One Year Ago
Saturday, 03 January 2009
This week's issue of The Economist has a heartrending vignette from one of the most ruthlessly capitalist industries on the planet:
In 2006 EMI, the world's fourth-biggest recorded-music company, invited some teenagers into its headquarters in London to talk to its top managers about their listening habits. At the end of...
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Topical Take
Friday, 02 January 2009
The Israelis are hitting back at Hamas and that means the word of the week is back. Here's what I had to say about it during their disastrous war with Hezbollah in 2006. This piece is from The Chicago Sun-Times:
"Disproportion" is the concept of the moment. Do you know how to...
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Seasons of Steyn
Wednesday, 31 December 2008
Some years ago I chanced to notice that People magazine ran a year-end "25 Most Intriguing People of the Year" list, and the striking feature about it was that they weren't in the least bit intriguing. Indeed, most of them could easily have made the 25 Least Intriguing People of...
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Five Years Ago
Saturday, 27 December 2008
When it comes to property crime, Britain seems an increasingly grim place to me - not so much because of the high levels of burglary, cellphone muggings, etc, but because of the woeful passivity the state demands of the citizenry in the face of outrageous provocations. Many Britons - including Ann Widung, cited...
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Ten Years Ago
Saturday, 13 December 2008
Now that we're facing another Democratic presidency, I've been rummaging down in the vault to remind myself how I covered the last one. Ten years ago, William Jefferson Clinton was en route to his joke of a Senate trial. This is how I covered the latest developments for The Sunday...
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Request of the Week
Wednesday, 10 December 2008
Dear Mark,
Now that Stephane Dion has been thrown under the Liberal bus, can you reprint your column about Michael Ignatieff from the last time he ran for party leader?
Thanks.
Graham Murphy
London
MARK SAYS: Okay, here it comes, my piece on the prince across the water and south of the...
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