This week marked the conclusion of our winter Tale for Our Time: Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson. This enjoyable tale has been brilliantly narrated by Mark himself. If you haven't yet, we hope you will check it out. Access to Tales for Our Time is one of the many benefits of The Mark Steyn Club:

Alyssa, a renewing member from California observes:

I appreciate all of Mark's efforts from the diverse content he offers driven by his many interests and areas of expertise, to his prescient views and opinions on world events. I consider him something of a modern day prophet. I hope he will continue entertaining and informing us for many years to come. Thank you, Mark!

A new member, Stephen also from California says:

Mark, Have for decades appreciated the immense value of your work for the side of all that is good and holy, and in the process enjoyed your singular wit. So I guess it's past time I actually do something to support your torrent of mostly sane observation in a world gone mad—right?

Denise from Idaho has also renewed:

You are one of the few who speaks the truth. I greatly appreciate the way you wrap it in humor. I'm usually laughing and wincing at the same time. God bless you and keep you. We need your voice of reason and truth.

Thank you and a warm welcome to Denise, Stephen, Alyssa and all our new and returning members from Arizona, Bristol, British Columbia, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New South Wales, New York, North Carolina, Ontario, Pembrokeshire, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Wyoming and beyond...

Meanwhile, in case you missed it, here's how the rest of the week looked here at SteynOnline:

~ "Come Rain or Come Shine" by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer was celebrated in Steyn's Song of the Week.

~ Mark's Monday column included his observations on Europe, JD Vance's viral dressing-down in Munich, and more two-tier policing in the UK.

~ Mark also took time out to remember the loss - four years ago - of our beloved Rush Limbaugh.

~ Tuesday's column with the provocative title: Too Stupid Even for CBS News? was our most read piece of the week.

~ Clubland Q&A returned on Wednesday with Mark fielding questions from Mark Steyn Club members around the planet. Here's the Action Replay of the first half of the show.

~ On Thursday Laura's Links returned with her poignant observations and interesting links from around the world.

~ The devastating and shocking scenes of "Hamas on Parade" was taken up by Mark in his Friday column.

~ Mark Steyn On the Town returned to Serenade Radio on Saturday with replay available for club members here. On this week's edition we had a Commonwealth cavalcade of Non-Stop Number Ones - plus an exploration of Frank Sinatra, singer-songwriter; and a diverse range of artistes from Ruby Murray to Van Morrison, just to delineate the Ulster contingent. All leading up to the Big Finnish.

~ Later, Rick McGinnis reviewed "Twentieth Century" featuring John Barrymore and Carole Lombard.

A new week begins later today with Steyn's Song of the Week at Serenade Radio at 5:30pm UK time/ 12:30pm North American Eastern.

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To help keep us going during this unending battle for free speech, please consider a club membership for yourself or a friend. Please also check out our various free speech related merchandise and gift certificates available in the Steyn Store.

Oh, and don't forget that upcoming cruise in April. The ship is almost sold out so please act now if you would like to join Mark and his special guests in Spain and Portugal aboard the beautiful Celebrity Apex.

Welcome to our new and returning members this week from Bedfordshire, British Columbia, California, Cheshire, Colorado, East Sussex, France, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Merseyside, Michigan, Minnesota, Netherlands, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Spain, Tennessee, Texas, West Sussex, Wisconsin, and beyond...

New member Earl from South Carolina says:

Always willing to support those whose voice is used in support of freedom and moral clarity.

Another new member Michael from Virginia adds:

I can get your writings without being a member. I am joining to support you. You sir are the best.

And, Kerry from Queensland shared this upon her renewal:

I joined to support Mark over the Michael Mann court case, I stayed for the club!

Thank you, Earl, Michael and Kerry! The club does have its benefits including access to our highly popular Tales for Our Time series. Our most recent, Mark's brilliant narration of The Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson, is perfectly timed to the events of the day. A new episode airs this evening right here at SteynOnline.

Meanwhile, in case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked at SteynOnline:

~ If you missed last Sunday's airing of Steyn's Song of the Week at Serenade Radio, here is the replay of Mark's take on "The Folks who Live on the Hill" by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II,

~ Mark's Monday column - "The Racket in Plain Sight" - on USAid and more was our most read item this week.

