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Columns, poems, tales, music, movies and more from Mark and friends

Laura's Links

Picture My Face

Hello again and welcome to this week's fresh batch of Laura's Links. Thanks again to everyone who joined us for The Mark Steyn Club Live Q&A Around the Planet yesterday, hosted by yours truly. In case you missed it, you can hear the replay here. There was a great question asked by one of our Club Members about where to vacation in Canada (before it gets more totally and completely bonkers here). I mentioned a few places on air, and that Americans in particular can certainly get more bang for the buck here in the Deranged Dominion because the Canadian dollar is only worth about fifty cents to the greenbuck nowadays. Regardless, the best recommendation would be to join the next Mark Steyn Club Cruise-which will be taking place in October ...

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The Mark Steyn Audio Show

"Reasonable and Proportionate"

If you missed our Clubland Q&A with guest host Laura Rosen Cohen, here's the action replay...

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Clubland Q&A

Live Around the Planet: Wednesday August 20th

Today guest host Laura Rosen Cohen fields questions from Mark Steyn Club members live around the planet at 3pm ET/ 8pm UK...

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Steyn on the World

What a Difference an Election Makes...

Finland's in. Canada's out.

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Mann vs Steyn

A Very Low Bar...

How low can the DC Bar go?

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Rick's Flicks

Last Chance: Jack Palance and Anthony Perkins in The Lonely Man

Rick McGinnis reviews "The Lonely Man"...

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Steyn on the World

Putin on the Ritz

A topical take on Putin...

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Politics & Current Affairs

A Stopped Grok Is Right Once a Day

"...I blow hot and cold on Artificial Intelligence. Sometimes I think it's the end of everything, and that we will be the last truly human generation. Then again, as the above illustrates, it may just be two duelling interns from Bangalore in the back room fighting for control of the 'Publish' button..."

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Politics & Current Affairs

If You Go Down to the Woods Today...

The "fifteen-minute cities" are already shrinking...

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On the Town

Tote Dat Barge, Take Off Your Kit

On this week's episode, we go down the Mississippi and up the Nile. Denial is a river in Egypt and Déshabillée is a state of undress in France - and this is the only show that embraces both of them...

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Politics & Current Affairs

Going Dutch

Well, it's that time of year again, when the media run their annual stories from Japan about the biggest yearly population fall since records began...

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The Mark Steyn Audio Show

DOGE vs DREGS

If you missed this week's Clubland Q&A, here's the action replay...

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Politics & Current Affairs

Keeping It Simple

It's not that complicated...

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The Mark Steyn Audio Show

Hard to Get Through on the Phone

In a summer anthology of poetry and music, Mark remembers Shelley, Mabel and an Ulster atrocity...

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On the Town

Words That Jangle in Your Head: The Songs of Alan and Marilyn Bergman

Steyn salutes a great songwriting team...

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Mann vs Steyn

The Worm has Turned...

Who owes one million dollars now?

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The Mark Steyn Show

Enablers of Evil

Today's episode was filmed live on the Mark Steyn Iberian Cruise with three of our special guests: Sammy Woodhouse, Samantha Smith and Allison Pearson...

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Steyn's Song of the Week

Come Fly with Me

Up there where the air is rarefied: Sinatra and the soundtrack of the Jet Age...

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On the Town

Grand at the Game

On Serenade Radio's latest episode of Mark Steyn on the Town, we take off with Caterina Valente, and build up, somewhat counter-intuitively, to the forgotten theme from a floppo sitcom. But in between come a gubernatorial blockbuster, a cavalcade of Non-Stop Number Ones, and five words you can take to the bank: Frank Sinatra sings Cole Porter.

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A Clubman's Notes

An Unwanted Intrusion at Victoria

Welcome to the conclusion of our seventy-third Tale for Our Time: The Final Problem by Arthur Conan Doyle. In this grand dénouement Holmes and Watson are booked on the Continental express, but at Victoria Station the latter cannot find the former: In vain I searched among the groups of travellers and leave-takers for the lithe figure of my friend. There was no sign of him. I spent a few minutes in assisting a venerable Italian priest, who was endeavouring to make a porter understand, in his broken English, that his luggage was to be booked through to Paris. Then, having taken another look round, I returned to my carriage, where I found that the porter, in spite of the ticket, had given me my decrepit Italian friend as a travelling ...

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A Clubman's Notes

The Napoleon of Crime

Programming note: Tomorrow, Saturday, please join me for the latest edition of my Serenade Radio weekend music show, Mark Steyn on the Town. The fun starts at 5pm British Summer Time - which is 6pm in Western Europe and 12 noon North American Eastern. You can listen from almost anywhere on the planet by clicking the button at top right here. ~Ahead of that, welcome to the seventy-third audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time. We are in our ninth season, and we've built a spectacular archive that runs the gamut from A to Z ...well, not quite, but certainly A to W - Jane Austen to P G Wodehouse. The newest addition to our collection is our fourth adaptation by the author who launched our series of audio adventures, Sir Arthur ...

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Steyn's Song of the Week

I Get A Kick Out Of You

Mark on a Cole Porter classic...

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On the Town

Love Alone

On this week's episode, we start and end with memorable mononyms, from Sting to Hildegarde. We also remember Cleo Laine and the Royal Victoria Hotel in Nassau...

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A Clubman's Notes

An Irritating Pretence

Welcome to the conclusion of our seventy-second Tale for Our Time: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad...

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A Clubman's Notes

Heads You Lose

Welcome to Part Eleven of our tale...

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A Clubman's Notes

Buried in a Heap of Cotton-Wool

In tonight's episode of Heart of Darkness, there is something more terrifying than cannibals - fog...

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A Clubman's Notes

Lost in a Daze

Welcome to Part Seven of our seventy-second audio entertainment in Tales for Our Time. This summer, we're enjoying Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad...

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A Clubman's Notes

Imbecile Rapacity

In Part Five of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness our protagonist finds his fellow Europeans both absurd and disturbing...

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A Clubman's Notes

A Vast Amount of Red

Welcome to Part Two of Heart of Darkness, our summer audio adventure in Tales for Our Time...

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A Clubman's Notes

The Very End of the World

Welcome to the seventy-second audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time...

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Tales for Our Time

The Prisoner of Windsor

A remote fantastical kingdom far from Europe's chancelleries of power... An unpopular monarch on the eve of his coronation... A ruling class of plotters and would-be usurpers... ...and a gentleman adventurer on holiday. No, not Ruritania in the nineteenth century, but the United Kingdom in the twenty-first...

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