Programming note: Join Mark tomorrow, Wednesday, for our midweek Clubland Q&A, in which he'll be taking questions from Mark Steyn Club members live around the planet at 3pm North American Eastern - which is 8pm GMT/9pm Central European. Hope you can swing by. ~A week from today, America's uniquely unique "peaceful transition of power" will (supposedly) be over and Donald J Trump will be beginning his first full day as America's forty-seventh president. As I said the day after his tremendous victory, he should skip all the inaugural bollocks in DC and just have a brisk businesslike swearing-in on the Rio Grande by a justice of the peace (Coolidge-style) followed by 47's personal arrest and deportation of the first "undocumented" migrant to ...
The peoples of the west are taking on the psychological condition of battered wives...
Rick McGinnis on Hollywood women pre-Code...
From England's gang-rape epidemic to the alleged resignation of Justin Trudeau, Mark answers your questions...
Mark fields questions from Steyn Club members around the planet...
Ten years ago today - January 7th 2015 - two Muslim fanatics burst into the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and killed a dozen people, including the bulk of the senior editorial staff and some of France's best known cartoonists...
Steyn on Musk, Farage and the white working-class girls of England,...
Steyn revisits his coverage of England's child gang-rape scandal with Sammy Woodhouse, Samantha Smith, Maggie Oliver and more...
If you enjoy Steyn's Song of the Week at SteynOnline and on Serenade Radio, please note that there will be a live stage edition during the 2025 Mark Steyn Cruise - along with many other favourite features from SteynOnline and The Mark Steyn Show. More details here. ~If you missed Mark's Song of the Week earlier today on Serenade Radio, here's a chance to hear it at SteynOnline. In this week's edition, Mark celebrates John Barry, 007 composer and the man who invented "spy music". Joining him to evoke James Bond's musical world are a trio of Barry's lyricists - Don Black, Leslie Bricusse and Tim Rice - plus John's successor as MI6 music man from Tomorrow Never Dies to Quantum of Solace, David Arnold. There's Shirley Bassey, of course, but ...
After President Trump's suggestion that the United States should buy Greenland, Mark reads the greatest of all poems on the subject...
On this week's edition of Mark Steyn on the Town Mark celebrates a Broadway legend, an Italian composer and some Caribbean limbo. Plus: when Frank met Elvis!
Mark goes first-footnoting, gobbles a galette and swings by the Zanzibar High Court...
Mark traces the history of the undisputed champ of Hogmanay hits across the centuries, via Scotch crofters, Canadian novelists, Italian bandleaders and American movie stars...
Here's a final Sunday song selection for 2024 with Mark and special guests Carol Welsman and the late Russell Malone...
A SteynOnline tradition: our annual presentation of ancient scripture and brand new versions of favourite carols, from various members of the Steyn Show musical family...
Welcome to the sixty-seventh audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time - and the first of this year's Yuletide capers - Mystery in White, a "Christmas crime story" from 1937 by Jefferson Farjeon, scion of an eminent family, as Mark notes in his introduction, that has given us, among other delights, the definitive Rip van Winkle, a ditty about the Royal Family, and a global pop hit. Part One.
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...