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Small Print and Big Government

Steyn on the state's continued abuse of its vaccine victims...

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Steyn's Song of the Week

Non-Stop Number Ones: 2024 edition

A cavalcade of hits with Mark and his guests, including Andy Williams, Bananarama, Paul Simon,, Lulu, Men at Work, Artie Shaw and many more...

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Mark at the Movies

The Passion Of The Christ

The Gospel according to Mel...

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Shaidle at the Cinema

Pather Panchali

Upon the centenary of Satyajit Ray, we present our late friend Kathy Shaidle's take on his 1955 classic Pather Panchali...

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Steyn on Culture

The Prisoner of Windsor

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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The War on Free Speech

Once More Unto the Breach...

Ofcom rules against GB News (again)...

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Ave atque vale

Exit Music

Mark presents his tip of the hat to those from the music world we lost in 2023...

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The Bachman Beat

Tal Bachman: Cancelled by Popular Demand: My Final Rugby Installment

Tal Bachman wraps up his epic series...

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Laura's Links

America First?

Good day and welcome to this week's edition of Laura's Links. I know I talk a lot about how busy things have been over the week, and I hope that's not a bore. But I was having lunch with a friend today and going over my partial to-do list while we looked at her spectacular photographs from her recent trip to Tuscany. We flipped through a bunch of spectacular views, and I gave her updates about one of my ongoing "things". Then some magnificent cathedrals and statuary, and me updating her about one of the other big things. Flip, flip, Venice canal, and there's me, talking about one of the things with the kids. Then some food photos, some talk about the various Airbnbs and then I guess I took a breath and paused and she said "Laura, that's a ...

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Rick's Flicks

Down in the Depths: Destination Tokyo and the Submarine Movie

Rick McGinnis on Cary Grant and crew in Destination Tokyo...

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