Beauty for Ashes

This week we look at the hysteria around Elon Musk;  Trump Executive's Order for women; Biden on Presidential Pardons; Bill Maher on the LA fires; Country of the Week - Indonesia; The Indonesian Coal Magnate; Dundee's Great Victory; Djokovic controversy in Australia - again!  James O'Brien blaming Amazon and Trump for the Southport Killings; UK police on hate speech; Trains cancelled in the UK bec...

This week we take a more in-depth look at the California fires including - the Gaza ceasefire;  DEI in the Fire Brigade;   No Birthday Cake in Scotland; 'Country of the Week' - California; The Politicians and the LA fires; Was Climate Change responsible?  The Babylon Bee on the Miracle of Meghan Markle;  Squid Game 2 v. All Creatures Great and Small 5; Nicola Sturgeon and Peter Murrell; New Englan...

This week we look at what the Rape Gangs scandal is - including Louise Perry on Rotherham, Dominic Green, Keir Starmer, Jess Phillips, Tim Dieppe, Matt Goodwin;  Crimes of the Cross - The Anglican abuse scandal in Newcastle, NSW;  Transgender women in prison; The demise of Justin Trudeau; Government falls in Austria; The death of Jean-Marie Le Pen; Country of the Week - Greece; Earthquake in Tibet...

This week we look at predictions for 2025 - including Escape to the Country;  Luxury Travel;  The New Orleans Attack; Normalisation of Trans and Paedophilia; The Durrells;  The Simpsons;  Dawkins leaves the Freedom from Religion Foundation; German Elections;  The Ukraine War; Jimmy Carter;  Rotherham inquiry denied; Country of the Week - Colombia; Quasi Religious beliefs destroying Western Europe;...

In this final podcast of the year we review the whole of 2024 - including my album of the year; crocodile Dundee;  Twitter- X;  AI - John Lennox;  Bitcoin; the rise in anti-semitism; Syria; The Cass Report and the decline of transgenderism; Donald Trump; Country of the Year -  Ukraine; the failure of Net Zero; Lonely this Christmas; The fall of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Kings Speech wit...

This week we look at the world in the light of Christmas -  CNN misreporting; the WHO misinforming about climate; the Indian Chess masters; Chick-Fil-A faces more intolerance in the UK; Rachel Reeves and the Pensioner; The Saracens Head and the Terrorist;  Is GB News Islamaphobic?  Ireland and Israel; Sharia in Syria; Moria Deeming and John Pesutto; Lily Philips; IPSO and the Spectator; Country of...

This week we look at Syria, Rumania, Burkina Faso, Water in Australia, Climate Cooling in Antartica, Kim Leadbetter and Coercion, Abortion in Queensland, Gemutlich, Argentina gets rid of debt, Angela Rayner on housing, Anti_semitism in Australia, Victim of Islamist charged with hate crime in Germany, Muhammed the most popular baby name in the UK, Witchcraft in Australia, PinkNews scandal, the Quee...

1 John 2:23 - Do Christians and Muslims worship the same God? Do all religions lead to the same God? John makes a radical claim...

Using the paradigm of Oz Guinness's 'Our civilisation moment'  we look at what is going on in the world.  Rainbow - the Boots Christmas Ad; Guehi and Morsey; Smoggie Queens; Prostitution in Belgium and Germany; The BBC and Transgender women; Single women and IVF;    Red - South Korea; Biden pardons his son; Boris Johnson on the proxy war in Ukraine; French government collapses; Country of the week...

This week we look at the world through the mirror of the four horsemen of the apocalypse (Revelation 6) - 1) War - Israel, Lebanon and Gaza; Russia and Ukraine - 2) Famine, the Economy - Keir Starmer and Blackrock; the Great Reset; Climate Change; Blockading Newcastle; Ice cover and Oceans rising; Paying for COP29; Blackouts in Australia; -  3) Death - Euthanasia;  The London Tube; The World's Old...

I don't think there is a better description of the modern world than the opening chapter of this 3000 year old book....This was quite difficult and emotional to preach because I feel it so much....

1 John 2:7-8 - The old covenant law was a law of love. In what sense is that renewed in the New Testament? How is it a new law? It is shown in Christ but how can it be shown in us?

This week we look at the United Kingdom - the farmers revolt;  Steve Reed and Tim Farron;  billions wasted on facemasks; Rachel Reeves; the UK at COP 29; Censorship and the NewsAgents; Alison Pearson; Mary Harrington; Euthanasia; Dancing Donald; Biden and World War; and Tony Campolowith music from the Waterboys, the Sex Pistols, the Wurzels, Last Night of the Proms; ELO; the Beatles; Racist Geolog...