~ In our second most read item of the week, it was another day, another child sacrifice for the diversity gods as examined by Mark.

~ On Wednesday Mark fielded questions from Mark Steyn Club members around the planet. This week's show focused mainly on the judicial coup presently underway in the United States. Plus, murderous medical staff in Australia to the US annexation of Canada.

~ Laura's Links was back on Thursday with her links from around the world plus some personal thoughts from Laura Rosen Cohen on the fragility of life and a call to pray for the hostages and the Peace of Jerusalem.

~ Friday was Make America Healthy Again! day at SteynOnline in celebration of the confirmation of our old friend of the show, Robert F Kennedy Jr, as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Godspeed Bobby!

~ Friday was also Happy Valensteyn's Day! If you missed it, do check out this timeless Mark Steyn Show special.

~ If you are a club member and you missed Mark's newish show yesterday on Serenade Radio, the replay of Mark Steyn On the Town is now available for stream/ download.

This week's edition of Mark Steyn on the Town goes Dutch and Kenyan - plus Linda Ronstadt, the Ames Brothers and Paul Whiteman with a cavalcade of Number Ones, and Sinatra sings the great iconic love songs of the last century.

~ Rick McGinnis returned on Saturday evening with his review of The Last Picture Show (1971) featuring Jeff Bridges and Cybill Shepherd.

A new week begins later today with Steyn's Song of the Week at Serenade Radio at 5:30pm UK time/ 12:30pm North American Eastern.

To help keep us going during this unending battle for free speech, please consider a club membership for yourself or a friend. Please also check out our various free speech related merchandise and gift certificates available in the Steyn Store.

Oh, and don't forget that upcoming cruise in April. The ship is almost sold out so please act now if you would like to join Mark and his special guests in Spain and Portugal aboard the beautiful Celebrity Apex.

Yesterday marked one year since six "climate change" believing District of Columbia jurors delivered their verdict that fake Nobel Prize recipient Michael E. Mann had not been damaged by Mark's post in 2012 re Mann's then employer Penn State.

Nonetheless, Mark was guilty of having been the longtime guest host for the late Rush Limbaugh...

In his closing statement, Mann's lawyer improperly urged the jury to set a punitive award to "serve as an example" to prevent "these attacks on Climate Scientists...". And, he compared "climate deniers" to so-called "election deniers" invoking the false narrative around January 6th.

Today those J6 political prisoners have been released (much against the wishes of certain dirty rotten corrupt DC judges). We continue to await Mark's release from an unconstitutional punitive award - and we continue to seek justice in the form of a sanction against Mann for presenting false evidence to the jury.

As renewing member June from Virginia urged:

Bravo, Mark, keep going!!

Thanks to June and all our new and returning members from Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Devon, East Sussex, Florida, London, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New South Wales, New York, Ohio, Ontario, Oregon, Powys, Queensland, Rhode Island, Surrey, Texas, Victoria, Virginia, Washington, West Yorkshire, and beyond - he will and we will (here at SteynOnline) as long as possible.

As Alison from Kent observed:

It is difficult to keep up with all the interesting material available on the site.

Indeed, it is. That's why we present this weekly round-up. So, in case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked at SteynOnline:

Mark's popular narration of The Lord of the World continues apace. Mark Steyn Club members are invited to log in and catch up here. A new episode will be available later today.

~ In Steyn's Song of the Week, Mark told the story of a one-hit writer whose song from a Princeton University revue went around the world and into orbit: "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)".

~ "The Future Showed Up" in Mark's Monday Notebook as he surveyed the scene on both sides of the Atlantic from extinct free speech in the UK to supposedly endangered Mexican beer in the US.

~ On Tuesday, Mark provided an update on the Koran-burner featured the day before and the Greater Manchester coppers' desire to upgrade his punishment to a death sentence. Plus Mark had word re USAid, the US Department of Education and our "Tranny of the Week".

~ Our Clubland Q&A returned on Wednesday with Mark fielding questions from Mark Steyn Club members live around the planet. This week's show focused mainly on Trump 47's continuing energy and the contrast with Europe. Mark also addressed the accumulating disclosures about the DC grifters on the take from USAid.

~ On Thursday, Laura Rosen Cohen declared, "It's simply glorious to see America roaring back with President Trump and his super duper, highly mucho mucho mucho improved staff and appointments, and the pace. Good gravy, the pace!!!" She speaks for many of us! In addition to reveling in all the winning, she shared her excellent round-up of links from around the world.

