Coal mines in the Hunter Valley extended; How did Fauci lie? Song of the week - Bob Dylan; Feedback; Is sugar and milk coffee anti male? The pimping out of Brisbane cathedral; Hypocritical minister in Scotland denounced during a service by his wife; and the Final Word - Habakkuk 2:14 with music from Dire Straits; Shakila; Metallica; Red Army Choir; Shania Twain; Henri De Bailley; ZZ Top; Bob Dylan; Rachmanninov;

This week we look at the Solar Eclipse; Earthquakes in Colombia and Indonesia; Is there famine in Gaza? Islam in Tajikistan; Country of the Week - Afghanistan; Islam in the US and the UK; Swedish injustice; Ireland's anti-semitism grounds planes; German swimming pool apartheid; Australia's Maoist school children; Miatta Fahnbulleh's private school hypocrisy; fraud within the UK education, health and justice systems; Edwina Currie suggests government provided brothels for illegal immigrants; Italian works of art recovered; Ritchie Blackmore feud with Deep Purple ends after 33 years; Top ten classical - no. 9; the death of Jason Arday; The great Isaiah Scroll; good news from Australia about the environment; Song of the Week - where do you go to my lovely? Feedback; 'prophetess' Katie Souza claims that her eggs have been harvested by Aliens; the Final Word - Psalm 63. with music from Elton John; Carole King; Aryana Sayeed ; Pink Floyd; Don McLean; Deep Purple; Shostakovich; NEEDTOBREATHE; Peter Sarstedt; and Wes Bayliss.

IN this weeks podcast we look at David Starkey's analysis of what went wrong with the UK; Delhi push for EV's; Irish anti-semitism; Canadian Granny euthanised without consent; Country of the week Hungary; The Cambridge fantasy ; The Green rape apologist; the Democrats move to the lunatic left in Michigan ; Unsung Hero; the death of Rod Liddle; Top ten classical - no. 10 Brahms; China's population history; AI Generates virusus ; Cutting down the Ecuadorian Amazon to save the Amazon ; Song of the Week; Feedback; Benny Hinn; John Lennox; and the final word from Titus. with music from Jethro Tull, Mohammed Rafi, Marta Sebestyen; Hungarian Reformed Church; Bryan Ferry; Brahms; the Kinks; Bob Seger; and the Gaithers.

This week we look at the craziness going on in some of the worlds top universities - including the Ceuta invasion; Country of the Week - South Korea; The Oxford Union Islam debate; Humza Yousaf on Islamic dominance; Police and Schools encourage Isalmism; Boy George supports Israel; The Walter Mitty world of Prof Jason Arday; Left Wing Terrorism; Women v. Men in sport; the death of Bill Oddie; Fauci's silence; Bill Anderson on Bureaucracy; Feedback and The Final Word - Matthew 12:36-37 - and Johnny Cash's most important song. with music from The Proclaimers; Johnny Cash; Supertramp; Boy George; BTS; The Blues Band; Coldplay

This week we look at Lucy Powell's view of education; Elon Musk v. the Economist; Injustice in Finland; Two tier policing re BLM protestors; Country of the Week - the Faroe Islands; Trump makes billions in first year; the weird world of Woke; Islamist attack on Pride in Berlin; Gil and Hartig - the Smithsonian; Stirling Pride and the Churches; The UN appoints dictatorships to supervise human rights; NGO's funded by governments; more than 1,000 men in NSW 'become' women; The ABC promotes sexual violence against Gina Reinhardt, and adultery; Megan Rapinoe and Sophie Cunningham; Kevin Keegan; Christopher Nolan's Oydssey; Classical composers and Murray Campbell; What's causing the heat in Europe? Cairngorm fires; Feedback; Why is there a 'no religion' campaign for the Australian census? and the Final Word - the Lord's Prayer. with music from Chuck Berry; Eivor; Dire Straits; Tchaikovsky; The Spinners; John Mayer Trio; Etta James and the Latvian people.

