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The Wee Flea

David Robertson discusses faith, culture and politics from a Christian perspective - this podcast was known as Quantum of the Wee Flea.    Now it has been turned into a radio programme with Rhema FM.   

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  • S5 · E501
    Monday · 53 min

    Beauty for Ashes 46 - Forgive us our Debts - Russia, Iran, the Congo and the US

    This week we look Norway removing benefits from immigrants; the debts of the US, UK, Australia and China; Iran kills doctors for treating the wounded; Sepher Amierzadeh; Ukraine war; Brazilian elections; Ebola in the Congo; Country of the week - Russia; Humza Yousafs sister promotes Islam in Scotland; Colin Brazier on Bradford; Chelsea Clinton on abortion; Indigenous Australia attacked for being a 'Zio'; Shania Twain and Harry Styles; Bike speed limit introduced in Cambridge; Death of Frank Beard; More archaeological evidence for the Exodus; Solar farm in Scotland destroys arable land; The world is greening; Coal mines in the Hunter Valley extended; How did Fauci lie? Song of the week - Bob Dylan; Feedback; Is sugar and milk coffee anti male? The pimping out of Brisbane cathedral; Hypocritical minister in Scotland denounced during a service by his wife; and the Final Word - Habakkuk 2:14 with music from Dire Straits; Shakila; Metallica; Red Army Choir; Shania Twain; Henri De Bailley; ZZ Top; Bob Dylan; Rachmanninov;

  • S5 · E500
    August 17 · 56 min

    Beauty for Ashes 45 - Afghanistan, Earthquakes; and the Blooming Australian Desert

    This week we look at the Solar Eclipse; Earthquakes in Colombia and Indonesia; Is there famine in Gaza? Islam in Tajikistan; Country of the Week - Afghanistan; Islam in the US and the UK; Swedish injustice; Ireland's anti-semitism grounds planes; German swimming pool apartheid; Australia's Maoist school children; Miatta Fahnbulleh's private school hypocrisy; fraud within the UK education, health and justice systems; Edwina Currie suggests government provided brothels for illegal immigrants; Italian works of art recovered; Ritchie Blackmore feud with Deep Purple ends after 33 years; Top ten classical - no. 9; the death of Jason Arday; The great Isaiah Scroll; good news from Australia about the environment; Song of the Week - where do you go to my lovely? Feedback; 'prophetess' Katie Souza claims that her eggs have been harvested by Aliens; the Final Word - Psalm 63. with music from Elton John; Carole King; Aryana Sayeed ; Pink Floyd; Don McLean; Deep Purple; Shostakovich; NEEDTOBREATHE; Peter Sarstedt; and Wes Bayliss.

  • S5 · E499
    August 10 · 54 min

    Beauty for Ashes 44 - Against the Wind - Hungary, Starkey and Liddle

    IN this weeks podcast we look at David Starkey's analysis of what went wrong with the UK; Delhi push for EV's; Irish anti-semitism; Canadian Granny euthanised without consent; Country of the week Hungary; The Cambridge fantasy; The Green rape apologist; the Democrats move to the lunatic left in Michigan; Unsung Hero; the death of Rod Liddle; Top ten classical - no. 10 Brahms; China's population history; AI Generates virusus ; Cutting down the Ecuadorian Amazon to save the Amazon; Song of the Week; Feedback; Benny Hinn; John Lennox; and the final word from Titus. with music from Jethro Tull, Mohammed Rafi, Marta Sebestyen; Hungarian Reformed Church; Bryan Ferry; Brahms; the Kinks; Bob Seger; and the Gaithers.

  • S5 · E498
    August 4 · 53 min

    Beauty for Ashes 43 - Oxford, Cambridge, Fauci and South Korea

    This week we look at the craziness going on in some of the worlds top universities - including the Ceuta invasion; Country of the Week - South Korea; The Oxford Union Islam debate; Humza Yousaf on Islamic dominance; Police and Schools encourage Isalmism; Boy George supports Israel; The Walter Mitty world of Prof Jason Arday; Left Wing Terrorism; Women v. Men in sport; the death of Bill Oddie; Fauci's silence; Bill Anderson on Bureaucracy; Feedback and The Final Word - Matthew 12:36-37 - and Johnny Cash's most important song. with music from The Proclaimers; Johnny Cash; Supertramp; Boy George; BTS; The Blues Band; Coldplay

