Beauty for Ashes 53 – Singapore, the Nobel Peace Farce, Burnham and Badenoch and the Atheist Songbook

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

A new feature is that I write an additional commentary on my Substack every week – here is this weeks BFA Plus

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Catch up on last weeks episode here – Beauty for Ashes 51 – North Korea, Islam in the UK, Ireland loses its mind, Iran whips a Singer; and Super Intelligence

Songs: Matchbox; Black Sabbath;   JJ Lin; Sun Ho; Bryan Ferry;  ACDC; Beethoven; Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers

States:  Scotland;  Singapore;  Saudi Arabia; Yemen; Australia;  the UK; the Netherlands;  India;  USA; Russia; Ukraine; China; the USA; Canada

Sources:  X; Spotify; NYT; BBC; Iain Macwhirter; The Daily Mail; News24;  The Spectator;  The Australian; the Guardian