~ As we headed into the weekend, Mark reflected on the themes of his bestselling book America Alone through the lens of a recent interesting review. Plus, an update on Mann vs Steyn.

~ On this week's edition of Mark Steyn On the Town we played a song for the season, a song for Mata Hari, and songs for the protean concept album. Plus mambo meets calypso, and Marianne Faithfull - forsooth!

~ The Ghost and Mrs. Muir was a hit when it was released in 1947, the tenth-biggest grossing film of that year. Rick McGinnis reviewed it here.

A new week begins later today with Steyn's Song of the Week at Serenade Radio at 5:30pm UK time/ 12:30pm North American Eastern.

To help keep us going during this unending battle for free speech, please consider a club membership for yourself or a friend. Please also check out our various free speech related merchandise and gift certificates available in the Steyn Store.

Oh, and don't forget that upcoming cruise in April. The ship is almost sold out so please act now if you would like to join Mark and his special guests in Spain and Portugal aboard the beautiful Celebrity Apex.

Renewing member Russ from South Dakota writes:

Thank God for Mark!! Sane insight to the fall of civilisation along with some literary and musical entertainment along the way.

Juli from Minnesota, who is also returning says:

Mark is one of the most principled people I know. I appreciate his work and wish him nothing but the best.

Amanda from Texas has given herself a new club membership:

Happy birthday to me :-D

Happy Birthday Amanda and welcome to you, Russ, Juli and all our new and returning members this week from Alberta, British Columbia, California, Connecticut, Greater London, Greater Manchester, Hampshire, Indiana, Kansas, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Queensland, Texas, Thailand, Victoria, Virginia, Washington (the state not the district where justice goes to die), Wisconsin, and beyond.

If your membership has lapsed or you are thinking of joining for the first time, we invite you to sign up today!

Meanwhile, in case you missed it, here's how the rest of the week looked at SteynOnline:

Our latest Tales for Our Time - brilliantly narrated by Mark himself - continued this week. Robert Hugh Benson's Lord of the World - a novel published in 1907 - speculates about the state of the world a century hence - ie, right about now. Mark Steyn Club members are invited to log in and catch up here. A new episode airs this evening.

~ If you missed Mark's Song of the Week last week on Serenade Radio, here's a chance to catch up via SteynOnline. Mark tells the story of the world's most famous Neapolitan song from its origins in Napoli and/or the Ukraine to its multi-generational presence on the anglo pop charts. Plus, a special performance from our late friend Paul Sorvino.

~ On Monday, we took a look back at Holocaust Memorial Day of yore... and today.

~ Mark commented on Boris Johnson, Keir Starmer, "vaccines" and "grooming" in Tuesday's Notebook: appropriately titled "Aiding and Abetting".

~ On Wednesday, Mark returned to the Clubland Q&A microphone to field questions from Mark Steyn Club members around the world. This week's show focused mainly on the tremendous energy of the new administration, especially when contrasted with the bizarre priorities of Nigel Farage, busy this week denouncing the pardons of J6ers. Mark also addressed RFK Jr's plans to "Make America Healthy Again". Here's the action replay.

~ Laura Rosen Cohen reveled in "Trump 2.0" in this week's Laura's Links on Thursday.

~ Planes falling from the skies in DC - and now Philadelphia as well - was the topic of Mark's Friday and Saturday columns. Does nothing work anymore?

~ Mark Steyn On the Town returned on Saturday to Serenade Radio and later here at SteynOnline for those members who may have missed it. In this week's edition, Mark remembers Elaine Stritch, and plays a diverse range of vocalists from Luther Vandross and the Andrews Sisters to Neil Sedaka and Fiona Apple. Plus big hits from a small country and a Sinatra cavalcade of Rodgers & Hart.

~ Later Rick's Flicks reviewed classic film Young at Heart (1954) featuring Doris Day and Frank Sinatra.

A new week begins later today with Steyn's Song of the Week at Serenade Radio at 5:30pm Greenwich Mean Time/ 12:30pm North American Eastern Time.

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For more details on The Mark Steyn Cruise (only a few cabins left now!) please visit the website or contact our travel partner - The Cruise & Vacation Authority - at 1-844-564-6317 or [email protected].

