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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.
Lots going on around the world, so shoot me questions on anything that tickles your fancy. Whatever you ask, I'm going to respond as follows - because this is the most brilliant answer, and it works for almost any question on any public policy whatsoever. Try it yourself: "The work that we have begun is the work that is going to be ongoing." If Joe Biden had been savvy enough to respond to every debate question with the answer below, he'd still be the nominee:
Reporter: Will you work with the GOP on the border issue?
— The Investigative Examiners (@TruthorConseq12) July 27, 2024
Harris: (I'm still trying to figure out this response!) pic.twitter.com/YUfcThaOb9
"It will visit itself upon us in a very domestic way": Magnificent! My only slight concern is whether a majority of Americans are that sanguine about the thought of Kamala visiting herself upon them in a very domestic way for four long years...
I'm also happy to take any questions you might have on one or other or both of my free-speech lawsuits on either side of the Atlantic. Many listeners have asked if there are any ways they can support the cause. Well, there are several ways:
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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. We love to hear from brand new members. Among the additions to our ranks in recent days are newbies from around the globe - from Hampshire to Haifa, Michigan to Moose Jaw, Sydney to Skaneateles, West Palm Beach to West Dunbartonshire. 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...
