Beauty for Ashes

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