With Mark and his special guests, we will set sail from Barcelona on April 6th on Celebrity Apex. We look forward to seeing you on board!

Our friend Kathy Gyngell at The Conservative Woman sums up the last week perfectly:

While one side of the Ocean represented hope, the other side, here, revealed a horror that not even the worst of Trump derangement syndrome could deflect from...

A few years back, my local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) invited me to join them. Alas, I was too busy with court cases (still am). And, it seems even DAR has now been lost. (whilst altered birth certificates are not accepted for adoptees, they are accepted for those who would prefer to identify as a DAR than a SAR...).

This week while I toggled between inauguration events, tweet updates on the Southport killer case and the live-stream of the "UK Covid-19 Inquiry"/ Cover-Up, I was filled with gratitude that my ancestors came here to America and fought for the rights we are now reasserting with a vengeance - thanks to President Trump and his team.

There are many freedom-lovers among our ranks in The Mark Steyn Club and we are thrilled to welcome our new and returning members this week from Alberta, Australian Capital Territory, British Columbia, California, Cambridgeshire, Dorset, Essex, Florida, Illinois, Ireland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Nottinghamshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Suffolk, Tennessee, Texas, Queensland, Virginia and beyond...

Fraser, a new member from Suffolk (UK), writes:

I want to help support the costs of Steyn's free speech legal battles. Not only that, in my book, he is the key journalist all round of my generation.

Returning member Maurice from Ontario says:

Thanks Mark, Melissa, and all involved for the great and important work you continue to do. Thank you! :)

Cathy from Indiana has also renewed:

Not sure which part of the Club I like best! I enjoy the Q&A, the emails, the Tales for our Time, and the Poetry. Thank you for talking about the important things.

Speaking of Tales for Our Time, Mark has hit it out of the park again this week with his timely and spellbinding narration of the Lord of the World, Robert Hugh Benson's speculative fiction of 1907 about how our world might be a century hence - ie, right now. A new episode airs here at SteynOnline tonight.

Meanwhile, in case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark...

~ Steyn's Song of the Week - on "Waltzing Matilda" is an adaptation from Mark's book - A Song For The Season.

~ "The peaceful transfer of power" finally arrived in "The Don's Early Light" on Monday.

~ Mark's Tuesday Notebook picked out some highlights from Inauguration Day.

~ On Wednesday, Mark returned to the Clubland Q&A microphone fielding questions from Mark Steyn Club members around the planet. This week's show focused mainly on the priorities of the forty-seventh president - and breaking news of the Diversity Stabbing of the Day in Germany. Which, as Mark noted, are both really the same story: immigration, and the right to talk honestly about it. In case you missed it, here's the action replay.

~ In Laura's Links, Laura Rosen Cohen reveled in President Trump's return south of the border.

~ At the start of the weekend Steyn's take on this week's diversity stabbings was our most read piece of the week.

~ On Saturday Mark Steyn On the Town celebrated Australia Day with songs from the Lucky Country, a cavalcade of Antipodean Number Ones, and a Down Under Sinatra Sextet.

~ Finally, Rick's Flicks took a look back at Jason Reitman's "Up in the Air" from 2009.

A new week begins later today with Steyn's Song of the Week at Serenade Radio at 5:30pm GMT/ 12:30pm ET.

If you are not yet a member of The Mark Steyn Club, we invite you to join today. The water's fine! And, speaking of water, it is also a great time to sign up for The Mark Steyn Cruise. We set sail in April with delightful stops in Spain and Portugal. We hope to see you on board!

This week marked the return of our popular Tales for Our Time series, brilliantly narrated by Mark himself. It is our first foray into the work of Robert Hugh Benson. Lord of the World is a far-sighted novel of 1907 looking ahead to the world of the early twenty-first century....

As Mark notes in his introduction, "for a chap writing in 1907, Mr Benson gets a lot of things right - including the rise of the east, the degeneration of western universities, the coming of a European parliament. On the other hand, he's a little ahead of the game on the US absorption of Canada..."

Here are Parts One and Two. Tune in for a new episode tonight.

Steyn's Sunday Poem - also returned this week with a timely look back at Mark's reading of "Greenland".

