I blame Ofcom... But, seriously. Please accept my apologies for being unable to go live today. A particular gremlin called "FocusRite" - which worked when tested two hours before the show - decided to die minutes before the program was to begin. Every time I tried to reset it and get the mic to connect via this gremlin it kept saying "open stream failed: invalid device". To those concerned about Mark: He is absolutely fine and enjoying a post-election jaunt with his daughter. Today's snafu was all on me. Unfortunately. I'm working on a different way to respond to all your great questions and will post as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience. Today we return for our weekly Clubland Q&A taking questions from Mark Steyn Club members ...
Yesterday, we brought you the first show that offended Ofcom's mission to silence anyone who dares to question the government false narrative re: the "safety and efficacy" of the Covid-19 vaccine. Today, we bring you the analysis by two experts - real experts- the day after Mark was found guilty by the UK's chief censor. Here's how Mark introduced the program: ~Yesterday in the UK Mark was found guilty of breaching Ofcom's "rules" in a show from last April on the Covid vaccines and their efficacy. Since then, notwithstanding the British regulator and its "advice", the story has moved relentlessly in Steyn's direction: the vaccine boosters have been increasingly abandoned by the public where they have a choice in such matters, and ...
UPDATE via @TexasLindsay: "We did it!! We hit the goal! Thank you so so very much to everyone who shared and donated to help Mark Steyn. I LOVE YOU ALL! ...The censors in the UK aim to make an example of Mark & make others afraid to speak against the narrative—but we're sending a powerful message back to these tyrants: WE ARE NOT AFRAID." As Mark faces a looming court deadline tomorrow, we thought we would bring you the first of two shows the UK's chief censor Ofcom deemed "harmful" - not because what he said about the Covid vaccines wasn't true. It was and remains true. But because it "harmed" the UK government's false narrative that the covid vaccine was safe and effective. Since the initial airing of this show, the UK government's ...
UPDATE: APOLOGIES FOR THE TECHNICAL ISSUES THE LAST FEW DAYS. THEY SHOULD BE RESOLVED NOW. Meanwhile, in case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark...
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were at the pinnacle of their careers when they made Sons of the Desert in 1933, an efficient and economical comedy feature barely over 90 minutes long that's considered one of their best films, and whose title was adopted as the name of the pair's international fan club. Perhaps not coincidentally, the film was made at a crucial point in the history of both Hollywood and America, and in the personal lives of its stars. Sons of the Desert is technically a "pre-Code" picture, made just before the full weight of enforcement of Will Hays' Code was given to the Production Code Administration under Joseph Breen. Next to the introduction of sound, it would be the most critical factor leading to Hollywood's golden ...
Greetings one and all and welcome to this week's edition of Laura's Links. I have to tell you something. I still can't stop smiling about the American election. And guys, for real and not for joking, I AM NOT TIRED OF WINNING. With every press release of the new appointments from Team Trump, I just cannot believe my ears. It's MAGA MUSIC TO MY EARS, GUYS. I can't even decide what I like more, the appointments themselves or the lefty reactions to them. I don't think I will ever stop loving both. They need to cry much, much more. Especially the blue hairs. And the (as Batya Ungar-Sargon calls them), the "know nothing they/thems". This is not the time for reconciliation and kind words. Sorry, not sorry. They tried TO KILL Trump. They punished ...
If you missed today's edition of Mark's Clubland Q&A live around the planet, here's the action replay. Steyn was back at the microphone, fielding questions on Trump's new team ...and the same old-same old over in the Senate...
Thoroughly Modern Milley and the American way of war...
California manages to count forty-four per cent of Eric Shagdwell's vote...
Steyn answers your questions on the most amazing comeback in American political history...
No way no how will the opposition leader be taking office...
Steyn on New York State's grotesque execution of a beloved squirrel...
The Freeish World's lousiest election system continues to work its dark magic...
Three little girls sacrificed on the altar of "diversity"...
A rare stage appearance by Steyn, as he returns to America's diseased and depraved capital city for address a Hillsdale College audience on Post-Constitution Day...
Is the CIA getting its plot twists from The Prisoner of Windsor?
On the eve of Remembrance Day/Armistice Day/Veterans Day, this week's edition of Mark Steyn on the Town plays the music of the Great War - songs that are over a hundred years old but are still sung, including a summer pop hit from 2010; a soldiers' favourite that supposedly evokes the sound of French bedsprings; and the only Sinatra track to be banned across the British Empire. To listen to the programme, simply click here and log-in. ~Last week's pre-election edition of On the Town attracted a lot of comment. Peter, a First Week Founding Member of The Mark Steyn Club, writes: Nice show as always Mark; a fine respite from the ugliness of the 'real' world. Hearing Frank S. interact with the Presidents, it makes me smile ironically knowing ...
It could be worse. Mark could be banged up in Belmarsh like poor old Tommy. [UPDATE: more on the corrupt two-tier UK judiciary breaking now.] Today, Justice Farbey of the High Court in London ruled: 1) the costs demanded by Ofcom are to be sent for detailed assessment on the standard basis 2) there will be a payment on account of £50,000 by 19 November 2024 3) Costs of today to be paid by the Claimants, save in relation to the written submissions which will be paid at 50% Mark will have twenty-one days to consider an appeal. Ofcom had demanded £144,959.28, refused to provide detailed billing to justify that amount, and then twisted that to mock the actual harm they have caused Mark and Naomi Wolf: (Steyn's) post ad hoc attempt to downplay ...
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 its world premiere at SteynOnline. In a brand new episode, two days ahead of the American "elections", Mark plays songs by mayors, governors, senators and presidential candidates - and tells the story of the only standard in the American songbook written by a man on a winning presidential ticket. You'll hear it sung and played by everyone from Dinah Shore and Nat King Cole to Van ...
A presidential Sinatra Sextet, plus Jack Jones sings Nelson Eddy and Bryan Adams...
Music to put your clocks back to, plus, with Halloween looming, the Dracula Cha-Cha and the Spooky Sinatra...
Mark tells the tale of a composer who wrote three Oscar-winners and many more nominees - yet always wanted to be back in New York working on a Broadway show...
Mike Batt joins Mark for a favourite song of four generations of female vocalists from Eartha Kitt to Miley Cyrus...
On this week's edition, Mark has hit songs with non-singing parts - plus pigtails, freckles, Cypriots, and eminent composers from Cole Porter to George Michael. Also: Frank Sinatra says his prayers...
The concluding episode of The Unparalleled Invasion, written by Jack London in 1910...
Welcome to the sixty-sixth audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time - and our seventh venture into the work of Jack London...
Mark tells the story of one of the greatest songs of all...
Mark presents sixty minutes of Number One records, songs from France and Nigeria, a bevy of ladies, a number for dictaphone, a very marmitey song, and a memorable ride over the 59th Street Bridge...
Mark remembers the multi-talented Caterina Valente, and passes on one of the greatest anecdotes he has ever been told...
Mark remembers a dear friend of the Steyn Show musical family, the guitarist Russell Malone...
Welcome to the sixty-fifth audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time - and our second venture into G K Chesterton...
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...