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Assad? Sad!
Programming note: Join Mark later this evening for another episode of his nightly audio adventure: Mystery in White, a "Christmas crime story" by Jefferson Farjeon. It airs right here at SteynOnline at 7pm North American Eastern - which is midnight Greenwich Mean Time. ~The "peaceful transfer of power" is a lot quicker in Syria than in America. Some perfunctory looting of the presidential palace, and next thing you know Mr and Mrs Assad and the kids are settling into their far more manageable studio apartment in Moscow. Before his mid-life career switch to murderous dictator, young Bashar was a respected London ophthalmologist. Yet he failed to read the writing on the wall. On the BBC some or other expert was even using the phrase "Arab ...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
The story of an erubescent proboscis and the brothers-in-law who made it part of the American holiday season....
Mark's Week in Review
A Se'nnight of Steyn: December 1-7
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked at SteynOnline...
Rick's Flicks
Tora! Tora! Tora! and Pearl Harbor, Eighty-Three Years Later
The Japanese surprise attack on the US Navy at Pearl Harbor was a surprise not just because the Imperial Japanese Navy had planned and executed it almost flawlessly, but because almost no one thought it possible and those who did were ignored. Hindsight is, of course, perfect vision...
On the Town
Regrets, I Haven't Had a Few
On this week's edition of Mark Steyn on the Town Mark remembers a French composer, while Sinatra sings with a Brazilian composer. Plus music from Nova Scotia, and lyricist Gary Osborne recalls a song worth thirty quid...
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
A Murder in Midtown
If you missed today's edition of Mark's Clubland Q&A live around the planet, here's the action replay. Click above to listen...
Clubland Q&A
Live Around the Planet: Wednesday, December 4th
Steyn fields questions from listeners around the planet...
Politics & Current Affairs
Goodnight, Vienna
On Sunday President-elect Trump chose to threaten the ever swelling ranks of BRICS nations:
Steyn's Song of the Week
Try a Little Tenderness
Mark traces the history of a blockbuster song from Ray Noble and Ruth Etting to Otis Redding and Three Dog Night...
On the Town
Song of a Bird
Steyn celebrates St Andrew's Day - and the centenary of a quartet of Broadway blockbusters...
Steyn Live!
Come Sail With Us!
The Mark Steyn 2025 Cruise is just around the corner... Book your cabin today!
Seasons of Steyn
The Best Blood, the Worst Wars
Thoroughly Modern Milley and the American way of war...
Politics & Current Affairs
A Modification in the Official Lie
Three little girls sacrificed on the altar of "diversity"...
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...
Politics & Current Affairs
As Steyn Goes, So Goes the Deep State?
Is the CIA getting its plot twists from The Prisoner of Windsor?
A Clubman's Notes
Loud Man in Silent Tussle
Just ahead of Part Eleven of our nightly audio adventure, a reminder of Steyn's still newish weekend music show on Serenade Radio, every Saturday at 5pm GMT/12 noon North American Eastern. This week's episode features a cavalcade of Christmas songs from the Continent and the Commonwealth, plus a Sinatra Sextet of Hollywood rarities. In tonight's episode of Mystery in White, Mr Maltby explains to certain of the party what's going on: "Exhibit A," began the old man, touching the hammer. "I found it on my way here, near this house. It was partially, but not completely, covered by the snow. Does that suggest anything to either of you?" "It suggests something to me," answered David. "What?" "That it must have been left there or dropped quite ...
A Clubman's Notes
The Full Quid
Welcome to the latest in our series of audio adventures, Tales for Our Time. This month's yarn was published eighty-seven years ago, and is revived as the first of this season's Christmas capers: Mystery in White, by Jefferson Farjeon. Episode Ten.
A Clubman's Notes
No Laughing Matter
Our latest Tale for Our Time charges on: Mystery in White, Jefferson Farjeon's "Christmas crime story" of 1937. Episode Nine.
A Clubman's Notes
A Very Poor Father Christmas
In episode eight of Mystery in White, Lydia is determined to jolly a snowbound and not terribly compatible house party into an appropriately festive Christmas...
A Clubman's Notes
A Man in Your Room
It's time for Part Seven of our latest Tale for Our Time: Mystery in White is Jefferson Farjeon's "Christmas crime story" of 1937, and the first of this season's Yuletide capers at SteynOnline.
A Clubman's Notes
Questions and Answers
Welcome to Part Six of our nightly audio entertainment - Murder in White, Jefferson Farjeon's "Christmas crime story" and the first of this season's Yuletide capers.
A Clubman's Notes
Feeling for Friends
Welcome to Part Five of the first of this season's Christmas capers: Mystery in White by Jefferson Farjeon, about the adventures of half-a-dozen railway passengers abandoning a snowbound train on Christmas Eve...
A Clubman's Notes
Not Spoiling Christmas
Here we go with Part Four of our latest audio diversion, and the first of this year's Christmas capers. Our "Christmas crime story", as the publishers bill it, is Mystery in White - a Jefferson Farjeon thriller from the England of 1937 - before grooming gangs and Albanian sex-traffickers and much else.
A Clubman's Notes
Pulling Her from the Wreckage
Welcome to the third installment of our brand new Tale for Our Time, the first of this season's Christmas capers, written by Jefferson Farjeon and published in 1937. You can enjoy Mystery in White episode by episode, night by night, twenty minutes before you lower your lamp. Or, alternatively, do feel free to binge-listen:
A Clubman's Notes
Lost in a Wilderness of White
Welcome to Part Two of Mystery in White by Jefferson Farjeon, our latest audio adventure in Tales for Our Time and the first in this season's Christmas capers.
A Clubman's Notes
Snowed In on the 11.37
Welcome to the sixty-seventh audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time - and the first of this year's Yuletide capers - Mystery in White, a "Christmas crime story" from 1937 by Jefferson Farjeon, scion of an eminent family, as Mark notes in his introduction, that has given us, among other delights, the definitive Rip van Winkle, a ditty about the Royal Family, and a global pop hit. Part One.
On the Town
Puccini in Avalon
On this week's edition of Mark Steyn on the Town Mark observes the centennial of Puccini's death with his somewhat unlikely biggest hit. Plus there's a Sierra Leone double-play and a very operatic Sinatra Sextet...
Steyn's Song of the Week
It's All in the Game
In a brand new episode, two days ahead of the American "elections", Mark plays songs by mayors, governors, senators and presidential candidates - and tells the story of the only standard in the American songbook written by a man on a winning presidential ticket...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Lilac Wine
Mike Batt joins Mark for a favourite song of four generations of female vocalists from Eartha Kitt to Miley Cyrus...
A Clubman's Notes
Nonplussed and Terrified
The concluding episode of The Unparalleled Invasion, written by Jack London in 1910...
A Clubman's Notes
The Rise of China
Welcome to the sixty-sixth audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time - and our seventh venture into the work of Jack London...
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...
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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