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Beyond The Mark Steyn Show:
Columns, poems, tales, music, movies and more from Mark and friends

Laura's Links

Am Yisrael Chai

Laura Rosen Cohen presents her round-up of excellent links from around the world...

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The Mark Steyn Audio Show

Face Time at the White House

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

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Clubland Q&A

Live Around the Planet: Wednesday May 21st

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

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Politics & Current Affairs

Lie, Lie, and Lie Again

On Biden and beyond: new lies to cover the old lies...

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Politics & Current Affairs

No Change, and Decay

The consistent message from the permanent ruling class around the west is that nothing will be permitted to change on anything that matters...

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Steyn's Song of the Week

Who's Afraid of the Weeping Willow?

Today's episode celebrates an old friend of our host, the late Ann Ronell, who tells Mark about her two biggest hits...

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Rick's Flicks

Grim Up North: Michael Caine in Get Carter

Rick McGinnis on a new kind of British gangster film...

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On the Town

Europoppin'!

In this week's episode, we have a Eurovisionish edition, but don't worry, it's from the days before Eurovision was either bouncy-bouncy boom-bang-a-bang or just screamingly camp. Plus the Continental Sinatra and a cavalcade of Non-Stop Number Ones...

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The Mark Steyn Show

Offed by Ofcom

A GB News reunion on the latest Mark Steyn Show: Dan Wootton, Laurence Fox and Naomi Wolf...

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Politics & Current Affairs

Shell Games

Steyn on Comey and incitement to murder - plus Starmer's political prisoners and Jake Tapper's rube readers...

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The Mark Steyn Audio Show

Dancing with the Sauds

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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Clubland Q&A

Live Around the Planet: Wednesday May 14th

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

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Politics & Current Affairs

Diversity and Its Discontents

Steyn picks five details of the big picture...

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Steyn's Song of the Week

Happy Birthday to You

There's really only one song with which we could celebrate The Mark Steyn Club's eighth anniversary...

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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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Politics & Current Affairs

Eight Speech

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...

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On the Town

Jinns, Rosières, and Prince Bob

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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Politics & Current Affairs

When the Police Switch Sides

Disgraceful scenes on the streets of Montreal...

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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...

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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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A Clubman's Notes

Night of a Thousand Scars

Thank you for your many kind comments on our eighth-birthday Tale for Our Time. There are sixty-nine others in our extensive archive. Our seventieth, however, is Three Men on the Bummel, Jerome K Jerome's comic romp of 1900. Steyn Clubber Fraser Sutherland writes re the author's observations on cultural differences: I lived and worked in Bavaria for three years; as a firm result of that experience I concluded that there was a lot in the widely-held view that the German people lived for the State and not the other way round - as the 'British' so fondly believed of themselves. This cultural inclination became apparent in the gradual accretion of small incidents broadly described as: inordinate respect for the system and an excess of ...

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A Clubman's Notes

German Today, French Tomorrow

In Part Nineteen of Three Men on the Bummel, our trio finds themselves in a part of Europe where borders are highly conditional...

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A Clubman's Notes

The Veal in the View

Part Eighteen of Jerome K Jerome's comic romp Three Men on the Bummel, now hurtling - or digressing - towards its thrilling finale...

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A Clubman's Notes

The Self-Driving Horse

Steyn reads Episode Seventeen of Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K Jerome...

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A Clubman's Notes

A Horse in the House

Episode Sixteen of Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K Jerome...

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A Clubman's Notes

Bicycling Off-Poster

Episode Fifteen of Mark's latest Tale for Our Time, Jerome K Jerome's Three Men on the Bummel...

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A Clubman's Notes

Piano-Playing at the Eleventh Hour

Episode Fourteen of Three Men on the Bummel...

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A Clubman's Notes

Durchgang Verboten!

Episode Thirteen of Jerome K Jerome's meandering and easily diverted bicycle ride through the Black Forest...

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A Clubman's Notes

Diversity in Carlsbad

Episode Twelve of Three Men on the Bummel...

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A Clubman's Notes

I Should Cocoa

Part Eleven of our eighth-birthday Tale for Our Time - Jerome K Jerome's Three Men on the Bummel...

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A Clubman's Notes

"What Makes You Think That?"

Part Ten of our current Tale for Our Time - Jerome K Jerome's sequel to his enduring comic classic Three Men in a Boat...

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A Clubman's Notes

Capital Disappointment

Part Nine of Jerome K Jerome's second very popular contribution to Tales for Our Time: our intrepid trio arrive in the German capital...

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A Clubman's Notes

Lessons in Language

Part Eight of our birthday Tale. After a week of digressions, our trio finally arrive in Germany, to begin digressing more Germanically...

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A Clubman's Notes

The Non-Scenic Route

Part Seven of our birthday Tale for Our Time - Three Men on the Bummel by the master of comic digression, Jerome K Jerome...

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A Clubman's Notes

Nothing Useful

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

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A Clubman's Notes

Uncle Podger Among the Costermongers

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...

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A Clubman's Notes

Rise and Shine

Part Four of Mark's serialisation of Jerome K Jerome's sequel to Three Men in a Boat - Three Men on the Bummel...

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A Clubman's Notes

The Overhauler Cometh

Part Three of Mark's serialisation of Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K Jerome...

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A Clubman's Notes

The Society of Other Men

Welcome to Part Two of Three Men on the Bummel, our springtime audio adventure in Tales for Our Time...

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A Clubman's Notes

Kind of a Bummel

Welcome to the seventieth audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time...

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