Hello again and welcome to this week's batch of Laura's Links. I didn't think last week that I would be writing in the past tense about the "Twelve Day War", about America having bombed Iranian nuclear sites and a fragile ceasefire holding between Israel and Iran. I've also been hearing about direct negotiations between Israel and Syria and Lebanon, and saw that Steve Witkoff has been hinting about possible news coming up with respect to the Abraham Accords and still praying for a future Cyrus Accord. It's an insane amount of information and almost too much to conceptualize. I'm still actively mentally processing the events of the past week, but I'm still pretty much in Donald Rumsfeld territory. I'm feeling some knowns and lots of known ...

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Mark takes questions from Steyn Club members around the planet...

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Programming note: Tomorrow, Wednesday, I hope to be back behind the microphone taking questions from Mark Steyn Club members around the world at 3pm North American Eastern (8pm British Summer Time) for our latest Clubland Q&A. Hope you can swing by. ~Well, another twenty-four hours in the nuclear news cycle, and the pendulum has swung and hit John Bolton in the moustache. President Trump has decreed that there will be "no further HATE" and proclaimed "Peace and Harmony in the Region". He then issued the terms of a ceasefire for what he announced would henceforth be known as "the Twelve-Day War". The Iranian Foreign Minister, something of a cool customer, initially responded by saying their government had yet to receive any such ceasefire ...

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As the dust settles in the smoking crater where that big Iranian mountain used to be, all the smart guys are ready to move on to the next phase...

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In the early hours of Sunday morning (Iran time), six B-2 bombers flew from the United States and dropped a dozen bunker-busters on the Islamic Republic's nuclear facilities...

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Rick McGinnis on a Powell & Pressburger film that is strangely timely...

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From the 2025 Steyn Cruise, Mark and Dan Wootton together again for the first time since the GB News days...

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Laura Rosen Cohen rounds up the Internet...

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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. This week's show covered a range of topics from the apparently widening war to English grooming gangs to multi-trillion-dollar debt...

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There is nothing in the Pentagon's performance these last eighty years to suggest it is remotely capable of winning a war with Iran...

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Steyn and Simberg respond to Mann's demand that he and his lying lawyers should not have to pay sanctions...

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In today's segment Mark catches up with Steyn Show favourites Jules Serkin and Naomi Wolf. Jules, a BBC Radio presenter, fell victim to the AstraZeneca vaccine. Yet, even when one of their own suffered, members of her profession stayed silent. Naomi Wolf, at great personal cost, unveiled disturbing information re the effects of the vaccine...

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Steyn talks to Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer about Irish anti-Semitism...

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As part of The Mark Steyn Club's eighth-anniversary observances, welcome to the third brand new video edition of The Mark Steyn Show. Today's episode was filmed live on the Mark Steyn Iberian Cruise, and discusses the differences between Trump 45 and Trump 47...

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Who owes one million dollars now?

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A GB News reunion on the latest Mark Steyn Show Dan Wootton, Laurence Fox and Naomi Wolf...

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

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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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Mark tells the story of Irving Berlin's great American anthem...

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On this week's episode of Mark Steyn on the Town, we wish a happy birthday to a legendary British lyricist, mark the solstice with summer and winter songs from the northern and summer hemispheres, celebrate the perfect match of singer and songwriting team, and enjoy a cavalcade of Non-Stop Number Ones down the decades. To listen to the programme, simply click here and log-in. ~Thank you for your kind comments about last week's edition. Suzy says: Every week I marvel at Mark Steyn's vast knowledge of nostalgic songs and his anecdotes of all the top composers, lyricists and singers he has personally known that he shares with us. (Not least how he finds the time to do it!) A wonderful insight into many popular songs from Serenade's playlist. ...

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Programming note: Mark will be back in audio on Friday with the latest entry to our series of audio adventures, Tales for Our Time. Happy Father's Day to you and yours. We have some Father's Day moments from The Mark Steyn Show here, and we close out the day with a song for those about to qualify for the category. I miss my dad more and more as the years go by. This Song for the Season is one he used to like singing - mostly the "My boy Bill" bit, because it all gets a little more complicated after that. It's more than a song, but a dramatic soliloquy on imminent fatherhood. This essay is adapted from my book A Song for the Season: I wonder what he'll think of meI guess he'll call meThe old manI guess he'll think I can lickEv'ry other ...

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Happy Father's Day to all our listeners around the world. This special audio edition of The Mark Steyn Show presents a few Father's Day moments down the years from the various iterations of our show, featuring poems, songs and reminiscences on the theme, by everybody from Dame Vera Lynn to a neighbour of Mark's in New Hampshire. Click above to listen. The Mark Steyn Show is a special production of The Mark Steyn Club. If you prefer to read your radio shows, Steyn Club members can find the transcripts here. For those members interested in using their personal podcast players to listen to the Steyn Show or our series of audio adventures Tales for our Time, we have an RSS feed here (and instructions here). ...

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On this week's episode of Mark Steyn on the Town, we remember a fine songwriter, celebrate the centennial of a great American standard, and enjoy the windy Sinatra. To listen to the programme, simply click here and log-in. ~Thank you for your kind comments about last week's edition. From Fran, a First Weekend Founding Member of The Mark Steyn Club who's just re-upped for a ninth year: This is an out of the park fantastic show, Mark. You're the best. I'm going to have a great and wonderful summer with months of sizzling heat listening to this over and over, even if the temps don't soar into the three digits. Michael Smith, a Maryland Steyn Clubber, says: Thank you Mark for this fine episode and a very happy birthday Nancy Sinatra! Lucky ...

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Programming note: Tomorrow, Saturday, please join me for another edition of my Serenade Radio weekend music show, Mark Steyn on the Town. The fun starts at 5pm British Summer Time - which is 6pm in Western Europe and 12 noon North American Eastern. You can listen from almost anywhere on the planet by clicking the button at top right here. ~Ahead of that, welcome to the seventy-first audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time. As we begin our ninth season, we've built a spectacular archive that runs the gamut from A to Z ...well, not quite, but certainly A to W - Jane Austen to P G Wodehouse. The newest addition to our collection is a short story from 1948 written by Fredric Brown (whom I discuss in my introduction) and with a ...

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Mark tells the story of a song that's a blast of pure joy, but emerged from an unlikely corner of history...

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On this week's episode of Mark Steyn On the Town, we celebrate Georges Bizet and Nancy Sinatra. Plus: a cavalcade of Non-Stop Number Ones, and a rare touch of reggae...

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A rerun of a Tale for Our Time first aired almost a decade ago: Belling the Cat by Rudyard Kipling...

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Welcome to the conclusion of our eighth-birthday Tale for Our Time: Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K Jerome...

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Welcome to the seventieth audio entertainment 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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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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