Beauty for Ashes

This week we look at Britain's Father Ted moment;  Kirralie Smith and Australia's court mandating lying;  NHS and 'people with a cervix';  Schindlers List; Keir Starmer and Islamaphobia; The Afghanistan earthquake; Three Scots row across the Pacific; The Racist English countryside; Babylon Bee and Hitler; Dominic Sandbrook on Triggernometry; Aristotle and Alexander the Great; France in danger of c...

This week we look at some of the questions that we face in our societies....What are the dangers AI fake news? What's going on in the UK?  What's wrong with flying the flag? Who is Lucy Connolly?  Is saying 'we love bacon' a crime in the UK?   Why was Iran expelled from Australia; What's going on in our Country of the week - Burkina Faso?  ; Why is the ocean warming?  Who is burning coal? Why is N...

This week we continue to look at AI and its impact on our society;  AI friends;  The Stepford Wives;  Edinburgh University Press on Black and white; National Library of Scotland censors Women Won't Wheesht;  Men giving birth in South Australia; Country of the Week - England;  The Magna Carta; The Significance of Flags; Christianity in England; Ceasefires;  Triggernometry and Netanyahu and Tommy Ro...

This week we look at the subject of AI - Artificial Intelligence.  What is it?  How will it impact us?  Are AI companions for real?  Ethical issues - plagiarism, deepfakes and bias; Is humanity doomed?  AI weapons; Was Hiroshima necessary?  AI and jobs;  AI and money;  AI and Climate Change; Country of the Week - South Korea; AI and the Church; Fake Bible characters; Our Future is AI Serfdom - B.D...

This week we look at communion on the moon; banning Jews in Edinburgh; Kate Forbes resigns;  Lord of the Rings;  England v. India;  Country of the Week - India; Prison Officers compelled to lie; Chinese spies in the UK;  Angela Rayner and Muslim Heritage Month; Brisbane Anglicans reject Scripture; the Dutch self-generating sea wall;  the Chinese Vertical Forest City; The News Agents on the Quiet R...

Apologies - this is version 2 - we needed to change the format so that Spotify could accept it.....This week we look at Corbyns new party; the Russian earthquake; Proof that Australia pays women to abort babies;  the Climate Crisis and Colonisation; Cleo Laine; Netflix's Pride and Prejudice;  Gladiator; Trump in Scotland; Why are Rapes in Poland so low compared with other European countries?;  Tru...

John 3:33-34 - How do we know the truth? When we acknowledge Christ. He is the one given the Spirit without measure....and we are given him. When we believe....

This week we look at Corbyns new party; the Russian earthquake; Proof that Australia pays women to abort babies;  the Climate Crisis and Colonisation; Cleo Laine; Netflix's Pride and Prejudice;  Gladiator; Trump in Scotland; Why are Rapes in Poland so low compared with other European countries?;  Trump's Tariff triumphs; Robyn Williams on Golf; Sydney Sweeney and the Nazi Blue Jeans; JK Rowling on...

This week we look at the death and significance of Ozzy Osbourne;  Danny Kruger's Speech to Parliament; King Charles and Islam; Christopher Hitchens warning about Islam; The Epping Protests; Australian Government pays mothers to kill their babies; the health benefits of coffee; Hulk Hogan; England v Italy womens football; The Argentinian economic miracle; Ireland's record abortion figures; Country...

In this weeks Quantum we look at Muslim dogs, British Afghans; Masterchef; the Cold Play concert reveal;  Banning British flags in Brirish schools; Sandi Peggi and the madness of NHS Fife; Israel, Syria and the Druze;  the MP Rachel MAskell; Ricky Gervais on God; Baptisms in Bournemouth; Chariots of Fire; and the Final Word -  Acts 2.  with music from Patti Page, Capercaillie, Coldplay, Steely Dan...

This week we look at the return of Oasis; how to read truth; Piers Morgan and Owen Jones; Norman Tebbit; Country of the week - Uganda; The Mushroom Murders in Australia; Anti-semitism in Melbourne; Remembering the London bomb attacks; Tom Slater - Essay of the Week; The Texas Floods; What do men think?; Pale Rider; Fact Checking company closes; Jaguar sales plummet; NHS Fife pays to sue employee f...

John 3:10-12 - Jesus rebukes Nicodemeus - the teacher who neither understood nor believed. Do we still have them today?

This week we look at the subject of death including - Stephen Ireland; NHS Chestfeeding Workshops;  Billboard Chris wins in Australia; Chris Coghlan vs the Priest; Pascal Robinson-Foster's death chant at Glastonbury; Country of the Week - Thailand; Zoohran Mandani and the artificial construct of violence;  Transfeminist Pregnancy; Turkish Islamists attack LeMan; The UK Governments definition of ex...