This week we look at the aftermath of the US election, truth, the 4B movement, trans language; Kristalnacht in Amsterdam; German government collapses; Japanese PM survives; Country of the Week - Azeribijan; COP29; Shell wins Netherlands Court Case;  Farmers in the UK; Euthanasia in the UK; Abortion in Australia; the fall of the Archbishop of Canterbury; Child Abuse in Yorkshire and New Zealand; an...

This week we examine the astonishing result of the US election and what it means for the world; who voted for Trump?  Kamala's Concession; Why elitist commentators like Rory Stewart got it wrong; The Influence of Rogan and Musk; Weirdness and Joylessness; Is WW3 now less likely?  Abortion and Peter Dutton; Is Kemi Badenoch a 'white supremacist in black face'?  Country of the week - Botswana; Is Tr...

This week we look at what it means to disagree with logic; the Southport attack was an Islamist terrorist attack; the US Election - religion and taking out the garbage; John Cleese; China flys to the Moon; the Japanese election; Country of the Week - Georgia; Spanish floods; Volkswagen shuts factories in Germany; Kings Charles visits St Thomas's Anglican with music from Supertramp; Alice Cooper; M...

This week we reflect on what real Fascism is - and its dangers.  The attack on free speech with John Kerry;  Antifa Blackshirts; Trump at McDonalds;  No questions at Harris's Town Hall event; Kamala's Money;  UK Labour, Alex Cole-Hamilton and election interference;  Country of the Week - Moldova; Romanian Orthodox chants;  Yahwa Sinar;  Chris Kaba; Prison Release; Lydia Thorpes anti King protest;...

This week we look at SpaceX success; the death of Alex Salmond; Not the Nine O'Clock News;  expelling John Mason; the religion of Harris and Trump; Harris fundraising and plagiarism; aiding illegal votes; Trump Biopic and the truth; banning allotments to save the planet; BP drops oil target and worldwide coal production goes up; Goldman Sachs and Global debt; Country of the Week - Kenya; Euthanasi...

This week, with the help of Jethro Tull we look at the US Election, media bias and vote rigging;  Thabiti Anyabwil; Hope for politics - JD Vance and Kemi Badenoch; Country of the Week - Tunisia;  Oct 7th Anniversary; Trans operations in the US; Drag Queens and Palestine; the surprising continuing popularity of snooker; Humza Yousaf remembering babies who died before 24 weeks in the womb; The churc...

This week we remember the brilliance of Kris Kristofferson; Lebanon; the new Prime Minister of Japan; Country of the Week - Austria; Kemi Badenoch - are all cultures equally valid?; Resignation of Rosie Duffield; the US election - is the US importing thousands of murderers?;  Islamaphobia; George Carlin on changes in language; Convoy; Maggie Smith;  Fabian Cabellero;  and the Mike Pilivachi scanda...

This week we look at Sri Lanka; Taiwan; elections in Germany; Bill Maher on immigration in Sweden; Indian Midwives and Female Infanticide; George Carlin on language; Al Fayed and the Crown; Van Gogh; A Bridge too Far; Misinformation in Australia; Mark Zuckerberg's Confession of Censorship; Jordan Peterson on Woke Protestant Churches; Steve Lawson and Alistair Begg, with music from the Proclaimers,...

This week we look at Scotland 10 years after the Independence referendum; the UK Liberal Democrat ban Christians; Exploding Phones in Lebanon; the Twisted Logic of Senator Chris Larson;  Does Abortion Kill Women? Truthiness with Mary Harrington; Ayyan Hirsi Ali on Immigration; Tucker Carlson, Daryl Cooper and Churchill; Country of the Week - Cuba; Sean Diddy; Huw Edwards; SEEK 52 - Knowing you a C...

This week we look at the collapse of journalism with Matti Friedman; the aftermath of the Presidential debate, Austalia banning social media for children; Aberto Fujimori; Deaths in Senegal; the Sale of the Spectator; Cancelling Morrisey; Decline of EV's; Gas Cookers in Victoria; Robert Kennedy on Ukraine; Under the Banner of Heaven; Abbe Pierre; Warren Goldstein; Apollo Quiboloy; the Heresy of Po...

This week we follow up on abortion - including Kamala Harris, Abortion in India, Feedback, Cameron Fraser on evangelicals and abortion, Keswick Convention and Abortion; Country of the Week - Germany; Banning X in Brazil; France arrests Durov; Nuclear war with Russia; Queering Nuclear Weapons; A man wins womens Paralympics; Bank of England goes Woke; Scottish Womens Charity accepts men as workers;...

Ch. 2 v.13 - War is wearisome. Armies get exhausted. Great empires fall. And at a personal level we get exhausted.....What is the solution? And why is this ultimately encouraging?