  • S5 · E497
    July 27 · 56 min

    Beauty for Ashes 42 - The Faroes, Trumps Billions and the Odyssey

    This week we look at Lucy Powell's view of education; Elon Musk v. the Economist; Injustice in Finland; Two tier policing re BLM protestors; Country of the Week - the Faroe Islands; Trump makes billions in first year; the weird world of Woke; Islamist attack on Pride in Berlin; Gil and Hartig - the Smithsonian; Stirling Pride and the Churches; The UN appoints dictatorships to supervise human rights; NGO's funded by governments; more than 1,000 men in NSW 'become' women; The ABC promotes sexual violence against Gina Reinhardt, and adultery; Megan Rapinoe and Sophie Cunningham; Kevin Keegan; Christopher Nolan's Oydssey; Classical composers and Murray Campbell; What's causing the heat in Europe? Cairngorm fires; Feedback; Why is there a 'no religion' campaign for the Australian census? and the Final Word - the Lord's Prayer. with music from Chuck Berry; Eivor; Dire Straits; Tchaikovsky; The Spinners; John Mayer Trio; Etta James and the Latvian people.

  • S5 · E496
    July 20 · 43 min

    Beauty for Ashes 41 - The Yackandandah Special!

    This week we look at whats going on in the world through the eyes of the Yackandandah mens camp! Including Starmers farewell; the UK bans Paivi Rasanen; the World Cup ends; Josh Kerr breaks world record; Country of the Week - South Africa; Jillian Spencer vindicated; Amnesty International against Human Rights; Scottish teacher banned for answering question about abortion; Reproductive violence taught at University training course; Sam Neill dies; Feedback; Niall Ferguson admits failure on anti-semitism; the Church of England fails on anti-semitism; and the Final Word; with music from Chuck Berry, the Battlefield band, POD, the Soweto Gospel Choir, JJ Cale, ZZ Top, the Wurzels, the J Geils Band, and the Byrds

  • S5 · E495
    July 14 · 48 min

    Beauty for Ashes 40 - Lord Mackay, Bonnie Tyler; Anne Widdecombe; the World Cup and Spain

    This week we look at the murder of Anne Widdecombe; the death of Lord Mackay; the World Cup and religion; Norway v. England; Are Argentina being supported by a Zionist plot? Are Brazil too evangelical? Should Dundee have played Maccabi Haifa; Country of the week - Spain; Indonesia warns about LGBTQ culture; The UK Health Secretary now says that women can't have penises; the death and faith of Bonnie Tyler; no. 1 guitarist - Mark Knopfler; Edinburgh ditches Knox's bonnet ceremony; Kate Forbes at the ARC; Jennifer Aniston on Religion; with music from Otis Redding; Dire Straits; Bonnie Tyler; The Beatles; The Three Tenors; Lynard Skynard; Ruth Naomi Floyd

  • S5 · E494
    July 7 · 42 min

    Beauty for Ashes 39 - Happy 250th Birthday America!

    This week we look at the 250th anniversary of the founding of the US - its culture, religion and population; Angela Mackenzie on the Founding Fathers; Muslims at the World Cup; Trump's Red Card; Taylor Swift's Marriage; German influence in the US; Germany's sick economy; NY Pride goes after Children; The BBC and Trans athletes in the US; Yanis Varoufakis on AI; Feedback; King Charles stops defending the faith; Stephen Furtick preaches a different faith; and the Final Word - Revelation 3:7-10. with music from. Jimi Hendrix; Simon and Garfunkel; Taylor Swift; Duke Ellington; BB King; Connie Francis; and the Mississippi Mass Choir

  • S5 · E493
    June 30 · 50 min

    Beauty for Ashes 38 - Earthquakes, Austria, Lara Bird-Leakey and Skillet

    This week we look at the Venezuelan earthquake; Ukraine war; New York forgets 9/11; Religion and the World Cup; Country of the Week - Austria: Imam mob leader gets police award; Reem Alsalem, UN Raporteur does not believe all women; NSW education department want white men out of science; Pyra Lara Bird-Leakey and the new SNP; The National cancels Kate Forbes; A new Bach song? ; Skillet's monster no 1 Christian song on Spotify; Eric Clapton - no.2 guitarist; Belgium goes nuclear; EU Aircon for the bosses but not the workers; Feedback; Bishop of Manchester supports draconian anti-lgbt conversion therapy; Geoffrey Donaldson; and the Final Word - Rev 22:12-15 with music from Eric Clapton; Skillet; Bach; The Who; Strauss; The Sound of Music; ACDC; Johnny Cash.