Tales for Our Time and Steyn's Sunday Poem are one of many benefits for Mark Steyn Club members. We are grateful to our new and returning members this week from California, Florida, Georgia, Israel, Kansas, London, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, New South Wales, New York, North Carolina, Queensland, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Wisconsin and beyond. If you are not yet a member, or your membership has lapsed, we invite you to join today.

Meanwhile, in case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked at SteynOnline:

~ In this week's edition of Steyn's Song of the Week, Mark celebrated John Barry, 007 composer and the man who invented "spy music".

~ Mark's Monday's column - our most read piece of the week - was devoted to the proliferation of Paedos in a once great nation.

~ In Tuesday's Notebook, Mark pondered the proposal for an Imam at the Inaugural.

~ Clubland Q&A returned on Wednesday with Mark fielding questions from Mark Steyn Club members live around the planet. Here is the Action Replay

~ This week's Laura's Links included Laura Rosen Cohen's take on the ceasefire deal.

~ On Friday, Mark stated what is becoming increasingly obvious with regard to UK government cover-up from the vaccines to the Pakistani Muslim rape gangs - "The Baronesses Won't Save You."

~ Mark Steyn On the Town was back on Serenade Radio on Saturday (replay available to club members here) with highlights from The Jacques Brel Songbook and The Mrs O'Leary Songbook.

~ "The Best of Everything", a melodrama about working women in the big city, was the subject of this week's Rick's Flicks.

A new week begins later today with Steyn's Song of the Week at Serenade Radio at 5:30pm Greenwich Mean Time/ 12:30pm North American Eastern Time.

This week we welcomed new and renewing members from Arizona, Belgium, British Columbia, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Middlesex, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Queensland, Staffordshire, Sussex, Victoria, Virginia, Wiltshire, Wisconsin, Yorkshire and beyond...

Lynn from Washington state joining the first time writes:

Mark Steyn is an international treasure.

From Kent, renewing member Edward encourages:

Keep up the shining example of courage and integrity...

New member Julie from Manchester (UK, not the largest city in New Hampshire) says:

I have great respect for Mark Steyn's ability as a journalist and commentator. Thank you Mr. Steyn.

Thank you, Julie, Edward and Lynn!

If you are not yet a member of The Mark Steyn Club, we invite you to join today. The water's fine! And, speaking of water, it is also a great time to sign up for The Mark Steyn Cruise. We set sail in April with delightful stops in Spain and Portugal. We hope to see you on board!

Meanwhile, in case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked at SteynOnline...

~ Steyn's Song of the Week - "Love Me Tender" - was in honor of Elvis Presley who would have turned ninety years old this past week.

~ In our most read piece of the week, Mark shared his thoughts on Elon Musk's recent take on Nigel Farage aka "The Gatekeeper".

~ Tuesday marked the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attack at the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

~ Later we reported on a little movement in the Mann vs Steyn case. The court ruled that Michael E. Mann would finally be made to have some skin in the game - by having to pay $530k to Mark's co-defendant National Review. However, by the end of the week, Mann told the appeals court he would be appealing that too....

~ Midweek, Mark returned to the Clubland Q&A microphone fielding questions from Mark Steyn Club members around the world. This week's show focused on a variety of topics from England's gang-rape epidemic to the alleged resignation of Justin Trudeau.

~ It was "Morning in Canada" on Thursday as Laura Rosen Cohen mulled Trudeau's "resignation" in addition to her usual round-up of links from around the world including moments of human grace.

~ Mark's weekend notebook surveyed the state of the wildfires in California and the apparent complete breakdown in California, in addition to the continued abandonment of flood victims in North Carolina.

~ On Saturday, Mark reflected on Paedos and Policemen in England.

~ Later, in Mark Steyn on the Town on Serenade Radio, Mark celebrated a Broadway legend, an Italian composer and some Caribbean limbo. Plus: when Frank met Elvis! Replay available for club members here.

~ Finally, Rick McGinnis reviewed Myrna Loy and Irene Dunne in "Thirteen Women". He also remembered our dear friend Kathy Shaidle - who died four years ago this past week. We all miss her in our lives and reading her here at SteynOnline.

A new week begins later today with Steyn's Song of the Week at Serenade Radio at 12:30pm North American Eastern Time/ 5:30pm GMT.

It's a new year at SteynOnline and we are excited to start it along with our new and returning members...

