Beauty for Ashes

1) Children, Climate Change and Democracy –

https://theweeflea.com/2019/02/19/suffer-the-striking-children-a-tale-of-activism-indoctrination-and-mob-rule/

2) De-Colonisation of the curriculum  

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/02/universities-should-resist-calls-to-decolonise-the-curriculum/

3) Hungary - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0002kzj   

4) Bishops and Popes

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/gay-rights-campaigner-shortlisted-as-new-bishop-of-glasgow-and-galloway-p2ghhsjjs

  https://youtu.be/NMqlAdpucNU?t=1476 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/16/us/mccarrick-defrocked-vatican.html?emc=edit_th_190217&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=577175610217

https://leohohmann.com/2019/02/10/pope-signs-pact-with-islam-declaring-diversity-of-religions-is-willed-by-god/?fbclid=IwAR1OrA407c97ZItr7AaQ2UoTgrkpzVw88D6vMFjrcdICoLpiYyBQ0pwYne0

5) End of Parents

 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/parenting/will-first-baby-britain-not-have-mother/

https://www.newsweek.com/mother-and-father-replaced-parent-1-and-parent-2-french-schools-under-same-1332748?fbclid=IwAR1rB8SB3iJdfgOoQJS8PZcNjcl_lHnP346XLCi4eEjR6QlTuJfYnxhZtTY

6) End of Men and Women

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17438641.iain-macwhirter-get-over-it-cis-women-are-just-on-the-wrong-side-of-history/?ref=twtrec

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/the-times/rules-on-transgender-athletes-reward-cheats-and-punish-the-innocent/news-story/7b655217baaca0bebcf191e6ff2adc52

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/staff-at-trans-clinic-fear-damage-to-children-as-activists-pile-on-pressure-c5k655nq9

 7) End of Babies

Call the Midwife - https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/bbc-drops-ban-on-giving-abortion-advice-after-call-the-midwife-row-hv9d5zd73?fbclid=IwAR3HQ6hlxJa2v8rE9LAFg57l34vMgSb4mgLYAxPWfdR7nQUgc4UAWsSK7xk 

8) Texas – Fracking - http://time.com/5492648/permian-oil-boom-west-texas/ 

9) Humanist Celebrants - https://www.humanism.scot/what-we-do/news/regional-celebrant-recruitment-open/?fbclid=IwAR3Of31OH41RcsRfyRIP0YxZmPHpdxUOhuOF154eraqy3vOK2twLpT65SJk

10- The Kiss - https://www.scotsman.com/news/george-mendonsa-sailor-in-iconic-times-square-kiss-dies-aged-95-1-4875070

11) Death of Ganz –Hitler - https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/the-times/actor-bruno-ganz-who-portrayed-hitler-in-downfall-dead-at-77/news-story/f70db86950040a17a4638193006e7a65?utm_source=The%20Australian&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=TodaySHeadlines

quote of the week - It seems that causing hundreds of casualties inadvertently was a less heinous crime than rocking the boat. (Page 401) The Somme – Into the Breach Hugh Sebag Montiefiore

• The Naked Brexit

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/02/what-is-the-naked-brexit-academic-trying-to-achieve/ 

• Selling Greece – Perhaps use a little Greek music to intro? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr6lVjHPxVM

• Gordon Banks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNLam4RAbg8

• Euthanasia - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0002cfb From 8:40

• The Flag of Domination- https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17428661.lgbt-history-month-glasgow-councils-decision-not-to-fly-pride-flag-is-slammed/?ref=ebln

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3555044/BBC-says-one-six-stars-gay-lesbian-disabled-2020.html?ito=facebook_share_fbia-top

https://www.upsu.net/articles/news/2019-02-06-guest-speaker-event-postponed

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/11/all-schools-should-encourage-respect-and-lgbt-acceptance?CMP=share_btn_tw

• Polygamy in Australia

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/lifestyle/2018/12/aussie-twins-call-for-law-change-so-they-can-marry-same-man.html?fbclid=IwAR32WeCutgtm_NbZwhFqpNEYMhwUjlucQ2ESnxGS08Sa9lRqXVfsX55Ff34

• Transgenderism everywhere.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/scotland-transgenderism-nicola-sturgeon-dismisses-feminist-concern/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6687123/Mother-arrested-children-calling-transgender-woman-man.html

8)     Churches Threatened

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-46891432 _

• NUJ – and religious discrimination –

https://religionunplugged.com/news/2019/2/7/uks-national-union-of-journalists-omits-religion-from-anti-discrimination-rules

Michael Green – 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW4MNMVTBXA

Quote of the Week: "In New York a therapist can tell a man who suffers from gender dysphoria that he is Napoleon, but not that he is a man".  

