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Yes, it's me! Mark Steyn of that ilk - and still here, just about, despite the best efforts of Ofcom, the District of Columbia Superior Court and the University of Vermont Medical Center. So I'm raring to go for today's edition of our Clubland Q&A, live around the planet at 3pm North American Eastern - which is 8pm British Summer Time/9pm Central European. If you chance to be elsewhere, do check local listings below.
There's plenty going on across the map, from the Nato summit in Washington to the thwarted Olympic terror plot in Paris to the ongoing speculations about Biden's "second" term - which requires one to accept that he has been governing as chief executive for this "first" term. Which is codswallop.
Happy to take questions on all the above, or anything else on your mind.
~I'm also up for any queries on my continuing legal battles on both sides of the Atlantic - in the sewer of DC "justice", and against the UK state censor Ofcom in the King's Bench Division of the English High Court. Regarding the latter, here's me and the formidable Naomi Wolf outside the Royal Courts of Justice a couple of weeks back:
"Even the 1857 censors could never have imagined the sweeping powers of Ofcom...
could it be that all of these parliaments, all of these governing bodies, all of these judges who are starting to rule that censorship of this information is unlawful... are wrong and only Ofcom is... https://t.co/UdIpOTpMij pic.twitter.com/SFWw3EFC0u
— Mark Steyn (@MarkSteynOnline) July 8, 2024
Many listeners have asked how they can support one or other or both of these free-speech lawsuits. There are several ways:
a) signing up a friend for a Steyn Club Gift Membership;
b) buying a near-and-dear one a SteynOnline gift certificate; or
c) ordering a copy of my latest book, The Prisoner of Windsor (you won't regret it, says Kathy Gyngell).
~Whether or not you're a member of The Mark Steyn Club, you can listen to our Clubland Q&A live as it happens wherever you chance to be on this turbulent earth: Club membership is required only to ask a question. In the first weeks of this eighth year, we cherish all the founders of our Club, but we also love to hear from brand new members. Among the additions to our ranks in recent days are newbies from around the globe - from Florida to Forest Lodge, from London, England to London, Ontario, from Kingston-on-Thames to Kingston, Jamaica. Whether you've joined this week either for a full year or a see-how-it-goes experimental quarter do shoot me a head-scratcher for today's show.
But, if you're not interested in joining, no worries, as they say in Oz: We seek no unwilling members - and as always the show is free to listen to, so we hope you'll want to tune in. So see you back here at 3pm North American Eastern - which is 8pm in London, 9pm in Paris, 10pm in Jerusalem; half-past-ten in Teheran; midnight-forty-five in Kathmandu; 3am in Singapore and Honkers (sorry about that); 5am in Sydney and Melbourne; 7am in Auckland, and a rather more convivial hour for the kippers and kedgeree in His Majesty's Dominions eastward across the Pacific, where you're so far ahead I've probably already lost my appeal by now...