John from Texas writes:

Thank you for another year of great programming! I enjoy On the Town, Live Q & A, Tales for Our Time as well as Mark's commentary on events as they unfold. Looking forward to 2025 with the MSC...

Another renewing member, Matthew from East Sussex, sums it up:

An excellent mélange of history, culture, politics, music and stories, well worth a membership fee. Keep up the fight.

Abraham from London explains why they have decided to join now:

...In appreciation for the many essential insights and plain facts you have provided me for years, and for the sheer enjoyment of your commentary, humour and, most importantly, your humanity, decency & unwavering commitments...

Welcome to John, Matthew, Abraham and all our new and renewing members this week from Belgium, Cheshire, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, London, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, North Yorkshire, New Zealand, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Washington (the state, not the diseased capital city where justice goes to die) West Dunbartonshire, Wisconsin and beyond...

If your membership has lapsed or you would like to sign up, we invite you to join today.

Meanwhile, in case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked at SteynOnline...

~ For our last Sunday song selection of 2024, we presented a special video edition dedicated to a great friend of The Mark Steyn Show, the late Russell Malone, who died in August far too young, from a heart attack while on tour in Tokyo.

In it, Mark asks the jackpot question in advance, "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?"

~ In Mark's Monday Notebook, our own undocumented anchorman weighed in on the "Indian Wars" that erupted over Christmas in a debate over H1B visas and immigration generally - legal or otherwise.

~ On New Year's Eve, we offered a sampler from our Café Imperial, where the patrons favour songs from our great Commonwealth family. This Café Imperial Hogmanay Special is a cavalcade of delights from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Samoa, and even Scotland.

Later, Mark shared his Serenade Radio edition of Steyn's Song of the Week: a tribute to Auld Lang Syne.

~ Midweek Mark hosted a New Year's Day edition of Clubland Q&A - where he fielded questions from Mark Steyn Club members around the world.

This week's show focused mainly on the terrible breaking news out of New Orleans - of fifteen dead Americans mown down by a man with an Isis flag in his truck and betrayed by a treasonous political class.

~ Laura's Links returned on Thursday with her round-up of links from around the world that concludes with some heartwarming moments of human grace.

~ Near the end of the week - as questions re England's epidemic of child gang-rape by Pakistani men bubbled to the surface on X (aka twitter) after Elon Musk* commented upon it - we republished Mark's in-depth video special from 2023 which includes interviews with victims Samantha Smith and Sammy Woodhouse as well as whistleblowers Brian Hobin and Maggie Oliver. On X, it has already had over half a million views.

* UPDATE from Elon:

The Reform Party needs a new leader. Farage doesn't have what it takes.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 5, 2025

~ This week's Mark Steyn on the Town aired on Serenade Radio on Saturday and is now available for club members to download here. In this first 2025 edition of Mark Steyn on the Town, Mark does a bit of first-footnoting with Bobby Darin and Buddy Greco, takes in the concession stands at the Zanzibar High Court, and tucks into his Galette des Rois. Plus there is a somewhat singular Sinatra Sextet.

~ On Saturday evening, Rick McGinnis observed:

The word fascist gets thrown around a lot now, almost inevitably without context or understanding, and mostly as a shorthand to tar an object of hatred and signal that the utterer is certain that the world is heading for a dark place, from which only their worldview offers salvation.

It would seem like a good time to stop and try to understand one of the only political movements to explicitly call itself fascist and remind ourselves what it really means...

His review of "The Conformist" (1970) is available for your enjoyment here.

A new week begins later today at Serenade Radio with Steyn's Song of the Week at 12:30pm North American Eastern Time/ 5:30pm Greenwich Mean Time.

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Did you forget someone on your Christmas list? If so, may we humbly suggest some great options that may be delivered to the Steyn fan among your loved ones in the work of moments:

* The Mark Steyn Club Gift Membership - set to deliver to your specifications and date via email or mail. (As a member of The Mark Steyn Club, your special discounted price for gift memberships is $150.)

* The Steyn Store Gift Certificate - Gift certificates start as low as $25.00 for the casual uncommitted dilletante and go up from there, for the hardcore reader who's got to have everything. They never expire, so the recipient can buy something now or wait for the latest addition to Mark's oeuvre to be published.

