Beauty for Ashes

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.