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Beyond The Mark Steyn Show:
Columns, poems, tales, music, movies and more from Mark and friends

Mark's Week in Review

A Se'nnight of Steyn: October 13-19

In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark...

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Rick's Flicks

Bug in Your Ear: Hammer Films and Quatermass and the Pit

Rick McGinnis on a Quatermass classic...

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Politics & Current Affairs

Kamala Lightens Up

Is it me or is Kamala's personality becoming even more appealing as she enters the final stretch?

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Laura's Links

The New Masculinity

Laura Rosen Cohen rounds up the Internet

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The Mark Steyn Audio Show

Voyage of the Damed

Steyn answers your questions on November's Margin of Steal, the cosiness of the Prince of Wales and Dame Jacinda Ardern, and sundry topics in between...

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Clubland Q&A

Live Around the Planet: Wednesday October 16th

Steyn fields questions from listeners around the planet...

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Topical Take

The Last Copier in the Woods Arrives Sooner than Expected

The fourth anniversary of Hunter Biden's "Russian" laptop...

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Politics & Current Affairs

What's Going On? (Cont.)

Strange developments in the court eunuchs' coverage of Kamala...

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Politics & Current Affairs

Kamala's Belt & No Road Initiative

A hurricane? Says FEMA: Hey, what's the rush?

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One Year Ago

An Act of War, One Year On

One year after a catastrophic Israeli "intelligence failure", and a grim day of Hamas atrocities...

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Topical Take

Droning Clichés in a Burning Theatre

The line that makes Steyn want to burn down the theatre himself...

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Politics & Current Affairs

The "Far Right" Inches Nearer

A curious evolution in European "democracy"...

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Politics & Current Affairs

"Underwater" in North Carolina ...and Michigan

How many American states have to be underwater before it makes the news?

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On the Town

Danke schön, Caterina

Mark remembers the multi-talented Caterina Valente, and passes on one of the greatest anecdotes he has ever been told...

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The Mark Steyn Show

The Politicization of American Justice

A rare stage appearance by Steyn, as he returns to America's diseased and depraved capital city for address a Hillsdale College audience on Post-Constitution Day...

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Politics & Current Affairs

Democracy Dies In ...Secret Service Headquarters

In America's one-party state the Leader of the Opposition is now the prisoner of his "security detail"...

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Politics & Current Affairs

The Mounting Toll

Steyn on the continuing insult and injury to the vaccine victims...

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Politics & Current Affairs

Incuriouser and Incuriouser

Yawn. Didn't we do this story last month?

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Politics & Current Affairs

Drifting to Armageddon

The gradual escalation of a one-sided proxy war...

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Steyn's Song of the Week

Avalon with Carol Welsman and Russell Malone

Mark remembers a dear friend of the Steyn Show musical family, the guitarist Russell Malone...

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The Mark Steyn Show

RFK Jr Endorses Trump

On the day a Kennedy breaks with his party, Mark's full-length interview with RFK Jr...

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Politics & Current Affairs

As Steyn Goes, So Goes the Deep State?

Is the CIA getting its plot twists from The Prisoner of Windsor?

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Ave atque vale

Farewell to a Friend

Mark remembers his beloved and inspirational cat Marvin...

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Mann vs Steyn

Football and Hockey

The Corner post that launched a lawsuit...

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Steyn's Song of the Week

Lullaby of Broadway

If you enjoy Steyn's Song of the Week at SteynOnline and on Serenade Radio, please note that there will be a live stage edition during the 2025 Mark Steyn Cruise - along with many other favourite features from SteynOnline and The Mark Steyn Show. More details here. ~For those who missed today's Serenade Radio edition of our Song of the Week, here's a chance to catch up. It's the tale of a composer who wrote three Oscar-winners and many more nominees - yet always wanted to be back in New York working on a Broadway show: Mark celebrates Harry Warren, with some help from (among many others) Bing and Beyoncé. Click above to listen. Anita, the wife of Steyn's longtime producer Brian Savin, said she thought this was one of the best Song of the ...

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On the Town

When Jimmy Met Clarence

On this week's edition of Mark Steyn on the Town, we explore some byways of Bond. James Bond, that is. David Arnold (007's composer from Tomorrow Never Dies to Quantum of Solace) and Don Black (who's written more 007 lyrics than anybody else) chip in with a few thoughts, and, musically, we hear from Count Basie, Dusty Springfield, Herb Alpert and more. Plus: a 1908 spelling bee, and a presidential campaign song. To listen to the programme, simply click here and log-in. ~Last week's show attracted a lot of comment. Fraser writes: What with the shortening days, thank God for the antidote of Steyn's luminescent show. What a marvel of Kristofferson celebration, the strongest Sinatra Sextet yet, a Cypriot-North London-Café Imperial ...