And, if you don't want to give the gift certificate to some ingrate nephew or surly sibling, you can always give it to yourself for a rainy day!

* The Mark Steyn 2025 Cruise - 7 nights - Spain and Portugal in April. This is also an excellent gift for yourself!

Check out all our Christmas offerings, including downloads of Mark's Christmas albums - at the Steyn Store. Enjoy the Season!

Our Boxing Day Blow-Out Sale is still in progress over at the Steyn Store. Please take advantage of these great deals, including $10 off various style shirts ($15 off for club members!!), up until midnight on New Year's Eve or while supplies last -whichever comes first.

It's also a great time to redeem that gift certificate you may have received for Christmas.

Meanwhile...

Renewing member Howard from Northamptonshire writes:

...really appreciate all Mark's output helping to make sense of the forces at play, and conveyed with humour to boot

Joshua, a new member from Illinois, hearkens back to the days on Rush:

Long time listener, first time caller.

From Down Under, another new member - Peter in Victoria notes:

longtime tailgater; about time I helped Mark tangibly

Renewing member Matthew from Western Australia simply adds:

Enjoying The Club

Finally, another returning member Judy from California:

Happy, Healthy (!) and Prosperous New Year to you, dear Mark

And, to you Judy! A warm welcome and wishes for a Happy New Year to all our new and returning members from British Columbia, California, Devon, Illinois, Italy, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Yorkshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin and beyond...

Members enjoy access to Mark's brilliant narrations of classic fiction - Tales for Our Time in addition to his own stories, including the Christmas tale "Plum Duff" - brought back to members in two parts this past week. (Part One and Part Two are here.)

Members may also access downloads of Mark's newish show on Serenade Radio - Mark Steyn on the Town. In this week's pre-Hogmanay edition, Mark bid farewell to the old year - a very old year, not 2024 but 1924. He also expanded upon Sinatra's very good years, and observed the stroke of midnight with some Danubian dances.

If your membership has lapsed or you would like to sign up, we invite you to join today.

In addition to Tales for Our Time and Mark Steyn on the Town, it was a very busy week at SteynOnline with various Christmas observances:

~ Don Black, Tim Rice and Dana joined Mark to ponder the British Christmas song...in Steyn's Song of the Week.

~ The lovely actress Siân Phillips narrated a special video Yuletide Tale for our Time: A Child's Christmas in Wales.

~ On Christmas Eve, Mark welcomed listeners to our annual presentation of ancient scripture and brand new versions of favourite carols, from various members of the Steyn Show musical family drawn from the worlds of folk, jazz, rock, opera plus a bevy of Top Five pop stars from across the last half-century: Christmas Eve Lessons and Carols.

~ On Christmas Day with Mark and Friends, we rounded up all things Christmas for your viewing and listening pleasure.

Also...

~ Mark's most read piece of the week: The Depravity of Diversity reflected on the shocking immolation of an innocent woman on the New York Subway allegedly at the hands of someone who should not have even been in the country.

~ In another Diversity Deathwatch Update, Mark analyzed the analyst involved in the most recent Christmas market massacre in Germany.

~ Laura Rosen Cohen delivered Christmas/Chanukah/Boxing Day Links from around the world.

~ Mark's St Stephen's Day Special offered a sampler from our Café Continental, where the patrons like their music with a soupçon of European sophistication.

~ On Friday, Mark reflected on something he said twenty years ago re the famous Boxing Day tsunami, which swept a quarter-of-a-million people to their death.

~ And, on Saturday, Rick McGinnis returned with his review of the film adaptation of The Riddle of the Sands.

(if you prefer the book - as many do - members may enjoy Mark's narration of it here.)

A new week begins later today with Steyn's Song of the Week at Serenade Radio at 5:30pm GMT/ 12:30pm North American Eastern Time.

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Did you forget someone on your Christmas list? If so, may we humbly suggest some great options that may be delivered to the Steyn fan among your loved ones in the work of moments:

* The Mark Steyn Club Gift Membership - set to deliver to your specifications and date via email or mail. (As a member of The Mark Steyn Club, your special discounted price for gift memberships is $150.)

* The Steyn Store Gift Certificate - Gift certificates start as low as $25.00 for the casual uncommitted dilletante and go up from there, for the hardcore reader who's got to have everything. They never expire, so the recipient can buy something now or wait for the latest addition to Mark's oeuvre to be published.

