Quantum - The Wee Flea Podcast

Our world is filled with people who pretend to be something they are not - this week we look at a few examples as well as world news.   With Tina Turner;  Philip Scofield; Freddy Mercury;  Erodgan reelected in Turkey;  Conservatives win elections in Spain;  Tunisia turns away from democracy;  Germany's recession; the Pretenders; BLM's financial collapse;  Target misses the mark; Kathleen Stock; Kylie Minogue; Jane Fonda and Climate Change;  Verifying the BBC;  The Rolling Stones;  Satanism;  Andy Stanly; Matt Papa and the Getty's.  

This week we reflect on the deaths of Tim Keller, Donald Macleod, Harry Reeder, Rolf Harris, Martyn Amis and Jeremy Clarke.   We also look at Taiwan and the WHO; Elections in Greece; Running out of Sand; Ed Davey; Trans indoctrination in schools; Senator Machaela Cavanaugh; The Decline of Radio 4; Hatun Tash; Dave Mustaine's testimony; Review of Paul Simon's 'Seven Psalms';      With music from Leonard Cohen, Zorba the Greek, the Beach Boys;  Megadeath, Paul Simon and Clive Parnell

This week we look at what part bias plays in our culture - with the boys from Brisbane.  Pride and Prejudice; Chat GPT;  Indonesia and the Voice of Baceprot; Turkey election;  Thai election; anti-Christian violence in India; Sudan civil war; Glen Miller; the ABC;  Bluey; Napoli Champions; Dundee Champions; Austin Killips and trans athletes; Bryan Ferry; the Australian Greens; Moira Deeming;  Shutting down Catholic hospitals; Fred Nile;  Is religion the answer? Living and Bill Nighy; the Christ Hymn,. 

This week we spend the whole episode looking at the issues arising out of the Coronation.   The Bible as the Word of God.  Maintaining the Protestant Reformed Religion.  A Hindu reading that Jesus is the only Creator.  A disappointing sermon.  Great music.  The anointing of the Holy Spirit.  Marriage and hypocrisy.  The rehabilitation of Queen Camilla.   Prince William and the new Civic Religion. Humanists UK.  The Right to Protest.  NIck Cave.  The True Cross.  Psalm 24. 

This week we look at the world of AI and what it has to say about being human.  Are we moving towards being slaves of the machine?  With Kraftwerk; Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and Geoffrey Hinton; The Terminator; Rage Against the Machine; Hate Speech Law in Ireland; Twitter changes Rules;  Education;  Does the Bible Advocate Slavery?  Tucker Carlson; Dr Aseem Malhotra and Joe Rogan on the Vaccines; Ed Sheeran v. Marvin Gaye; Dutch Farmers v. the Greens; Brecon Beacons no more; Gordon Lightfoot; Jerry Springer; King Charles; Alice Cooper; The Matrix; Wilberforce;  Amazing Grace with Chris Tomlin. 

This week we look at hate speech and misinformation - including Elon Musk and the BBC; The Australian Electoral Commission;  Harry Belafonte; Barry Humphries; U2; Dr Laura Favaro; Brendan O'Neill; India Willoughby; Dianne Abbott; Queensland prostitution; President Biden; Alice Cooper;  Ukrainian Grain; Eco Toffs and Snooker; Kenyan Chess Cheater;  Murray Head; UK Emergency Signal; Larry Norman.   

This week our focus is on children featuring - John Lydon, Guns 'n' Roses, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young; Rod Liddle on what is the best childcare? Dr John Campbell on sanctity of life; Euthanising children in the Netherlands; Jethro Tull; War children in Sudan and Ukraine; Indoctrination in schools; Hormone blockers in NZ schools; Non-binary children in Scotland; The Singing Kettle; Teacher apologises for calling girls girls in a girls school; why do drag queens want to be with children?  Teenage abuse; Peter and the Wolf; Paedophilia - Peter Tatchell, the UN and the Kentler Project; Iron Maiden; Surrogacy; the Kinks; Super Mario Brothers; George Verwer; City Alight and Colin Buchanan.  

This week we reflect on what is going on in the world today, through what went on in the world in the 1930's and 1940's - we look at the Jews; the man who escaped Auschwitz; Robert Hebras - the last survivor of Oradour; Ben Ferencez - the last Nuremberg prosecutor; the war in Ukraine; the threat to the dollar; Keith Reid and a Whiter Shade of Pale; Switzerland and Covid; Woke Grease; Queensland Trans legislation;  Hobart Uni bans Catholic group; Deni Todrovic's misogyny;  Jennifer Bilek and the link between transgender, big business and transhumanism; Katherine Deves and the new religion; Church of England churches close; Greg Sheridan on Easter; and Classic FM's no.1 piece of music - Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto.   

This week we reflect on Easter, the arrests of Donald Trump and Peter Murrell; the Wisconsin Supreme Court election;   Os Guinness; the Finnish election; Kenyan riots; Kemi Badenoch on Trans; Canada outlaws protests against Drag Queens; Dylan Mulvaney and Nike; Oli London converts; Prime Minister of New Zealand can't define women; the new religion in Australia; World Athletics Association bans Trans in womens sport; The FT defends lying; A Dutch trans ageist; Abba Wigs banned; Cancel Mozart; Should churches host Iftars? The man on the middle cross - and See what a morning!   With music from Korpiklaani; Abba, Mozart and the Gettys.   Apologies for a slight drop in the quality of sound...

