People claimed they'd been watching a recent Netflix film based on a novel by Robert Harris to learn about how papal conclaves work. (Even more troubling was a rumour that cardinals in Rome had been watching it.) It would have been the most obvious choice for this week's film, but the "shock twist" ending is well known and I'd rather write about another, much older film, about another papal conclave, made back before movies about the Catholic Church were more basically sympathetic...

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Programming note: I'll be back this evening, Friday, with the latest episode of our eighth-birthday Tale for Our Time, Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K Jerome. And tomorrow, Saturday, please join me for the latest episode of our Serenade Radio weekend music show, On the Town. The latter 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.. ~As part of Steyn Club eighth-anniversary observances, welcome to the first brand new video edition of The Mark Steyn Show since my health collapsed at the end of the Steyn Adriatic cruise two years ago. I look 137 years older than I did the last time I welcomed ...

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We have a Pope!

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Hello again and welcome to another fresh batch of Laura's Links...

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If you missed today's edition of Steyn's Clubland Q&A live around the planet, here's the action replay...

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Mark takes questions from Steyn Club members around the planet...

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Today is the eighth birthday of The Mark Steyn Club, launched on May 6th 2017. In honour of the occasion, the Supreme Court of Minnesota has decided to legalise women perambulating topless through the streets. Great news for the Twin Titties Cities, especially if they mandate it for the Muslim neighbourhoods: Nothing says "Diversity is our strength!" like a peephole burqa. From the actual ruling: A binary approach to breasts fails to recognize the more nuanced physical realities of human bodies, whether they are intersex, transgender, nonbinary, or breast cancer survivors. Would a transgender man be prohibited from exposing his chest? What about a transgender woman who has had top surgery? Where do the chests of intersex and nonbinary ...

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There have been significant elections in His Majesty's three senior realms this last week, and a significant post-election development in Europe, too. I'll get to most of them tomorrow, but for now I'd like to focus a little more narrowly:

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One of the most popular features of Tales for Our Time has been the music Mark chooses to accompany each story. So here, after many requests, is a sampler of the accompanying melodies from some of our tales...

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In this week's episode of Mark Steyn on the Town, we celebrate the show's first birthday with an extended outing of our Non-Stop Number Ones and a special edition of our Sinatra Sextet...

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Yesterday's government by expert is today's criminal conduct...

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Steyn on the Canadian election...

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An update on Mann vs Steyn...

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Disgraceful scenes on the streets of Montreal...

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.The sacrifice of England's girls on the altar of evil...

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An update to Michael E. Mann's lawfare...

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The French have been here before....

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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...

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Programming note: Tomorrow, Saturday, I'll be here with the latest episode of our Serenade Radio weekend music show, On the Town. It 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. ~Thank you for your continuing comments upon The Mark Steyn Club's eighth birthday. John Wilson, a First Week Founding Member from Colorado, is still seeking scapegoats for his tardiness: Today is my eighth anniversary with the Mark Steyn Club. My only regret is not getting in on day one. (I'll blame it on Cary Katz - curses be upon him - and waiting to get my refund from CRTV). Tales for our Time has always been my ...

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Welcome to Part Seven of our birthday audio entertainment in Tales for Our Time. For this springtime, we're enjoying Three Men on the Bummel by the master of comic digression, Jerome K Jerome...

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Welcome to Part Six of our birthday audio entertainment in Tales for Our Time...

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Our birthday Tale for Our Time, and the seventieth of our Steyn Club audio adventures, is Mark's serialisation of Three Men on the Bummel, Jerome K Jerome's sequel to his comic classic Three Men in a Boat. In episode five, we have a digression within a digression...

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Here we go with Part Four of our brand new Tale for Our Time - my springtime serialisation of Jerome K Jerome's even more idiosyncratic sequel to Three Men in a Boat - from 1900, Three Men on the Bummel...

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Welcome to the latest in our series of audio adventures, Tales for Our Time, and Part Three of Mark's serialisation of Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K Jerome...

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Welcome to Part Two of Three Men on the Bummel, our springtime audio adventure in Tales for Our Time. I thank you for all your kind words about this choice for our seventieth monthly yarn. John Wilson, a First Week Founding Member of The Mark Steyn Club, writes: Thank you, Mark! This really is a treat for our 8th year together. In tonight's episode of Jerome K Jerome's whimsical sequel to his best-loved book, our hero puts into operation his cunning scheme to bunk off with the chaps to the Continent for a month...

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Welcome to the seventieth audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time. That's right: our seventieth. Never thought these capers would prove that popular, but it seems they do, and month by month 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. As for our seventieth adventure, well, it's our second foray into the oeuvre of Jerome K Jerome. Back in 2019, I serialised Jerome's most famous book, Three Men in a Boat, which remains one of our most popular selections with listeners. The sequel isn't quite as famous, but it has all the key features of the original: the same trio of chaps, endless digressions, and great comic set-pieces. Three Men on the Bummel was published by Jerome K Jerome in 1900 and, like its predecessor, was a runaway bestseller. If the formula is similar, the setting and transportation are not: Instead of messing about on the River Thames, our intrepid trio will be bicycling through Germany. Ever since my reading of Three Men in a Boat, I've had requests to add this our library. So your wish is our command...

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Steyn reads C S Lewis on love of country...

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An Easter entry to Mark's anthology of video poetry - from T S Eliot's Four Quartets...

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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"...

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This weekend we enjoy the simplest of short stories, a tale of catastrophic ordinariness: The Rubber Check, written in 1932 by F Scott Fitzgerald...

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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...

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Welcome to the sixty-ninth audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time...

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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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