Gina Blevins Mendola recommends The Wee Flea Podcast: "This page/podcast presents important, eye opening news that you don’t get readily here in the states, given with a Christian perspective. The podcast are are the perfect length for me to get in on my commute home."

1) Liam Neeson - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxOPeiNU01I 

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb8KEpkCdRo 

 2) Donald Trump – State of the Nation….  

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5sZNXK2YZo 

 3) Brexiteers should go to Hell  - Tusk plus  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-Dx4Rnl5Og 

4) Whats’ an immigrant worth? – Jess Phillips…. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=9&v=ojjaUtremG0 

 5) Australian Drought – and Floods –  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=20&v=0gtv4G3p-Rw  

  https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jan/25/when-the-river-runs-dry-the-australian-towns-facing-heatwave-and-drought 

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-47112044 

 6) Kazakhstan  -  

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/02/kazakhstan-is-about-the-size-of-europe-but-we-know-almost-nothing-about-it/ 

7) Disney Pride – 

https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1092563199931633664 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6636419/Gay-male-couple-offered-IVF-treatment-NHS-time-Britain.html 

8) C of E – Trans Baptisms 

https://www.christian.org.uk/news/c-of-e-faces-opposition-over-trans-baptism-services/?e010219 

 9) Ken Larter – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwEn3qQBciE&fbclid=IwAR0MjqrwAfmfu3kKONtvNPlDFJIqrZkEY7Av_b0dC8WWhM5ISJG2d29d4Ec 

Support on Podbean Patron…. 

https://patron.podbean.com/theweeflea 

• Consent - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000248j from 36 minutes….

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/01/is-it-now-a-crime-to-like-a-poem-about-transgenderism/

• Abortion in New York - https://www.christianpost.com/news/new-york-legislature-passes-bill-allowing-abortions-up-to-birth-for-any-reason.html?utm_source=The+Christian+Post+List&utm_campaign=0bcebf941c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_01_23_05_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_dce2601630-0bcebf941c-2509241

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6613765/Facebook-rejects-ads-producers-controversial-pro-life-film-starring-Jon-Voight.html

 Trolling Christian Schools -

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/wall-street-journal/reporter-got-more-than-he-bargained-for-when-trolling-christian-schools/news-story/a4162f48a417c16e418ef4d9b20d2506?utm_source=The%20Australian&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=TodaySHeadlines

• Mary – Queen of Scots -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnqjSgMU36U

Quote from Theodore Dalrymple – Our Culture What’s Left of It

"In the orgy of sentimentality into which much of the country sank after Diana's death, and which reminds me of the hot bath into which I gratefully sink after a hard day at the hospital, one thing has become evident: that the British under the influence of the media of mass communication, which demand that everyone wear his emotion or pseudo-emotion on his sleeve, have lost their only admirable qualities - stoicism, self-deprecation, and a sense of irony - and have gained only those worthy of contempt.  They have exchanged depth for shallowness, and have thought they got the better of the bargain.  They are like people who think that the answer to constipation is diarrhea."   

• Zimbabwe –

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0002220 - from 2:38 - David Coulthard

2) The Netherlands - https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/jan/18/death-on-demand-has-euthanasia-gone-too-far-netherlands-assisted-dying?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX1RoZUxvbmdSZWFkLTE5MDExOQ%3D%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=TheLongRead&CMP=longread_email

http://www.dennyburk.com/dutch-pastors-face-possible-criminal-investigation-for-signing-the-nashville-statement/

3) America – Catholic Kids and Group Hate.. https://quillette.com/2019/01/20/truth-and-disfavored-identities/?fbclid=IwAR2h6ED7ViM9uy6aMmTO-oshMWf7dvcIpNNcla1jN38a7MYbG9Pq1H6ooeM

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/the-covington-catholic-bonfire-at-the-stake/ 