This week we take a longer look at the issues arising out of the Nashville shooting - including transgender, media, the police, politicians, Kelly-Jay Keen in Australia and New Zealand; guns; violence;   the American lecturer advocating killing 'homophobes and transphobes',  Cenk Uygur;  John Pesutto and Joe Biden, Humza Yousaf,  education, women, the Church; with music from U2, Emmy Lou Harris, George Strait,  Brantley Gilbert, Dolly Parton, the Who and the Gettys.  Apologies for this being a bit longer than usual but the issues are so important I did not want to cut it. 

This week we look at the question of identity - including X Ray Spex; Lt Gov Peggy Flanagan; Enid Blyton; Girl Guides new guide to language; Women's identity; Humza and Ukrainian men; the Human League; Apotemnophilia; Cycling in decline; Is Alan West Black?;  Dutch Farmers Party; Ben Bradshaw and Parliamentary control of the Church of England; Dr Aaron Edwards fired for teaching the Bible; Rhiannon Giddens;  the ABC guidelines; The Newsboys

This week we look at cancel culture - ironically having prepared this theme I was 'cancelled' on Monday by Twitter (please feel free to tweet this out on our behalf!)  - including Eminem; Submarines (Australia) ; Sex education (England); Dr Jeret Kok (Tasmania); Van Morrison; Paul Murphy (Ireland); Joe Biden on Trans (US);  Bernard Randall (UK); Jack the Colorado Baker (US); the Oscars;  the London Review of Books; and Hillsong. 

This week we look at Indonesia; Kampuchea's Killing Fields; Mongolian Heavy Metal; Brussels farmers; the Common People; Conversion Therapy; International Woman of the Year is a Man; Liberal Attitudes; an all Women's Bible; Kenneth Copeland's 'cheap' plane; the Mercy Seat; and Psalm 124  with the help of Buffalo Springfield, the Hu, Pulp, Lynard Skynyrd and Nick Cave 

This week we look at the world with the help of Del Amitri - we look at the Nigerian election; the Danes exchanging prayer for weapons; Rail tragedy in Greece; Rishi Sunak's new Brexit deal; Betty Boothroyd; Faith, Politics and Humza Yousaf; Marriage and Calvin Robinson; Singaporean sues woman who refuses to date him; Misgendering in Canada; Roll to Christ.....

This week we look at Gaelic women;  Kate Forbes; Aaron Edwards; Putin and Pronouns; Biden in Ukraine; Budgies; John Williamson; Banning Statues; Does reading CS Lewis and Tolkien mean you are a Terrorist? Re-writing Roald Dahl; ZZ top; Pregnant Men; Jordan Peterson on Pornography and AI; the Zombies; John Macarthur; Gaelic Psalm 46.

This week we look at Sturgeon's resignation, JK Rowling ban fails; Shooting Balloons;  Are Aliens Invading? The Woke Language Police;  Lilt, the totally tropical taste;  Did Bob Marley become a Christian? the first 100 days of Meloni;  Prevent fails to Prevent; He Gets Us adverts;  and The Asbury Revival

Why does the modern world treat everything as black and white and insist we have to be on one side or the other?    This week we look at this - including the earthquake in Turkey; the Church of England and SSM; Ukraine;  the evidence for masks; Burt Bacharach; Covid Vaccines; Taylor Swift and Abortion; Bill Maher on Revolution; Sam Smith and the Highway to Hell;  the Right Side of History - with music from Antrim Mennonites; B J Thomas; Taylor Swift; the Beatles; Sam Smith; ACDC; and Equip

This week we look at how ideologies can cause so much harm....and why love is the answer....including Jordan Peterson on the lies women are told; the murder of Tyre Nichols; Pakistan bomb; Ukraine - tanks and Russia's economy; Israel bombs Iran; Canada legalises heroine; that Pfizer tape; Bill Maher on Climate Change; Novak Djokovic; NHS Director for Lived Experience; Levels of Caffeine in Coffee; All Creatures Great and Small; Sandi Toksvig and the Archbishop of Canterbury;  with music from Seasick Steve, Peter Green, Humble Pie, Jethro Tull, U2 and BB King...

This week we look at the extent of failed promises.   Jacinda Ardern; the decline of Japan; Is China spying on you?; Wagner v's Mozart; Al Gore's meltdown; Beyonce falls out with LGBT; does Biblical teaching lead to Trans suicides?; Dave Crosby - teach your children well; Malta and where Conversion Therapy laws are going; Scooby Doo goes Woke; Rejecting Biblical teaching on sex doesn't lead to happiness; Alice Springs and Alcohol; George Thorogood;  Andy Murray and Darvel; Sister Lucille Randon and the promise of eternal life; Immortal, Invisible.   

This week we look at the population fall in China;  the last King of Greece; a bombed Church in the Congo; the last Mafia boss arrested in Italy;  Davos, the WEF and conspiracy theorists; Nick Cave on Robotic Music; Canadian's who killed a non mask wearer go free; Keir Starmer's values; Penny Mordaunt tells Church to change its doctrines; Steve Baker comes out as a LGBT ally; Caroline Noakes on being born in the wrong body; Trans murderer stands for parliament; Konstantin Kisin at the Oxford Union; the Banishees of Insherin;  the Melbourne Open; and the 25oth anniversary of Amazing Grace.     With music from Buffalo Springfield, Greece, the Godfather, Nick Cave, Prelude and Jelle Boesveld.