# Beauty for Ashes 18 -  Heroes, Hypocrites and Humour

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Podcast: [Beauty for Ashes](https://stenobird.com/podcast/beauty-for-ashes-590469)
Published: 2026-02-12T18:27:17+00:00
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## Resource

This week we look at the amazing story of Austin Applebee; Epstein, Mandelson and Starmer; Epstein and Trans; The Too White Countryside; Billy Eilish and "Stolen Land'; Sanae Takaichi wins Japanese election; Mandani reads from Quran; Islamic child abuse; Bradford NHS asks for 'Close Relative Marriage Nurse'; Feedback; the Good Things about Canada; Ricky Gervais on Virtue Signalling; German Greens ban salt - hospitals fill up; When is assault not an assault - when it is done for Palestine; Zali Stagel justifies 'globalise the intifada'; Haviv Retag Gur; Nationalising Prostitution in Scotland; LGBTY Scotland leader convicted of grooming; Dundee girls vindicated; Church of Scotland decline continues; Is AI biased towards evangelicals; Michael Jackson Irish Folk Style; and the Final Word; with music from the Peat Bog Faeries; Nana Mouskari; the Battlefield Band; Lada Strings Duo; The Stone Coyotes; Michael Jackson; and Eden Bridge...

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