4) Lady Gaga and Mike Pence - https://www.christianpost.com/news/lady-gaga-calls-herself-christian-slams-mike-pence-as-worst-christian.html?utm_source=The+Christian+Post+List&utm_campaign=2f6d3d73c9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_01_22_05_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_dce2601630-2f6d3d73c9-2509241

Judas - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wagn8Wrmzuc

5) Tony and the Flypast. - https://twitter.com/bbcbreakfast/status/1087627217541189632?s=12

6) Prayer in parliament – Sunday –  John Lennox

http://archbishopcranmer.com/parliamentary-prayers-impose-exclude/

7) Riots in Greece – https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1075198/greece-riots-macedonia-riots-protests-police-tear-gas-athens 

8) Socialist Utopia in Australia - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/17/socialist-utopia-2050-what-could-life-in-australia-be-like-after-the-failure-of-capitalism?CMP=share_btn_link

Bowie on the Internet – in 1999 - https://twitter.com/BBCNewsnight/status/1083298716700815360

“The potential of what the internet to society both good and bad is unimaginable….its an alien lifeform

• EU and Parliament 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p062plkt 

2) Toxic Masculinity….

https://gillette.com/en-us/the-best-men-can-be 

https://www.christianpost.com/news/apa-issues-guidelines-calling-traditional-masculinity-harmful-to-men-boys.html?utm_source=The+Christian+Post+List&utm_campaign=889d8ed269-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_01_08_05_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_dce2601630-889d8ed269-2509241 

3) Abortion - Cuomo

https://www.christianpost.com/news/new-york-gov-cuomo-no-budget-unless-abortion-made-legal-for-any-reason-until-birth.html?utm_source=The+Christian+Post+List&utm_campaign=58159311c6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_01_10_06_41&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_dce2601630-58159311c6-2509241

4) Bishop Curry and Anglicanism

https://www.christianpost.com/news/episcopal-church-head-michael-curry-punishes-ny-bishop-who-wont-allow-gay-marriage-in-diocese.html?utm_source=The+Christian+Post+List&utm_campaign=af468895af-

http://archbishopcranmer.com/anglican-ambassador-to-rome-denies-the-resurrection-of-christ/?fbclid=IwAR3p8AScc4_4Oy0ET9cGtZ3BjTo-Lf-WcDEu1NWNKlN_MlUtXibVqr74nPE

5) John Finnis

https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/is-john-finnis-the-bravest-don-in-oxford

6) LGBT depression –

7) Andy Murray

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/46867066

Quote of the week – From an Uncivil Brexit.

"The system always wins – rebooting the system? The vision wasn’t flawed…its people that are flawed – the politicians – they did it crap they ruined it…there is a systems failure in this country and across the West…we are languishing..we are drifting without a vision or a purpose..what do you do when there is a systems failure? You reset…that’s all I did. What did they do? What did all of you do? You rebooted the same operating system. The same tired old politics of short termism and self serving small thinking bullshit. 

I’m as bad as the rest of them but that’s what the system does, the virus…it infects, but I was hoping, just praying that someone, anyone with the minimalist amount of (swearing) imagination or vision or aspiration could see that there was the opportunity for something to actually happen for someone to step in and do something to make a change…."

• 1) China – Threats to Taiwan….https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-46733174

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/25141597?ns_mchannel=email&ns_source=newsdaily_newsletter&ns_campaign=NEWS_NLB_Wk1_Thurs_3_January&ns_linkname=bbcnews_chinamoon_newsscience_chinamoon&ns_fee=0

• 2) The Yellow Vests - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46788751

3) BBC how Trans people choose their names -

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-46567954

Using He and She could be offensive - https://www.christian.org.uk/news/nhs-tells-staff-using-he-and-she-could-be-offensive/

Drag Queens in libraries - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-46753018

http://travisalabanza.co.uk/burgerz-2/

4) Rahaf - https://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/immigration/saudi-woman-rahaf-mohammed-alqunun-declared-a-refugee-by-un/news-story/098993901f29a382acf6ce38478ab974?utm_source=The%20Australian&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=BreakingNews 

5) Attacking politicians - Anna Soubry –https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jan/08/pressure-grows-on-police-to-act-over-nazi-slurs-against-anna-soubry

Nigel Farage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0YaM1TUfzk  

6) Billy Connolly - https://www.thenational.scot/news/17332798.billy-connolly-admits-he-is-near-the-end-but-isnt-scared-of-dying/

7) The Iolaire - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-46633716

Quote of the Week - The only truly acceptable contemporary Christianity for Western political culture now seems to be a Christianity which doesn’t mention God and which subscribes to conventional elite wisdom on policy issues (page 226).

https://theweeflea.com/2019/01/07/god-is-good-for-you-a-defence-of-christianity-in-troubled-times-greg-sheridan/

This is a follow up to Quantum 22 which looked at what happened last year - now we look ahead. 

