Programming note: Please join me tomorrow, Wednesday, for another Clubland Q&A, when I'll be taking questions from Mark Steyn Club members live around the planet. The fun starts at 3pm North American Eastern - which is 8pm GMT. ~A reader reminded me the other day of the column below - which appeared in National Review ten-and-a-half years ago. My correspondent was keen to know if my view of Nigel Farage's battle against the political establishment was unchanged given my experience at GB News. Well, I try not to let personal bitterness interfere with a cool objective professional dispassionate assessment of a chap - although I think I'd be prepared to make an exception in the case of Nigel. At any rate, re-reading my decade-old piece, what ...
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark:
Rick McGinnis on the forthcoming Oscar-winner for least animated shortie...
Mark answers questions from Steyn Club members around the world...
Steyn on our atomised society, the demographic death spiral, and who are the real haters...
The Mann vs Steyn trial is back on!
Steyn on his free-speech lawsuits in London and Washington...
Just when you think the District of Columbia Superior Court can't get any worse, it does...
A Steyn essay from fourteen years ago proves prescient...
Steyn's two lawsuits against the UK state censor, and how GB News has been undone by its cowardice...
The return of our old friend Persimmon Coxcomb
For the second of this year's Yuletide Tales for Our Time, a Christmas visit to Green Gables...
Mark talks to Hugh Martin, composer of a Christmas classic...
The conclusion of Mark's Christmas Tale for Our Time...
Steyn's Christmas Tale for Our Time for a bollardized festive season...
On the centenary of the birth of John F Kennedy, Mark tells the story of how a Broadway musical became a key part of the President's posthumous mythology...
Mark reads John McCrae's great poem of the Great War...
Mark on an iconic progressive rock track turned easy-listening favorite...
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...
Lola Aviva and Tal Bachman celebrate the centenary of Hank Williams...
Part Two of the audio adaptation of Steyn's climatological bestseller...
Melissa Howes' audio adaptation of Steyn's bestselling book, A Disgrace to the Profession...