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Starmer's Political Prisoner
If you're in many parts of the Commonwealth (although not Scotland), Happy Easter Monday. If you're in many parts of Europe, Happy Vízbevető, Happy Śmigus-dyngus Happy Velikonoční pondělí or Happy Veľkonočný pondelok, according to taste. If you're in the United States, Happy First Day of Just Another Working Week. In the Catholic quarters of Mitteleuropa, this is the day when the boys spank the girls on their legs and buttocks with gaily decorated branches in order to keep them healthy, comely and fecund through the coming year. It's always worked for me. So, on this post-Easter holiday, I thought you might enjoy a brief glimpse of life aboard the Mark Steyn Cruise courtesy of The Ann & Phelim Scoop with Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer ...
Mark's Week in Review
A Se'nnight of Steyn: April 12-19
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked at SteynOnline...
Rick's Flicks
Summertime Blues: James Stewart in Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
Last week I wrote about Cary Grant's Mr. Blandings and his dream house, in a film released in 1948 during an international housing crisis, and just before the effects of the postwar economic boom started to be felt in the United States. This week we're fast forwarding fourteen years, to another middle-class American everyman played by another Hollywood icon, at the peak of that boom, trying to enjoy a whole hard-earned month of summer holidays. Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation came out in 1962, the same year as the Cuban Missile Crisis, the last atmospheric nuclear test, the launch of the Telstar satellite and the death of Marilyn Monroe. It was the year before Beatlemania, and the year after Judy Garland's Carnegie Hall comeback concert, the ...
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
The Girl That Married Dear Old Dad
If you missed today's edition of Steyn's Clubland Q&A live around the planet, here's the action replay...
Clubland Q&A
Live Around the Planet: Wednesday April 16th
Mark takes questions from Steyn Club members around the planet...
Politics & Current Affairs
When the Police Switch Sides
Disgraceful scenes on the streets of Montreal...
On the Town
Flight of Fancy
On this week's edition of Mark Steyn on the Town Mark celebrates the great Josephine Baker and observes the International Day of Human Space Flight with Nat King Cole, Linda Ronstadt's nephews, and a totally spaced-out Sinatra. He also remembers an old friend and colleague, Serenade's mid-morning man Dick Fisher, who died last weekend...
Topical Take
The Lies We Tell Ourselves
Steyn on Adolescence, the Montreal massacre, and the lies we tell ourselves...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Body and Soul
If you missed today's Serenade Radio broadcast, here's a chance to catch up via this SteynOnline premiere of one of our audio Songs of the Week. In this show I tell the story of one of the most recorded of all compositions...
Politics & Current Affairs
Purpose vs Passivity
Setting aside any "national security" concerns arising from letting The Atlantic's Russia-hoaxer Jeffrey Goldberg in on the Administration's Houthi-bombing call, I doubt that any creature more sentient than an amoeba can have been surprised to learn that US cabinet members "loathe" European "freeloading". If you're paying attention, you'll know that total contempt for the Euros appears to be entirely bipartisan...
Mann vs Steyn
COURT FOOL, n. The plaintiff.
Live by Falsifying Evidence, Die by Falsifying Evidence...
Mann vs Steyn
Mann Ordered to Pay More than Those He Sought to Destroy
In a stunning but not unexpected ruling today, Judge Irving of the DC Superior Court has reduced the unconstitutional punitive damages jury award against Mark from one million dollars to a mere $5,000...
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...
The Mark Steyn Show
The Whole Earth Is Our Hospital...
An Easter entry to Mark's anthology of video poetry - from T S Eliot's Four Quartets...
On the Town
Bededag Meets Bard
Easter hits from the Commonwealth, and post-Easter hits from Scandinavia - plus a cavalcade of Number Ones down the decades, and Sinatra sings Shakespeare...
A Clubman's Notes
"This Will Kill That"
Mark presents a special Easter Tale for Our Time featuring selections from Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris...
A Clubman's Notes
Seeping Back into the Matrix
Welcome to the final episode of our current Tale for Our Time. As the concluding episode of The Rubber Check begins, Val Schuyler is momentarily flush...
A Clubman's Notes
Cutting In ...and Cut Out
Welcome to the latest of The Mark Steyn Club's Tales for Our Time: Mark reads Part Two of Scott Fitzgerald's short story "The Rubber Check"...
A Clubman's Notes
Bouncing On
This weekend we enjoy the simplest of short stories, a tale of catastrophic ordinariness: The Rubber Check, written in 1932 by F Scott Fitzgerald...
A Clubman's Notes
Unhappy Motoring
Welcome to the conclusion of our springtime Tale for Our Time: The Girl on the Boat by P G Wodehouse...
A Clubman's Notes
The Hall Fills Up Nicely
In tonight's penultimate episode of The Girl on the Boat, Smith is thrilled to see the household assemble for the final showdown...
A Clubman's Notes
Asunder at the Seaside
Our latest Tale for Our Time charges on: Episode Nine of The Girl on the Boat, P G Wodehouse's comic romp of 1922...
A Clubman's Notes
"How Was I to Know?"
In Episode Eight of The Girl on the Boat, a ship's concert for the benefit of the Seamen's Widows and Orphans is trying enough in the best of circumstances, but even more so when your fiancée fails to recognise who you're meant to be imitating...
A Clubman's Notes
The Hit of the Trinity Smoker
It's time for Part Seven of our latest Tale for Our Time: The Girl on the Boat is P G Wodehouse's nautical entertainment of 1922...
A Clubman's Notes
An Excess of Rhyme
Welcome to Part Six of our nightly audio entertainment - The Girl on the Boat, P G Wodehouse's comic diversion of 1922...
A Clubman's Notes
Exclusive Interview!
Welcome to Part Five of our brand new Tale for Our Time: The Girl on the Boat by P G Wodehouse, published in 1922...
A Clubman's Notes
The Which of What
Here we go with Part Four of our latest audio diversion, and our second foray into the oeuvre of P G Wodehouse...
A Clubman's Notes
Crag to Crag, Blonde to Blonde
Welcome to the third installment of our brand new Tale for Our Time, an ocean-going romp by P G Wodehouse, published in 1922...
A Clubman's Notes
Cat-Swinging on the Briny
Welcome to Part Two of The Girl on the Boat, our latest audio adventure in Tales for Our Time and our second foray into the oeuvre of P G Wodehouse - as well as, we hope, a respite from the woes of the world, if only for twenty minutes before you lower your lamp...
A Clubman's Notes
When the Getting Was Good...
Welcome to the sixty-ninth audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time...
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