As a promotional tie-in for The Mark Steyn Show's demographic whirlwind special, the Italian government very kindly arranged for the island of Lampedusa to be swamped by sub-Saharan Africans who in a couple of days wound up outnumbering the locals three-to-one. On the crude arithmetic my guests were explaining, what's to stop that becoming the ratio of the entire continent? But hey, what's the big deal? The hack pontiff was in Marseilles to finger-wag: "Those who risk their lives at sea do not invade, they look for welcome, for life" he said. "As for the emergency, the phenomenon of migration is not so much a short-term urgency, always good for fueling alarmist propaganda, but a reality of our times." "Alarmist propaganda"? Pro-tip to the ...
Mark remembers the late Brian Savin with one of their first collaborations, from back in the 1980s...
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark:
Rick McGinnis on a Powell & Pressburger classic...
Mark answers questions from Steyn Club members around the world...
On the bike paths of America, your future is showing up...
Lola Aviva and Tal Bachman celebrate the centenary of Hank Williams...
Nothing to see here, says the colossus of Conservative Inc...
Mark talks to the lyricist of one of the greatest popular songs ever written...
You know who loved this week's song? The late Antipodean polymath whom I miss so much - Clive James:
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...
Steyn's two lawsuits against the UK state censor, and how GB News has been undone by its cowardice...
Steyn files his second suit against the UK state censor Ofcom...
Welcome to the final instalment of our latest Tale for Our Time - Steyn's summer diversion on a theme of H G Wells...
The penultimate episode of Steyn's summer diversion on a theme of H G Wells...
Part Fifteen of our summer diversion - Steyn's variation on a theme of H G Wells...
Part Fourteen of Steyn's summer diversion on a theme of H G Wells...
Episode Twelve of Out of Time, Steyn's variation on a theme of H G Wells...
Part Eleven of Steyn's nightly audio adventure...
Episode Ten of our summer entertainment - Steyn's variation on a theme from H G Wells...
Episode Nine of Steyn's variation on H G Wells, in which the Eloi and the Morlocks show up 800,000 years ahead of schedule...
Episode Eight of our current Tale for Our Time - Steyn's Out of Time...
Part Seven of Steyn's variation on H G Wells, with Eloi and Morlocks relocated to the twenty-first century...
Part Six of our latest nightly entertainment - Out of Time, Mark's variation on a theme of H G Wells...
Part Five of our current Tale for Our Time: Mark's variation on a theme of H G Wells...
Part Four of our brand new Tale for Our Time, Steyn's variation on a theme of H G Wells...
Welcome to Episode Three of our summer diversion, Out of Time - Steyn's variation on a theme of H G Wells...
Part Two of our summer diversion, Steyn's variation on a theme of H G Wells...
Tales for Our Time returns with a Steyn take on an H G Wells theme...