Request of the Week
Wednesday, 04 November 2009
Dear Mark,
The Lisbon Treaty looks like a done deal. As we say goodbye to national sovereignty in Europe, it might be a good time to reprint one of your columns from their first attempt to force this on us, as a "European Constitution".
Gillian Andrews
MARK SAYS: I wrote a...
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Ten Years Ago
Saturday, 31 October 2009
One of the things I enjoyed about my Sunday Telegraph days was the way the editor, Dominic Lawson, used to come up with subjects I wouldn't ordinarily have written about. This is a fairly typical example, on a trend that's only accelerated in the last decade:
It was a staple of 1960s sci-fi:...
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Seasons of Steyn
Friday, 30 October 2009
A Halloween Song for the Season
by Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh
This essay is from Mark's book A Song For The Season:
I’ve always loved songs that use magic as an image of romantic seduction and intoxication. Cole Porter got in on it early in “You Do Something To Me”...
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One Year Ago
Saturday, 24 October 2009
Well, I don't claim to be a prognosticatory genius, but I think this first column after the 2008 election holds up better than whatever David Brooks and Christopher Buckley were writing that week:
"Give me liberty or give me death!"
"Live free or die!"
What's that? Oh, don't mind me....
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Topical Take
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
Three years ago, October 2006, America Alone: The End Of The World As We Know It was officially published in the US and Canada, and I spent most of that first week from 5am onwards sitting in an hotel room in New York doing back-to-back radio interviews punctuated by occasional sallies forth into...
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Five Years Ago
Saturday, 17 October 2009
It doesn't seem like half a decade since the Bush/Kerry showdown in Campaign 2004. I always used to get a little restless toward the end of long US election campaigns, and my traditional method of alleviating the boredom was to predict the outcome and then insist that, if I proved to...
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