On March 27, 2024 at 3:58 pm, Toby Pilling wrote:
If the Church of England practices the opposite of muscular Christianity, should we all just convert to Norse paganism? At least that way we might get some revenge on those who've betrayed us, as our societies burn.
On March 27, 2024 at 3:59 pm, Walt Trimmer wrote:
Did you see the Angiolini Inquiry report on British policing? I read about it on Aljazeera, the newspaper of record for half a Great Britain. It concludes with something about, "who's the wanker in the big blue hat."
On March 27, 2024 at 3:59 pm, Reid T wrote:
Will the pendulum ever, ever, swing back to the point where conservatives* give it to the liberals* as good the libs give it to the conservatives?
Will there ever, ever come a day when the true criminals are the ones facing 91 indictments in show trials held in kangaroo courts to bedazzle the ultra-credulous and mass-formation hypnotized electorate?
* For lack of better shorthand terms, but they're more accurately characterized as those in touch with reality and those who hate reality, but that's another discussion.
On March 27, 2024 at 4:00 pm, Roy Eappen wrote:
Wishing you you well as always. I always remember you in my prayers. I wonder if the woke and transgender Marxist movement is losing influence by advocating for medicalization of children. As you know there is now a lot of European pushback. And there is now even push back in Alberta and manny Red states.
On March 27, 2024 at 4:01 pm, Scott Schertzer wrote:
Dear Mark:
Thank you for today's later starting time as it coincides perfectly with afternoon tea (I'm choosing to identify as a Brit today).
For the life of me I can't understand what the ruling classes of the west have to gain by tearing down our civilization. Why do they think it's to their benefit to promote incompetency in fields like science, governance, academia and the arts? They already have wealth and power so there must be more to it than meets the eye.
Even the most ignorant of our elite must understand that food doesn't magically show up on the table (even in Michelin rated restaurants), that fossil fuels are the most plentiful and efficient form of the energy they require for their mansions, yachts and private jets and that it takes an educated, competent population in order to keep the lights on as it were.
These elites might not care about us, but what do they expect to bequeath to their own offspring in a world gone to seed? Why wouldn't they rather retain their good fortune in a prosperous world than sit on a throne overseeing a world of decay?
Take good care of yourself and continue fighting the darkness.
Sincerely,
Scott Schertzer
Miami Beach
On March 27, 2024 at 4:01 pm, OLGA from Arizona wrote:
Hello,
Since culture is always cyclical, we're bound to eventually see an upswing of normalcy, but will it take the same two hundred & fifty years the slow bleed of destruction took?
On March 27, 2024 at 4:05 pm, Brian from Minneapolis wrote:
Dear Mark,
Any idea on the status of the captured ISIS-K terrorists? It's shocking that a so called extremist attack would result in all participants captured and from the looks of one video, without resistance or incident. It is almost as if they knew they wouldn't be killed. I don't trust our intelligence because they couldn't stop the Kabul attack and bomb an innocent family on the way out of Afghanistan. Anything they got that was credible was allowed to be given to them. I don't think it was by accident. What say you Mark?
On March 27, 2024 at 4:06 pm, Robert Norris wrote:
Mark,
You have so much background around the Theatre and wonder if you can regale us with your current thoughts about it, and also reprise the thesis from your 'Broadway Babies' book that I suspect I should take the plunge into reading and enjoying.
Rob
On March 27, 2024 at 4:08 pm, Dan wrote:
The Key Bridge incident. Could this bridge have been chosen for attack as it strangely does not have a proper protective berm around the stanchions ? Hong Kong and Singapore connection ? Cyber attack or good old fashioned sabotage ? In any case the emergency reaction was completely wrong, sending the ship on a collision course but going violently astern and causing the ship's course to change. The captain and Pilots could have stood on and gone through the gap ( it appears ). Or dropped the anchor(s).
On March 27, 2024 at 4:08 pm, Nicola Timmerman wrote:
What do think of the fact that the six killed working on potholes on the Baltimore bridge were from Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras? Illegals probably working in a Democrat state. This not underlined by media so far. R.I.P.
On March 27, 2024 at 4:14 pm, Fran Lavery wrote:
How optimistic are you about your case vs Ofcom are you, Mark? I'm very eager to watch how a less corrupt and slimy justice system functions. My Steyn vs the Stick mug and mouse pad arrived in time for Easter. Now I just need a Mark Steyn doll complete with the broken hockey stick in the clenched jaw. Curtains for free speech here. Very dispiriting.
