Mark Steyn
November 11, 2024
November 10, 2024
November 10, 2024
November 9, 2024
November 8, 2024

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

Topical Take

Where We Were, Where We Are

Well, in the country with the world's greatest constitution and the world's lousiest election system, it's now five days since the laughably misnamed "Election Day". So how's it going? In California's fourteenth congressional district, they've now managed to count an impressive forty-four per cent of the vote! This is the home turf of Representative Eric Shagdwell, the Chinese asset penetrated by Fang Fang. So one would not have thought the outcome in doubt. But for various reasons they're still going to be counting until next weekend at least. So I take it this fourteenth congressional district is a vast tract of semi-wildnerness recently devastated by Hurricane Helene? Actually, no, it's a chunk of suburban Alameda County - a ...

Continue Reading

Mark's Week in Review

A Se'nnight of Steyn: November 3-9

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

Continue Reading

Rick's Flicks

Fear of Flying: John Wayne, the Disaster Movie and The High and the Mighty

Rick McGinnis on John Wayne in the cockpit...

Continue Reading

Politics & Current Affairs

Monkey Business

The Deep State moves to Plan B...

Continue Reading

Laura's Links

USA, USA, USA, Baby!

Laura Rosen Cohen rounds up the Internet...

Continue Reading

The Mark Steyn Audio Show

The Comeback King

Steyn answers your questions on the most amazing comeback in American political history...

Continue Reading

Clubland Q&A

Live Around the Planet: Wednesday November 6th

Steyn fields questions from listeners around the planet...

Continue Reading

Politics & Current Affairs

Beyond the Margin of Steal

Steyn covers Election Night live...

Continue Reading

Politics & Current Affairs

Incoming Dictatorship Watch

No way no how will the opposition leader be taking office...

Continue Reading

Politics & Current Affairs

Incoming Landslide Alert!

The first votes are in...

Continue Reading

Politics & Current Affairs

"Election" "Day" Minus One

Let the shenanigans begin!

Continue Reading

Politics & Current Affairs

"Election" "Day" Minus Two

Steyn on New York State's grotesque execution of a beloved squirrel...

Continue Reading

Politics & Current Affairs

"Election" "Day" Minus Three

The Freeish World's lousiest election system continues to work its dark magic...

Continue Reading

Politics & Current Affairs

"Election" "Day" Minus Four

Don't sign up to the Republic of Bollocks...

Continue Reading

Politics & Current Affairs

A Modification in the Official Lie

Three little girls sacrificed on the altar of "diversity"...

Continue Reading

The Mark Steyn Audio Show

"Election" "Day" Minus Six

Steyn answers your questions on the US election, the latest revelations about Southport, and sundry topics in between...

Continue Reading

Politics & Current Affairs

"Election" "Day" Minus Seven

Tommy Robinson gets eighteen months in solitary in Belmarsh...

Continue Reading

Politics & Current Affairs

"Election" "Day" Minus Eight

Is your toddler a Nazi? Plus the Democrats' new literacy programme: tampons!

Continue Reading

Politics & Current Affairs

"Election" "Day" Minus Nine

The perils of maintenance, and Kamala's happy ending...

Continue Reading

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...

Continue Reading

Politics & Current Affairs

As Steyn Goes, So Goes the Deep State?

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

Continue Reading

Ave atque vale

Farewell to a Friend

Mark remembers his beloved and inspirational cat Marvin...

Continue Reading

Mann vs Steyn

Football and Hockey

The Corner post that launched a lawsuit...

Continue Reading

On the Town

Burma Broads and Butterflies

On the eve of Remembrance Day/Armistice Day/Veterans Day, this week's edition of Mark Steyn on the Town plays the music of the Great War - songs that are over a hundred years old but are still sung, including a summer pop hit from 2010; a soldiers' favourite that supposedly evokes the sound of French bedsprings; and the only Sinatra track to be banned across the British Empire. To listen to the programme, simply click here and log-in. ~Last week's pre-election edition of On the Town attracted a lot of comment. Peter, a First Week Founding Member of The Mark Steyn Club, writes: Nice show as always Mark; a fine respite from the ugliness of the 'real' world. Hearing Frank S. interact with the Presidents, it makes me smile ironically knowing ...

Continue Reading

The War on Free Speech

The Cost of Candour

It could be worse. Mark could be banged up in Belmarsh like poor old Tommy. [UPDATE: more on the corrupt two-tier UK judiciary breaking now.] Today, Justice Farbey of the High Court in London ruled: 1) the costs demanded by Ofcom are to be sent for detailed assessment on the standard basis 2) there will be a payment on account of £50,000 by 19 November 2024 3) Costs of today to be paid by the Claimants, save in relation to the written submissions which will be paid at 50% Mark will have twenty-one days to consider an appeal. Ofcom had demanded £144,959.28, refused to provide detailed billing to justify that amount, and then twisted that to mock the actual harm they have caused Mark and Naomi Wolf: (Steyn's) post ad hoc attempt to downplay ...

Continue Reading

Steyn's Song of the Week

It's All in the Game

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. ~If you missed Mark's Song of the Week earlier today on Serenade Radio, here's a chance to hear its world premiere at SteynOnline. 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. You'll hear it sung and played by everyone from Dinah Shore and Nat King Cole to Van ...

Continue Reading

On the Town

Wallowing in the Mire

Programming note: Join Mark tomorrow, Sunday, for a brand new pre-election edition of Steyn's Song of the Week on Serenade Radio, telling the story of the only hit song composed by a man on a winning presidential ticket. The fun starts at 5.30pm Greenwich Mean Time - which is 6.30pm in Western Europe/1.30pm North American Eastern. You can listen from almost anywhere on the planet by clicking the button at top right here. ~On this week's edition of Mark Steyn on the Town, we look forward to November 5th - both the US election and, in much of the Commonwealth, Bonfire Night. Our Sinatra Sextet features Frank with a quartet of presidents and a brace of first ladies. Plus: the late Jack Jones sings Nelson Eddy and Bryan Adams. To listen to the ...

Continue Reading

Steyn's Song of the Week

Witchcraft

A bewitching song by two of Mark's favourite songwriters...

Continue Reading

On the Town

One O'Clock Jump Up!

Music to put your clocks back to, plus, with Halloween looming, the Dracula Cha-Cha and the Spooky Sinatra...

Continue Reading

Steyn's Song of the Week

Lullaby of Broadway

Mark tells 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...

Continue Reading

On the Town

When Jimmy Met Clarence

Mark explores some byways of Bond...

Continue Reading

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...

Continue Reading

On the Town

Fresh!

On this week's edition, Mark has 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...

Continue Reading

A Clubman's Notes

Nonplussed and Terrified

The concluding episode of The Unparalleled Invasion, written by Jack London in 1910...

Continue Reading

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...

Continue Reading

Steyn's Song of the Week

The Way You Look Tonight

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

Continue Reading

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...

Continue Reading

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...

Continue Reading

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...

Continue Reading

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...

Continue Reading

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...

Continue Reading

Image

© 2024 Mark Steyn Enterprises (US) Inc. All rights reserved.
No part of this website or any of its contents may be reproduced, copied, modified or adapted, without the prior written consent of Mark Steyn Enterprises.