And, if you don't want to give the gift certificate to some ingrate nephew or surly sibling, you can always give it to yourself for a rainy day!

* The Mark Steyn 2025 Cruise - 7 nights - Spain and Portugal in April. This is also an excellent gift for yourself!

Check out all our Christmas offerings, including downloads of Mark's Christmas albums - at the Steyn Store. Enjoy the Season!

Among the highlights this coming week, on Tuesday please make a date for what has become a SteynOnline tradition: Mark's annual presentation of Christmas Eve Lessons and Carols.

As always, he'll be joined by singers and musicians from the worlds of folk, jazz, rock and opera plus a bevy of Top Five pop stars from across half-a-century, all with brand new versions of your favourite Christmas music.

Speaking of Christmas music...

~ Steyn's Song of the Week highlighted a song celebrating its bicentennial this Christmas: O Tannenbaum by Ernst Anschütz.

~ On the Christmas edition of Mark Steyn on the Town on Serenade Radio, Mark presented a special edition of our Sinatra Sextet: a full hour of Festive Frank, with friends and family from Nancy Sinatra and Frank Jr to Grace Kelly and Bing Crosby, plus the only Bond villain to sing a song composed by Frank. This new episode is available for club members to download here.

Speaking of club members...

Colleen from San Diego writes:

Celebrating the winter solstice and a return of brighter sunshine in the days ahead, from a devoted fan in the Northern Hemisphere. Glad to return as a subscribing member!

Another returning member Patty from New York:

Many thanks for all you do to save Western Civ.

New Member Mark from Hampshire (UK) says of Mark:

An extraordinary man who dares to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. But w/o fear nor favour...

Also new to the club, Michael from British Columbia confesses:

Have read your stuff for years now. Time to pay up.

Welcome to Colleen, Mark, Michael, Patty and all our new and returning members this week from Alabama, Alaska, Alberta, Berkshire, California, East Sussex, Florida, France, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Liverpool, London, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Queensland, South Carolina, South Yorkshire, Tennessee, Victoria, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and beyond.

If you are not yet a member or your membership has lapsed, we invite you to join today.

Meanwhile, in case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked at SteynOnline...

~ The media's curious priorities was the subject of Mark's Monday column.

~ On Tuesday, Mark pondered what happens when your government lies to you...

~ Mark returned to the live Clubland Q&A microphone on Wednesday fielding questions from club members around the world. Listen here for the action replay of this week's show which ran the gamut from US health care to South Korean fertility via Klaus Schwab penetrating your cabinet.

~ On Thursday Laura's Links was back with her collection of links from around the world. She pondered a "Canada on the Cusp".

~ Mark's topical take on Friday revisited a column from twenty years ago which pondered another North American realignment.

~ Early Saturday, Mark responded to the latest Christmas Market attack: When Christmas is a Target.

~ Later Rick McGinnis reviewed the classic film: "Christmas in Connecticut".

~ Finally, last night brought the conclusion of our Christmas Tales for Our Time - Mystery in White by Jefferson Farjeon - brilliantly narrated by Mark himself. All episodes are available to club members to binge-listen here.

A new week begins later today with a seasonal Steyn's Song of the Week at Serenade Radio at 12:30pm North American Eastern Time/ 5:30pm Greenwich Mean Time.

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Thinking of the perfect last-minute Christmas gift for the Steyn fan amongst your loved ones? May we humbly suggest:

* The Mark Steyn Club Gift Membership - set to deliver to your specifications and date via email or mail. (As a member of The Mark Steyn Club, your special discounted price for gift memberships is $150.)

* The Steyn Store Gift Certificate - Gift certificates start as low as $25.00 for the casual uncommitted dilletante and go up from there, for the hardcore reader who's got to have everything. They never expire, so the recipient can buy something now or wait for the latest addition to Mark's oeuvre to be published.

And, if you don't want to give the gift certificate to some ingrate nephew or surly sibling, you can always give it to yourself for a rainy day!

* The Mark Steyn 2025 Cruise - 7 nights - Spain and Portugal in April. This is also an excellent gift for yourself!

Check out all our Christmas offerings, including downloads of Mark's Christmas albums - at the Steyn Store. Enjoy the Season!