In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark...
On the fourth of July weekend in 1947, a group of bikers rode into a small California town and, depending on who you believe, either had a great party or went on an orgy of destruction. This single incident – now famous as the Hollister Invasion or the Hollister Riot – created both the abiding myth of the outlaw biker and the renegade bike gang, and inspired the movie that provided the template for every other biker movie to follow. The occasion was the first major bike rally held by the American Motorcycle Association in California since before World War Two, and while attendance was expected to be high, nobody anticipated what would really happen. Hollister – about two hundred miles south of San Francisco and inland from Monterey and ...
Greetings one and all and welcome to the Passover 2024 edition of Laura's Links. After many hours of toil, the Cohen household was Kosher for Passover on Sunday last week, just in time to cook up a storm for the Seder that we hosted. The story of the Exodus was told, all the songs and psalms were sung. The festive meal was eaten and it was just tremendous to have a house full of light and (almost all of) the people that I love the most. Subsequent intermediary days of the holiday have been quite nice as well, although it has been a little nippy outside for my taste, given that it's almost May! GAH! I was offline for the actual holiday days: no phone, electronics etc. But once I fired up the computer, I was very interested to get caught up ...
Mark takes questions from Steyn Club members around the world...
Mark celebrates the centenary of Henry Mancini...
Mark answers questions on many topics, from a Belgian mayor's assault on free speech to jury selection in New York and Washington...
Our latest Tale for Our Time charges on: The Secret Adversary, Agatha Christie's first Tommy & Tuppence caper, set against the turbulent politics of the world after the Great War. Thank you for all your kind comments about this latest serialisation. Leo, a Mark Steyn Club member and my fellow Ontarian, says: So glad to hear you back at it with the Tales. The other half is especially excited about your choice of Dame Agatha, since she is a huge fan. You know, the kind with all the books, the anthologies, the videos, etc. We even took in The Mousetrap when visiting London pre Armageddon (covid). This site not only provides great insights and entertainment but also some comfort knowing there are others who are sane and sensible, and sharing ...
Episode Eight of our current Tale for Our Time: The Secret Adversary...
Part Seven of Steyn's latest Tale for Our Time: The Secret Adversary, with Agatha Christie venturing from country-house murders at St Mary Mead into the high stakes of post-Great War politics...
Part Six of our nightly audio entertainment - The Secret Adversary, an early Agatha Christie caper of Tommy & Tuppence attempting to scuttle coup-fomenting Bolshevists on the mean streets of London...
Part Five of a rather English adventure: an Agatha Christie caper set amidst Bolshevist plots on the streets of London - The Secret Adversary...
Part Four of our latest audio diversion: The Secret Adversary - Agatha Christie's 1922 caper set in a London seething with Bolshevists and labour unrest...
Welcome to Episode Three of Agatha Christie's tale of Bolshevist revolution looming on the streets of London...
Welcome to Part Two of The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie, our latest audio adventure in Tales for Our Time and set amidst Bolshevik intrigue on the streets of London...
Welcome to the sixty-second audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time - and our second venture into the work of the world's bestselling author, Agatha Christie...
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...
Tales for Our Time returns with a Steyn take on an H G Wells theme...