The Mark Steyn Club has just celebrated its eighth birthday. We thank all the First Week Founding Members who've decided to re-up for a ninth season with us - and we hope our First Fortnight members will want to do the same as the week proceeds. I'll be back this evening, Tuesday, with the latest episode of our eighth-birthday Tale for Our Time, Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K Jerome - and also here tomorrow, Wednesday, at 3pm North American Eastern (8pm British Summer Time) for our latest Clubland Q&A, taking questions from Mark Steyn Club listeners around the world. Hope you can swing by. Here is a quintet of random news stories from around the world: ~In America, the same people who spent four years loving the open-borders Biden ...

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The winning side in the Brexit referendum is now, per Kent police, thought-crime...

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

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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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In this week's episode of Mark Steyn on the Town, we mark Golden Spike Day, enjoy songs from Texans and Tuscans, ponder a funny lady's serious turn, and remember all Frank's tomorrows.

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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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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...

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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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Disgraceful scenes on the streets of Montreal...

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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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Just ahead of Episode Twelve of Three Men on the Bummel, thank you again for your kind comments about this caper and all our other Tales for Our Time - and the rest of our content on this The Mark Steyn Club's eighth birthday. Like many readers, Fraser Sutherland, an English Steyn Clubber, particularly appreciated Jim Holman's comments yesterday: I remember watching The Mark Steyn Show on GB News and remarking: 'This guy (MS, I had never previously heard of him!) really believes what he says, that's a first for British television, dear God, he really does.' So I really second Jim's remarks, particularly the final paragraph and am glad Jim Holman wrote what he did. Thank you, Fraser. As I have come to appreciate, life is far too short to ...

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

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

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On to Part Nine of Jerome K Jerome's second very popular contribution to Tales for Our Time. In tonight's episode of Three Men on the Bummel, our intrepid trio arrive in the German capital...

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Welcome to Part Eight of our birthday audio entertainment in Tales for Our Time. After a week of digressions, our trio finally arrive in Germany, to begin digressing more Germanically...

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

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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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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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