1) ) We will continue to live in a confused culture -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSaS6NGvH6U

There will be growing gender confusion and a pushback against the Transgender ideology – 

https://www.spiked-online.com/2018/12/26/the-year-of-trans-tyranny/

2) Immigration –

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p06vy1pq (from the beginning?) 

3) Turmoil in the EU –https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/protesters-are-violent-racist-hate-filled-liars-says-macron-xrf5wsr0w

4) In politics Brexit will not happen in any meaningful form –  

5) The SNP will pay the price for focusing on Brexit.

6) The Battle for Marriage and Family will continue -

http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/how-taiwans-silent-majority-blocked-same-sex-marriage-momentum 

7) Education - http://www.sconews.co.uk/news/57102/political-leaders-issue-christmas-messages-to-catholic-community-and-all-scotlands-christians/ 

8) China will face a turbulent year – BBC Sunday – https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0001sxk 

9) The battle for democracy

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-01/stan-grant-2019-the-end-of-history/10675572

10) Atheism will decline and a spiritual hole will be left - https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/atheism-is-down-as-uk-gets-spiritual-z00nxczn7

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUv7sYBXEFw&t=58s

Quantum 22 – Review of 2018

10) A BitterSweet Day - https://theweeflea.com/2018/12/10/a-bittersweet-day-the-end-of-an-era/ 

9) The End of Scottish Indy - https://theweeflea.com/2018/10/16/the-end-of-scottish-independence/

8) Ireland Regresses - https://theweeflea.com/2018/05/27/ireland-regresses-sunday-bloody-sunday/

7) The Dark Side of Transgender Ideology - https://theweeflea.com/2018/11/12/the-dark-side-of-transgenderism/

6) 12 Rules for Life - https://theweeflea.com/2018/01/25/12-rules-for-life-a-christian-perspective/

5) A Revolutionary Question for the Church - https://theweeflea.com/2018/09/10/a-revolutionary-question-for-the-evangelical-church/

4) Bishop Curry - https://theweeflea.com/2018/05/21/bishop-michael-currys-sermon-a-distorted-gospel-divides-the-church/

3) Undivided - https://theweeflea.com/2018/06/25/undivided-an-open-letter-to-vicky-beeching/

2) The Hate Police - https://theweeflea.com/2018/10/02/the-hate-police-are-now-here/

1) America’s Disgrace - https://theweeflea.com/2018/09/28/americas-disgrace/

Quote of the Year: “Christians are always more short-sighted than they realize. They are often unable to tell, for instance, where their Christian principles leave off and their cultural perspectives begin. What many of them fail to ask themselves is, ‘where are we coming from and what is our own context?”

1) Christmas at Thistle shopping mall in Stirling - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXqBd3Wi7Mk&feature=youtu.be 

2) Stornoway Sabbath Swimming - Catriona Murray. Friday 7:45. GMS - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0001kfh

https://posttenebraslux.co.uk/2018/12/18/journalism-satan-and-sunday-opening/

3) Referendums - Ireland abortion - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0001mmm

4)Was Jesus funny? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0001md1 

5) Saudi Arabia and Yemen - https://unherd.com/2018/12/how-britain-profits-from-yemens-pain/ 

6) Mary’s Boychild - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0001mcb

7) The Chinese Church - https://www.premierchristianity.com/Blog/I-will-be-executed-but-I-will-not-plead-guilty.-Read-this-astonishing-letter-by-an-imprisoned-Chinese-pastor?utm_source=Premier%20Christian%20Media&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10130517_Ignite%2018%2F12%2F18&utm_content=Chinese%20pastor&dm_i=16DQ,614R9,KFBMV3,NNFLE,1