On March 27, 2024 at 4:14 pm, Robert Fox wrote:
A year ago, why didn't Nigel hitch his wagon with Steyn? Regardless of his opinion of Mark, he should have been well aware that Ofcom was training its sites on other GB News targets and that siding with Mark Steyn from the get go would have been a shrewd decision to make. Or did he really think the thugs at Ofcom would have been satisfied with Mark's scalp and have left everyone else alone?
On March 27, 2024 at 4:14 pm, Greg Warren wrote:
Hi Mark,
Hope that you ate feeling better. (I wish I were).
Anyhow, regarding Richard Tice's folding to the usual suspects suvch as Cope Not Fate about deselecting Reform candidates, could Saint Nigel stepping in taking control of the party possibly save it from the condition of conrolled opposition? Or has the rot of the country gone too far?
On March 27, 2024 at 4:17 pm, Bill Dekker wrote:
Dear Mark,
I enjoy hearing how screwed we are as much as any other Steyn Club member but your stories from the entertainment world provide a much needed break from the Voice of Doom (with all due apologies to Lorne Greene).
Do you feel that those who combine songwriting and performing struggle to remain creative and productive for as long as those who either exclusively write or perform? I think of the people and careers referenced in "Mark Steyn's American Songbook" or "Broadway Babies Say Goodnight" (both still available at the SteynOnline store) and on the surface, there appears to be a trend.
What do you think about this, and if this is happening, why?
Warm Regards,
Bill
On March 27, 2024 at 4:19 pm, Bideford Jake wrote:
"The rain is on the mountainside/The beast is in the silent meadow/The northcountryside is patiently waiting again./Blackbird is dumb in the juniper/Lapwing shivers in the dripping thicket/Down in the stone-faced town one door opens."
Dear Mark, I had to sign up to the club after your scintillating show last week. Thank you for introducing me to Steve Lawrence and by extension the fabulous Ad-Men sketch on the Carol Burnett show. Such pure, unalloyed pleasure seemed a distant memory. I agree with you that many can sing but not all can swing and Lawrence certainly did those standards proud. That Cole Porter line always affects - 'Are you my life to be?'
The lines I quoted are by Jake Thackray, for me, the finest English songwriter of recent years. If anyone remembers him now it's usually as 'that weird-looking guy who sang the funny songs on Braden's Week.' But he was so much more than that. His later recording of The Blacksmith & the Toffee Maker is I think one of the highest forms of the song writing craft. Jake was always self-deprecating but was forever praising the songs of his friend and idol, George Brassens, who he claimed was "Head, shoulders, knees and ankles above all other singers." As a Francophile, Mark, do you rate George Brassens and did you ever meet Jake Thackray?
Thank you as ever, for speaking out against the madness. Someone said on Free Speech Nation last week that when she looks out on her society and culture it feels as though she's living in a psychiatric ward. I second that. And Mark Steyn is R P McMurphy!
God Bless,
Bideford Jake
On March 27, 2024 at 4:21 pm, Kelly Walter wrote:
Mark,
Best wishes for continued health improvement and for your double whammy court cases. I'm still waving my Liberty Stick on your behalf. Any plans for another product to help with funding your cases. Perhaps Liberty Pitchforks and Torches for the coming peasant uprising?
Any thoughts on RFK Jr's VP choice? Will his selection put his campaign over the top or doom him to ignominy?
On March 27, 2024 at 4:22 pm, eaglepatriotminuteman1776 wrote:
Dear Mr. Steyn,
The events you cited as evidence of a lack of turbulence, the January 6th protest and the Canadian Truckers protests, are prime examples of turbulence. Turbulence exists amongst the proletarian and bourgeois classes, but not amongst the ruling classes.
Revolutionary movements require someone or a group of people with political power to take control of them and direct them towards a realistic strategic objective. Without such people to control an outbreak of revolutionary resistance, the movement fails, as did the January 6th and Canadian Truckers protests. Had these protests been led and directed by people with power or those willing to take power they would have stood more chance of success. Instead, they were both leaderless mobs.
Those who should have taken the reins of control, Republican politicians, didn't, which is why these movements failed. It isn't the people that lack turbulence, amongst them there is plenty. It is our Republican politicians who lack turbulence, or, in other words: moral fibre.
I still stand by my comments from last Friday. I hate this country, if you can even call it a country. I hate the flag, I hate the government, and I hate the Declaration of Independence too! The words "all men are created equal" are the stupidest set of words ever put on paper. They exceed Ibram X. Kendi's writings in their stupidity because Jefferson and his contemporaries knew better while Kendi is a retard. I'll take rule by a King and House of Lords with veto power over the House of Commons and Rotten Boroughs over American Federalism any bloody day of the week!
