Beauty for Ashes

This week we look at volcanos in Iceland; climate change as the word of the year; the Panama Canal; Country of the Week - Denmark - immigration policy, religion, Babette's Feast, economy;  Taiwanese, Bangladeshi, Azerbaijani, Russian, American and North Korean elections;  John Cleese on liberalism;   Five Coffee facts;  Turks arrest Israeli footballer; Gary Linekar calls for ban on Israel in football; South Africa suspends cricket captain because he is Jewish; The World at War; Religion and Wars;  Richard Dawkins, Atheists and Augustine; 'Prophet' TB Joshua; SEEK 20 and Nothing Else Matters with music from Jefferson Airplane, the Danish National Anthem, Neil Young, U2 and BB King, Dire Straits, Dave Alvin, the Who and Metallica...

This week we look at beating Tetris; Cyclones; Proof of higher temperatures 2,000 years ago; the Scottish hybrid electric ferry; Taiwan; Ecuador; Ethiopia; Somaililand; Dutch Immigration; The US election and Donald Trump; Rewriting Robin Hood; One Life;  Covid origins; Choosing your religion and sex in the NHS; David Warner; JPR Williams; The Kaiser; David Soul; The Hairdressers who ask 'is it ok if I touch you?; Firefighters and gender; the Aztecs; Konstantin Krisin and 'Latinx'; Massacre in Nigeria; Rev Deanna Dudley; Bob Akroyd; SEEK 19 - Other Holy Books; 10,000 Reasons....with the help of Bach, Robert Plant and Patty Griffin, George Thorogood and the Destroyers, the Beatles, the Corries and Matt Redman

A new year means a new beginning - and a revamp for Quantum.   This week we look at Nostradamus predicting an earthquake in Japan; upcoming elections in the US, UK, Germany, France; immigration in Denmark; wars in Ukraine, Yemen, Israel, Lebanon; Claudine Gay resigns; Progressive media and the return of Ted Lasso; The trans bubble bursts in the US; England will win Euro 2024; Novak speaks Chinese; Luke Littler and the rise of darts; The Oscars go full woke; Munroe Bergdof represents British women;  the importance of Augustine; Pope Francis and Argentina;  with my Spotify top 100.....including music from Del Amitri, Bach, Christy Moore, Alena Cherny, Gustav Holst and 1,000 Israeli musicians and singers....

This week we review the major stories we covered in the past year - including Nicola Sturgeon; King Charles; The Voice; Geert Wilders; Ukraine; Climate Catastrophising; Trans fightback; Harvard Collapse; AI; Israel/Gaza - with sport (Australian cricket); Music (Taylor Swift) and Culture (Oppenheimer) and the Church (Tim Keller)....and the poetry of Joshua Luke Smith.   With help from Status Quo, Tina Turner, Armin Van Buren, Beethoven and Taylor Swift. 

Luke 2:21 - Jesus is circumcised.  Why?   Why is that good news for us?  And what is there in a name?  With Our Emmanuel from Dave Henderson and Friends.....

Luke 2:20 - The Shepherds respond to what they have seen and heard. A response of praise and glorifying. With the carol Silent Night from Dave Henderson and Friends....

This is our Christmas special....looking at the bad news in the world, in the light of the good news of Christmas!   Icelandic Volcanoes; Spanish Olives; Egypt's President; Ghana's mystery presidential candidate; Confusing Congo election; Genocide in Darfur - again; the Suez Canal; Wasted Covid Vaccines; The Spirituality of Kandinsky; Temple Universities abusive intersectionality; Islamic sermons in Australia; Hamas plots to kill European Jews; the heresy of Jayne Ozanne; Pope Francis goes full Woke; SEEK 18 - Mistakes in the Bible; and Louise Perry on Sin. With appropriate Chrismas music from Chris Rea, John Lennon, Bing Crosby and David Bowie, Boney M,  Mike Oldfield, Chris de Burgh and Bach! 

We look at some predictions and trends that have come true....the dumbing down of elite Universities; Bill Maher; the rise of anti-Semitism; the lengthy war in Ukraine; Covid - lockdown and masks; the EU Empire; Why Net Zero is not going to happen; The Woke World; Kemi Badenoch v. Kate Osbourne; Ryan O'Neal and Love Story; The Photographer Graeme Hutton; Squid Game reality show;  Human beings used to live longer; Church of England divorces from the Bible; SEEK 17 and Stephen Fry; with music from Fishermen's Friends, Marvin Gaye, Edwin Starr, Gary Numan, Pentatonix,  and Dan Vasc 

This week we look at media self-censorship in Ireland;  Venezuela and Guyana; the dumbing down of Scottish and Australian teenagers; Volcanoes in Indonesia; Janita Castro; Kim Jong-Un on raising children;  buying supermodel babies; Hamas on the Balfour Declaration; Islamic sermons; Harvard and Penn leaders on calling for genocide against Jews; progressive feminists silence on abuse of Jewish women; the Two Ronnies on confused sport; King Charles and the theology of climate change; Robot preachers; and cancelling Christmas in Bethlehem; with music from Shane McGowan and Kirsty McColl, Cuatrombone, Brenda Lee, Status Quo, Kraftwerk, Jeremy Camp and Theocracy!

This week with the help of Status Quo we look at Climate Change (Joe Biden pumps more oil, Aussie protesters at the largest coal port in the world, green vandals cleared, Net Zero costs in the UK, Humza Yousaf at COP28) ; Ireland (Senator O'Reilly, Leo Varadkar on Israeli hostages, assaults and riots in Dublin, Conor McGregor, 'too white' Ireland, the Irish economy); Israel/Gaza (Kay Burley, American progressives supporting Hamas, Australian Senator Mehreen Faruqi and Jews in the Bin, the Chilling Owen Jones); the Woke World (Dr Who,  Furries on the BBC, NHS trans row); Hypocrisy (Oxfam and Socialist teens); World News (NSW euthanasia, Kissinger's death, Ukraine, Burkina Faso) ; Church (persecution in India and the TikTok Quran fashion); SEEK 16 - the death of a child; Behold the Man..