  • S5 · E492
    June 23 · 54 min

    Beauty for Ashes 37 - World Cup Songs, Japan, Humanism, the Grooming Gangs Report, Starbucks in South Korea, and Starmer

    In this weeks podcast we reflect on Keir Starmer, the Iran peace deal; Change in Colombia; Fauci lied about Covid; The UK grooming gangs report; Ayaan Hirsi Ali on why all cultures are not the same; The World Cup - the nations of the world; Best fans of the world cup; Cape Verde; Country of the Week - Japan; Ideologies that kill - Humanism; Pauline Hanson on abortion; Men in womens prisons in Australia; California reserves government contracts for gay companies only; West Midlands police inspector spared jail; Indoctrination of children in Scottish Highlands schools; Disclosure - the Church and Aliens ; The Hawkstone Farmers Choir wins BGT; James Burrows dies; Bob Newhart; No. 3 guitarist - Robbie Robertson; Starbucks Korea have an AI disaster; Feedback; The NSS report a Church for its preaching; the Final Word - Reveleation 7:9with music from The Hawkstone Farmers Choir; Baccara; Oasis; Nick Morgan; Neil Diamond; Deep Purple; Robbie Robertson and Eric Clapton; Maasaki Suzuki; and Roy Turner

  • S2 · E491
    June 18 · 55 min

    Beauty for Ashes 36 - The World Cup - Curacao; Peace; AI Model Collapse; and Paganism

    This week we look at the Iran/USA peace deal; John Healy resigns; The Global Justice Report; Elon Musk the worlds first Trillionaire; the World Cup - Scotland, Australia and Curaco; Killer Ideology of the week - Paganism; Dark Mofo in Tasmania; Dr Who - Goes Woke and Broke; Peter Hitchens - Remembering Poetry; AI - Model Collapse?; the state of Coal in the world; Argentina and AI companies; Feedback; 'Sophie from Dundee'; AI writing sermons; Simon Guilleband and Tim Hughes; the Final Word - 1 Timothy 4:8 including music from Dave Alvin; Tim Hughes; Izaline Calister; Jethro Tull; Glenn Campbell; The Proclaimers;

  • S5 · E490
    June 11 · 57 min

    Beauty For Ashes - The Killer Ideologies Special

    This week we are looking at the ideologies that kill in our society and the antidote to them. Including anti-racism; Queer and Trans; Anti-Semitism; Autonomy - euthanasia and abortion; Statism, Facism and Communism; Islam; The Green ideology; Christian Heresies; and the solutions given by Christ, the Gospel and the Church, Schaeffer on No Little People' and the Final Word - Colossians 2;8 with music from Coldplay, Gary Moore; Paul Macartney and Stevie Wonder; U2; Leonard Cohen; Dean Martin and Helen O’Connell; Bob Marley; Geoff Bullock;

  • S3 · E489
    June 4 · 47 min

    Beauty for Ashes 34 - Henry Novak, Cambodia, Pregnant men in Australia; the Pope and AI....

    This week we look the Murrell/Sturgeon scandal in Scotland; Ireland and Iran; The British Museum cancels Israel; Country of the Week - Cambodia; Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner wants to protect pregnant men; Pride returns to Sodom and Gomorrah; The racist death of Henry Novak; Transgender Extremist who plants bomb in Melbourne spared jail; the Pope on AI; Newcastle Knights; Married at First Sight; Top ten guitarists - no. 6 Jimmy Page; Feedback; Iain McGilchrist on the need for Christianity; Jesus turns up on the Gold Coast; and the Final Word - Genesis 11:5-9 - with Bachman Turner Overdrive; Sinn Sisamouth; Preah Ang La Hor; Mike Zito; Kraftwerk; Led Zeppelin and Dave Henderson

  • S5 · E488
    May 28 · 48 min

    Beauty for Ashes 33 - Freedom!

    This week we look at the subject of freedom - including why we are no longer on Christian radio; freedom from the rush of the modern world; the Australian Christian Freedom Index; Country of the Week- Afghanistan; Morrisey on Diversity; Worlds Top Ten Guitarists; Feedback; The Fall of the Plymouth Brethren; Freedom of Religion; and the Final Word - Psalm 124 with music from Lynyard Skynard; Faryad Darya; the Smiths; Carl Perkins; Dave Henderson; Disciple; Mateus Asato; and the Sons of Korah.