The reason I hate this country is that like the Soviet Union, it is built on a lie and I am tired of living by lies. Men are not created equal. All men are different, some better than others. No one will lie to my face and tell me Rishi Sunak, Boris Johnson, or Dianne Abbot are my equals. The longer people accept and live by lies the greater is the debt to the truth. A huge debt is accumulating and the creditors are coming.
Yours Faithfully,
William
On March 27, 2024 at 4:23 pm, The Notorious Mr. J wrote:
Once again, greetings and good health to you!
The spectacle of European farmers' demonstrations is back in the news, with a protest hitting London. You can find details on the YouTube site of a charming chap named Jeff Taylor. Like other such affairs, some of the protest is over bread-and-butter policy issues but heat is also drawn by the impositions of the nutty Net Zero delusion by Government. Now politicians often play the myopic short sighted gain game (think about how they spend money fighting the evils of smoking and subsidize tobacco farmers) and isn't the Net Zero push more of the same? Consider:
i.) There will be a demand for food, no matter what. Surely they'll just be off shoring the "pollution" to countries that may have lower standards of practice? And what will this do to the price of food for the consumer?
ii) And now for the big Global picture. Is their attack on their own Agriculture really a "killing of the land", increasing global food insecurity by decreasing the total of Earth's tilled land?
iii.) If they have a hidden agenda of force feeding us weird alternative substitutes (bugs, synthetic goodies of all yummy flavors) are they maybe betting on untested technologies, a gamble that could prove catastrophic?
iv.) And do observe that all this fundamental change is being enacted by mandarin edict, not the democratic process. In our latter day Poo-Baa's there beats a totalitarian heart.
On March 27, 2024 at 4:26 pm, Veronica L wrote:
Hello Mark,
I'm generally not a great fan of Candace Owens, Ben Shapiro, Andrew Klavan or anyone, except for Matt Walsh, at the Daily Wire but why have they decided to dump Owens over her dispute with the two very strange Rabbis? She demolished one in an interview and the other is clearly not playing with a full deck and yet DW decides to get rid of Candace? It seems the real reason is because she won't 100% back Israel, as Shapiro and company do, and that's why she's got the boot. So much for free speech. This is why the Right loses out with many younger people by the way, they are totally out of touch with where the audience is now. Thoughts on this situation please?
On March 27, 2024 at 4:26 pm, Skinny wrote:
Hi Mark,
Greetings from Philadelphia. Hope you are doing well and will be fully recovered by the time you endeavor on your on Battle of Hastings and take out the Harald's of our day over at Ofcom. With all of your current litigation it's easy to forget some of your past legal tilts, such as CCTV. Specifically, did Cary Katz ever pay up?
On March 27, 2024 at 4:40 pm, OLGA from Arizona wrote:
Hello, Mr. Steyn,
Continued prayers for your full recovery.
Every time another container ship runs into a bridge, or another plane starts falling apart mid-air, I refer to the corresponding page in my ancient copy of Atlas Shrugged. I suspect Miss Rand did not intend it as an instruction manual, but the pygmies, as you've just aptly termed them, in charge were never smart enough to know any better.
On March 27, 2024 at 4:53 pm, Greg Warren wrote:
Petticoats of Portugal?
A sweet song, but not as swinging as Knickers of Norway.
On March 27, 2024 at 5:02 pm, OLGA from Arizona wrote:
Since Greg started it, Slips of Senegal & Teddies of Tanzania are also quite charming.
On March 27, 2024 at 5:25 pm, William Kelly wrote:
I grew up playing the trumpet, and most enjoyed playing in the jazz band. Since the choir and band were separate, we only played instrumental music.
One of my favorite band leaders was Stan Kenton. I particularly enjoy his band's version of You Go to My Head by Graettinger. Do you have any thoughts about it?
-William
On March 27, 2024 at 7:31 pm, Mike Cliffson wrote:
Dear Mark,
God send you recover your health against all these transatlantic creepy blighters in cahoots.
This side a' the pond
One
My thumbs a-prickling over Mr Barak Soetero Obama s visit to Mr Sunak at number 10 but I lack (and envy!) your insight and superb expression of it. (I'd be doing it myselif it were easy)
Little about Brit justice over the last few years but that it's depressing ...the grooming gang cases (fined for overuse of patchouli?) The travesty trial and sentencing of Tommy Robinson, the de-custodying of parents (and death dealing custody in cases of sick kids when the NHS is set on murder) in cases involving the RSPCA grooming gangs all sorts, the ruination of thousands (or tens of thousands? ) of sub-post office masters and mistresses where the only evidence in every case is the same computer error and the fact that authority has sanctified same error... and the mean minging slow walking of inadequate restitution, and I am horrified coroner's courts have been hobbled over jab-harm getting folks dreaded. HOW?*
