For this weeks meander through some of the news stories that have grabbed our attention we welcome a brand new guest, the unabashed comedian Abi Roberts! Having lived and studied in Moscow in the nineties she will be giving her unfiltered opinion on the situation in Russia, looking closely at Ukrainian President Zelensky, telling us her memories of time spent there and then we look at PM Boris Johnson signalling that Putin should face war crimes over the invasion, Formula One cancels the Russian 2022 Grand Prix, Chinese Embassy in Canada highlights the tyranny and brutality seen in Canadian cities (pot calls kettle...), Red states quietly get on board with the vaccine passport, New vaccine promises 100% protection from severe disease, German tech giant builds global COVID vaccine app for the World Health Organisation and another 'rare' fatal seizure in young adults reported: this time a 27 year old actor from Coronation Street. We finish with the fake news media throwing out COVID in exchange for war, Putin making Biden fart and troubled former British pop star sends a warning to Putin.... We bet he's shaking in his Ushanka!!!! Abi Roberts is a British stand-up comedian, writer and commentator. Abi became a professional stand-up in 2012, and since then has played some of the biggest clubs across the UK, and had several sold-out shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. She became a comedian because she wanted to write her own material and have the freedom to express her worldview – and make thousands of people laugh at the absurdity and wonder of life. Abi does not worship at ‘The Church of Woke’! If you ask her how she identifies or what her gender pronouns are, she would give you this answer: “I’m a straight female who’s flattened a lot of grass. I spent much of my university days behind a club called Cinderella’s with a cone of chips in one hand and a pint of Snakebite and Black in the other. For balance. I once dabbled in Lesbiana but couldn’t fully commit because, like a London cab driver, I wouldn’t go south of the river.” Abi’s stand up show Anglichanka, which was about living and studying in Russia, gained her several 5 star rave reviews and the show toured the UK. She was the first comedian to do shows in Moscow in both English and Russian, as Abi explains “My father was a spy… sorry, diplomat, so I went to the Soviet Union as a kid and then in the early 1990s I studied opera at the Moscow Conservatoire. Over the years, I’ve met many people who have been persecuted by the Soviet regime, including Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, so I have an inbuilt hatred of all authoritarian bastards who encourage denouncement and punish freedom of speech.” She has appeared as a guest comedian on BBC Radio 4’s Midweek, Saturday Live and BBC Radio Scotland’s The Janice Forsyth Show, and ITV’s Good Morning Britain, debating mandatory vaccine passports opposite Edwina Currie. As a writer, Abi has written for several publications including Spiked and The Times. Abi is a regular commentator on GB News, You can see her on Tonight Live with Dan Wootton and Mark Dolan and she also appears regularly on Andrew Doyle’s Free Speech Nation as well as Nana Akua’s weekend Debate show on GB News every Friday from 4-6pm. Twice monthly she joins Ann Widdecombe and Emma Webb in Widdecombe Webb & Woberts streamed LIVE on the New Culture Forum YouTube channel and also contributes regularly on Talk Radio & Times Radio and you can see her in person at the Backyard Comedy Club on Sunday 10th April. Follow and support Abi at the following links Website: https://abiroberts.com/ GETTR: https://gettr.com/user/abiroberts Twitter: https://twitter.com/abiroberts?s=20&t=gcvve1Ik83YEhvKcEo_aWA Instagram: https://instagram.com/abirobertscomedy?utm_medium=copy_link YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/AbiRobertsComedyDiva Originally broadcast as a live news discussion 26.2.22 Audio Podcast version available at ⁣https://heartsofoak.podbean.com/ and all major podcast directories. To sign up for our weekly email, find our social media, podcasts, video, livestreaming platforms and more go to https://heartsofoak.org/connect/ Please like, subscribe & share! Links to stories discussed in this episode Abi on Ukraine/Russia https://twitter.com/abiroberts/status/1497167450785394692?s=20&t=GTEu13oqjhiHQ-Wtuldi9g Welsh comic Abi Roberts is first UK stand up to perform in Russia - in Russian Jan 2016 https://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/comedy-news/welsh-comic-abi-roberts-first-10794089 Ukraine and Russia: Is the media telling us the truth https://twitter.com/BeckkieParnell/status/1497292660679315459 Not one journalist has asked who Zelensky is, and what he has done to Ukraine https://twitter.com/abiroberts/status/1497495530443788288 Boris Johnson has signalled that Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, could face war crimes charges over the invasion of Ukraine https://twitter.com/abiroberts/status/1497260226147454981 BREAKING: Formu

Intelligent Design may not be an idea you are familiar with but it has interested me since I was a child. I find it impossible to accept that the world we live in and the complexity of human beings is all based on luck and chance. There has to be an intelligent designer. Stephen C Meyer is one of the most renowned experts on this very topic and his recent appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience has made many people question the theory of a universe without God. At what point did intellectuals decide that scientific knowledge conflicts with traditional theistic beliefs? Is it even statistically possible for such complexity to just appear? What about the question of who is this intelligent designer? Stephen Meyer will help you view the world around you with a brand new perspective. Dr. Stephen C. Meyer received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in the philosophy of science. A former geophysicist and college professor, he now directs the Center for Science and Culture at the Discovery Institute in Seattle. In 2004, Meyer ignited a firestorm of media and scientific controversy when a biology journal at the Smithsonian Institution published his peer-reviewed scientific article advancing intelligent design. Meyer has been featured on national television and radio programs, including The Joe Rogan Experience, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, CBS's Sunday Morning, NBC's Nightly News, ABC's World News, Good Morning America, Nightline, FOX News Live, and the Tavis Smiley show on PBS. He has also been featured in two New York Times front-page stories and has garnered attention in other top-national media. Dr. Meyer is author of the New York Times bestseller Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design and Signature in the Cell, a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year. He is also a co-author of Explore Evolution: The Arguments For and Against Neo-Darwinism and Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique. Connect with Stephen... WEBSITE https://stephencmeyer.org/ https://www.discovery.org/ https://returnofthegodhypothesis.com/ X https://x.com/StephenCMeyer?s=20 BOOKS https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B001K90CQC Interview recorded 13.12.23 Connect with Hearts of Oak... WEBSITE https://heartsofoak.org/ PODCASTS https://heartsofoak.podbean.com/ SOCIAL MEDIA https://heartsofoak.org/connect/ TRANSCRIPTS https://heartsofoak.substack.com/ Support Hearts of Oak by purchasing one of our fancy T-Shirts.... SHOP https://heartsofoak.org/shop/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM2ov4sstTQ