This week we look at whats going on in the world through the eyes of the Yackandandah mens camp! Including Starmers farewell; the UK bans Paivi Rasanen; the World Cup ends; Josh Kerr breaks world record; Country of the Week - South Africa; Jillian Spencer vindicated; Amnesty International against Human Rights; Scottish teacher banned for answering question about abortion; Reproductive violence taught at University training course; Sam Neill dies; Feedback; Niall Ferguson admits failure on anti-semitism; the Church of England fails on anti-semitism; and the Final Word; with music from Chuck Berry, the Battlefield band, POD, the Soweto Gospel Choir, JJ Cale, ZZ Top, the Wurzels, the J Geils Band, and the Byrds

This week we look at the murder of Anne Widdecombe; the death of Lord Mackay; the World Cup and religion; Norway v. England; Are Argentina being supported by a Zionist plot? Are Brazil too evangelical? Should Dundee have played Maccabi Haifa; Country of the week - Spain; Indonesia warns about LGBTQ culture; The UK Health Secretary now says that women can't have penises; the death and faith of Bonnie Tyler; no. 1 guitarist - Mark Knopfler; Edinburgh ditches Knox's bonnet ceremony; Kate Forbes at the ARC; Jennifer Aniston on Religion; with music from Otis Redding; Dire Straits; Bonnie Tyler; The Beatles; The Three Tenors; Lynard Skynard; Ruth Naomi Floyd

This week we look at the 250th anniversary of the founding of the US - its culture, religion and population; Angela Mackenzie on the Founding Fathers; Muslims at the World Cup; Trump's Red Card; Taylor Swift's Marriage; German influence in the US; Germany's sick economy; NY Pride goes after Children; The BBC and Trans athletes in the US; Yanis Varoufakis on AI; Feedback; King Charles stops defending the faith; Stephen Furtick preaches a different faith; and the Final Word - Revelation 3:7-10. with music from. Jimi Hendrix; Simon and Garfunkel; Taylor Swift; Duke Ellington; BB King; Connie Francis; and the Mississippi Mass Choir

This week we look at the Venezuelan earthquake; Ukraine war; New York forgets 9/11; Religion and the World Cup; Country of the Week - Austria: Imam mob leader gets police award; Reem Alsalem, UN Raporteur does not believe all women; NSW education department want white men out of science; Pyra Lara Bird-Leakey and the new SNP; The National cancels Kate Forbes; A new Bach song? ; Skillet's monster no 1 Christian song on Spotify; Eric Clapton - no.2 guitarist; Belgium goes nuclear; EU Aircon for the bosses but not the workers; Feedback; Bishop of Manchester supports draconian anti-lgbt conversion therapy; Geoffrey Donaldson; and the Final Word - Rev 22:12-15 with music from Eric Clapton; Skillet; Bach; The Who; Strauss; The Sound of Music; ACDC; Johnny Cash.

In this weeks podcast we reflect on Keir Starmer, the Iran peace deal; Change in Colombia; Fauci lied about Covid; The UK grooming gangs report; Ayaan Hirsi Ali on why all cultures are not the same; The World Cup - the nations of the world; Best fans of the world cup; Cape Verde; Country of the Week - Japan; Ideologies that kill - Humanism; Pauline Hanson on abortion; Men in womens prisons in Australia; California reserves government contracts for gay companies only; West Midlands police inspector spared jail; Indoctrination of children in Scottish Highlands schools; Disclosure - the Church and Aliens ; The Hawkstone Farmers Choir wins BGT; James Burrows dies; Bob Newhart; No. 3 guitarist - Robbie Robertson; Starbucks Korea have an AI disaster; Feedback; The NSS report a Church for its preaching; the Final Word - Reveleation 7:9with music from The Hawkstone Farmers Choir; Baccara; Oasis; Nick Morgan; Neil Diamond; Deep Purple; Robbie Robertson and Eric Clapton; Maasaki Suzuki; and Roy Turner