This week with the help of Deep Purple we look at the cost of Assisted Suicide to the NHS; Danny Kruger;  Rod Liddle on the government's National Abortion Drive; Diego Gracia; Queer flowers; BBC News Presenter rebels; Transgender indoctrination in UK schools; Sex crimes in Scotland reach new heights; Migrant women in Australia forced to have abortions; Country of the week - Iran; Christians slaugh...

This week we remember Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys; Why Dr Who is so Woke; the rise of X; Boy George v. J K Rowling; Queer TripAdvisor;  Why calling children 'naughty' is 'unscientific';  Queering Shakespeare; the UK Parliament decriminalises full term abortion; Jacob Rees Moog; the Israel/Iran war;  Senator's murderer preaches; Bishop Bonnie Perry v. the Bishop David A. McClay; Bakeoff and Nady...

This week in what our society now celebrates as a quasi religious festival ' Pride Month' we look at the world through the eyes of 'Pride' - including the decline of Pride events; homosexual laws throughout the world; the death of Sly Stone; censoring Martina Navratilova; the death of Frederick Forsyth; UN warning about fertility; Police Scotland and Trans rapists; Edmonton Christian school defend...

This week we look at the Polish presidential election; the new South Korean president;  Geert Wilders; Bono on Gaza;  were some Vikings Muslim?  Where does the world get its energy?  Scotland's record abortions; Michelle Obama on womens reproductive health system; NT Wright supports limited abortion; Steve Hughes on Australia; Citizen Kane;  Musk condemns Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' for massively...

This week we look at Jordan Peterson on Trans children; Supreme Court judge questions whether biological sex exists; Sweden bans OnlyFans;  The sad perversity of Annie Knight; North Korean ship sinks;  Andrew Neil on Starmer and the lies of the UK government; Lucy Connolly and two tier justice; Country of the week - Japan;  China invented rockets; French MPs pass euthanasia bill; Frank Skinner - t...

This week we look at how truth stumbles in the marketplace - in the Church of Scotland;  the Pope; The war in Italy fought over a bucket; Woke history in the UK; Masterchef; English literature without novels; Cross Country trains and Pride;  How to get free health care in Australia; Country of the week - Uruguay; Is Israel killing 14,000 babies? Why Greggs symbolises Broken Britain; China's new su...

This week we look at Trumps Tariffs; Immigration in the UK; the new Pope; the old Pope's failure on African Christians; Assisted Suicide in Scotland; 'a bit Brexity' police; Thomas the Tank Engine a sign of Fascism; Country of the week - Pakistan; Genocide in South Africa; Mehreen Farqui and Climate Change reparations to Pakistan; Scottish government mandates indoctrination of children into Climat...

This week we look at the rise and demise of Justin Bieber; Steve Hughes on Health and Safety;  Slave Labour and Solar Panels; The Conclave; Nicola Sturgeon on Transwomen;  Abortion in NSW;  Corporations fund Abortion; The Australian Election;  Country of the Week - Denmark and Dechurching Denmark;  India and Pakistan conflict;  Reform's Triumph; Antarctic Ice recovers; Why are there Michelin Stars...

This week we look at energy failure in Spain and Portugal; fires in South Africa and Israel; the end of Grangemouth in Scotland; The Rest is History on the Rolling Stones; Comedy and cancer of Milton Jones; the controversy around Kneecap; Qatar and China buying US universities; Extremist journalist used by the BBC; Taylor Lorenz and Luigi Mangioni;  Oh Canada and its new globalist leader; the loud...

This week we look at Italy, Election in Canada, Australian Abortion; the retirement of Klaus Schwab; Terrorists kill Tourists in Kashmir; Is Katy Perry an Astronaut?  Are Irish hairdressers the key to climate change?  Ed Miliband's Hypocrisy; Teen Vogue on being Ecosexual; Is Have I Got News For You - funny?   The IMF forecast for global economy; The Minecraft Music; Reading Chickens; the death of...

This week we take a look at the Australian election and Easter - with the UK Supreme Court judgement on what is a woman; Jodie Harrison NSW Minister for Women on what is a woman;  Australian judge slams 'trans experts';  the Australian General Election; Dr Joanna Howe; Maryka Groenewald - the Australian Christians Party;  Religion in Australia; Finance firms back away from carbon emissions scheme;...

This week we look at the Grooming Gangs scandal and Kim Lam MP; Anti-Hamas protests in Gaza; Muslim 'Reverts'; Non Binary Joan of Arc; Country of the Week - South Sudan; Locking up Lucy Connolly; the Rich can keep petrol cars; e-mail signatures kill people; Mumford's new psalm like song; Trump's Tariffs; New anti Christian laws in China; A 'quiet revival in the UK; Feedback and the Last Word - wit...