  • S4 · E486
    May 21 · 44 min

    Beauty for Ashes 32 - Cuba, Eurovision, Father Ted and Trio Mandili

    This week we look at whether the world is burning, Guy Macpherson and Roger Pielke; Polygamy in the UK; Hamas and women; Father Ted and Eurovision; Tickle v. Giggle; Scotland and Misgendering; Country of the Week - Cuba; Feedback; Green Lamborghini hypocrisy; Zack Polanski and tax avoidance; Negative gearing and Australian government ministers; the Drewitt-Barlow scandal; the decline of Latin and Greek in Princetown Classics; Blasphemy and Churchill; and the Final Word.with music from the Ruts, Trio Mandili, Celia Cruz, the Bottle Rockets, Andromeda, Dara, BB King, Seven Nation Army in Attic Greek, and Petra

  • S4 · E485
    May 14 · 45 min

    Beauty for Ashes 31 - Weltanschaung, India, Cats and Sam Alberry

    This week we ask what is your Weltanschaung; the UK Elections; Green overseas trans student elected to govern Scotland; Holland and Sandbrook on non conformist Protestantism in UK politics; One Nation in Australia; Country of the Week - India; Pete Townsend and John Entwhistle; The battle that was won by cats; Feedback; Some of the Oldest things in the world; Sam Alberry; Christians slaughtered in the DRC; and the final word - Matthew 23:27-28 with music from Bob Dylan, Ma Rewa, Yeshua Ministries, the Who, Squeeze, Mozart, and Stephen McWhirter....

  • S4 · E484
    May 7 · 44 min

    Beauty for Ashes 30 - Trigger Warnings, King Charles in the US, the UAE, and ZZ Top

    This week we look at Trigger Warnings; King Charles; the Scottish Elections; the anti-Christian Lib Dems; the SPLC funds Hate groups they oppose; Country of the Week - the United Arab Emirates; Feedback; Trevor Phillips on Anti-Semitism; The Top Ten Rock Guitarists - Billy Gibbons; Ausustinos Saaman in Egypt; Ben Sasse; and the Last Word John 15:18-20 with music from the Corries, Steeleye Span, Hussain al Jassmi, Hazidim, Blue Oyster Cult, and Dues Metallicus

  • S4 · E483
    April 30 · 44 min

    Beauty for Ashes 29 - Moya, Shooting Trump, Silent Witness, Sawe, and Mali

    This week we look at the life of Moya Brennan; the attempted assassination of Donald Trump; The Brainwashing of Silent WItness; Male doctor registered as female doctor in Australia; Country of the Week - Mali; Feedback; Francis Schaeffer; More Sex Ed in the UK parliament; Meghan and Harry in Australia; Kim Ledbetter's euthanasia bill fails; Iran made president of UN committee on human rights by Western countries; Record grain group in Australia; Sabastian Sawe; the Sagrada Familia; Alex O'Connor on Ricky Gervais; and Psalm 67 with music from Moya Brennan, Shania Twain, Salif Keita, Tina Turner and Steeleye Span.

  • S4 · E482
    April 23 · 45 min

    Beauty for Ashes 28 - Reasons to be Cheerful

    This week we look at some of the more positive things going on....including the Pope vs the President; the fightback against assisted suicide; the return of chocolate; Britain returning to oil; John Cleese recognising the persecution of Christians in Nigeria; Country of the week - Algeria; Feedback; Deep Purple in Japan; You are not a Victim - Konstantin Kisin; Student outreach in Armenia; Dame Jud Dench on Shakespeare; and the Final Wordwith music from Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Babymetal, Farrell, Tarwaan n Darwed, Reformed and Dangerous, Deep Purple and Handal

  • S4 · E481
    April 16 · 46 min

    Beauty for Ashes 27 - Cultural Marxism

    This week we look at the controversial subject of Cultural Marxism - what is it? Is it a real thing? Or just an anti-semitic conspiracy? Cultural Marxism and the Scottish Tories; What is Classic Marxism? What is Cultural Marxism? CM and anti-Christianity; CM and morality and the family; The Canadian politician and MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+; CM and changing the language; Jaden Ivey; CM and Intolerance; Brodie Mitchell and the Palestinian tea towel; Jacinda Adhern and Free Speech; CM and Education; The SNP and indoctrination; CM and deconstruction; Sweden; Caesar Chavez; CM and Hypocrisy; CM against the Poor; Valdo Calocane; and the Final Word - Including music from the the Beatles, Sister Sledge, The Jackson 5, the Who, Bob Dylan, Jimmy Barnes,

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