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Steyn's Song of the Week

Lilac Wine

If you missed today's Song of the Week on Serenade Radio, here's a chance to hear it in a SteynOnline premiere broadcast. Mark explores an eerie revue number by a one-hit songwriter that somehow managed to become a favourite of four generations of female vocalists from Eartha Kitt to Miley Cyrus. Joining Steyn to discuss the song is the multitalented Mike Batt, who aside from all his work with the Wombles, Art Garfunkel et al also managed to produce the biggest-selling version of the number - with an orchestral ornamentation that has since become part of the song. Click above to listen. ~Thank you for your kind responses to this series. Of last week's presentation of "The Way You Look Tonight", Jackie, a Pennsylvania member of The Mark ...

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On the Town

Fresh!

On this week's edition of Mark Steyn on the Town, we have hit songs with non-singing parts - plus pigtails, freckles, Cypriots, and eminent composers from Cole Porter to George Michael. Also: Frank Sinatra says his prayers. To listen to the programme, simply click here and log-in. Last week's show attracted a lot of comment. Linda, a Kansas member of The Mark Steyn Club, says: I absolutely loved today's On the Town ~ so entertaining and informative. The music made me smile, and the bits and bobs, like the Bardot piece, were delightful. Thanks again, Mark, for the joy of this program and your sharing your vast knowledge of the music world. Nancy writes: Every Saturday I wonder how Mark can top each musical offering and then he pulls off a ...

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A Clubman's Notes

Nonplussed and Terrified

Welcome back to our latest Tale for Our Time. Listeners seemed to enjoy Part One of our story, so herewith the concluding episode. The Unparalleled Invasion was written by Jack London in 1910, and, although off on some of the specifics, was remarkably prescient on the big picture. Tonight, following the awakening of China and its advance around the world, the western powers decide to - oh, go on, take a wild guess - that's right, call a conference: China was appealed to and threatened by the United Powers, and that was all the Convention of Philadelphia came to; and the Convention and the Powers were laughed at by China. Li Tang Fwung, the power behind the Dragon Throne, deigned to reply. "What does China care for the comity of nations?" ...

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A Clubman's Notes

The Rise of China

Programming note: Join Steyn tomorrow, Saturday, for a another edition of his Serenade Radio show, On the Town. This week's broadcast features Number One records, French and Nigerian songwriters, dictaphones, and a bigtime rocker's favourite cover version. The fun starts at 5pm British Summer Time - which is 6pm in Western Europe/12 midday North American Eastern. You can listen from almost anywhere on the planet by clicking the button at top right here. ~Welcome to the sixty-sixth audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time - and our seventh venture into the work of Jack London, author of our popular serialisation Burning Daylight and of one of the world's greatest short stories, To Build a Fire. The Unparalleled Invasion is another ...

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Steyn's Song of the Week

The Way You Look Tonight

Mark tells the story of one of the greatest songs of all...

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On the Town

Here's to You, Glenda!

Mark presents sixty minutes of Number One records, songs from France and Nigeria, a bevy of ladies, a number for dictaphone, a very marmitey song, and a memorable ride over the 59th Street Bridge...

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A Clubman's Notes

Never Before Seen on the Soil of England

The concluding episode of Mark's serialisation of G K Chesterton's The Flying Inn...

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A Clubman's Notes

The Stink of Polygamy

In the penultimate episode of The Flying Inn, the Islamic character of Ivywood House is becoming more pronounced...

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A Clubman's Notes

Progressive Potentates and Yellow Dogs

Episode Ten of The Flying Inn, in which G K Chesterton contemplates an England in which the elites make common cause with Islam...

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A Clubman's Notes

Gorlumme, Allah!

Episode Eight of The Flying Inn, written in 1914 but extraordinarily prescient in its vision of an alliance between the elites and Islam...

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A Clubman's Notes

The Promise of the Orb

Part Seven of our latest Tale for Our Time: The Flying Inn, G K Chesterton's 1914 novel set in an England where the elites have made common cause with Islam...

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A Clubman's Notes

With Fez and Frock Coat

The third installment of our brand new Tale for Our Time, written by G K Chesterton in 1914 and contemplating an England in which the elites make common cause with Islam...

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A Clubman's Notes

"The Prophet of Mecca is Reaping His Harvest..."

Part Two of The Flying Inn by G K Chesterton, set in an England in which the elites decide to make common cause with Islam. Imagine that!

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A Clubman's Notes

Islam on the Beach

Welcome to the sixty-fifth audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time - and our second venture into G K Chesterton...

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Tales for Our Time

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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