Beyond The Mark Steyn Show:
Columns, poems, tales, music, movies and more from Mark and friends
Laura's Links
Hooligans and Homelessness
Greetings one and all and welcome to this week's batch of Laura's Links. It was another busy week here for me and mine here in southern Ontario. The weather has been spectacular, the sunshine has been a real blessing, warming my bones after such a long and grey winter. I'm happy to report that my mask sightings are down to a minimum which I guess is a sign of the mental recovery process for the majority of the population here. However, the economic and environmental decline of the city of Toronto is still pronounced and obvious. Toronto has become a far more dangerous, crowded and indifferent city over the past few years. There is rarely a street or bus shelter downtown that doesn't have homeless people sprawled across it. Random New ...
Steyn on the Air
Stating the Obvious
Programming note: Catch the latest edition of The Mark Steyn Show Down Under on ADH TV every night, Tuesday to Friday, at 5pm Australian Eastern. ~This week Mark was reunited with his old EIB comrade Mister Snerdley - James Golden - on Bo Snerdley's Rush Hour at New York's legendary radio powerhouse 77 WABC. The topics tended toward statements of the obvious, although evidently they came as news to Joe Biden and New York's Jewish groups: Muslims aren't hot for Jews, and Africans don't dig the gays. Nevertheless, Snerdley & Steyn did their best to recommend a decent gay bar in Kampala. Click below (or here) to listen in full: ~For more details of that Adriatic cruise Mark and James spoke of, please see here. ~Steyn's claim against the UK ...
A Clubman's Notes
The Mark Steyn Cruise Is Back!
SteynOnline is back in the cruise biz, with Snerdley, Eva, Leilani and more...
The Bachman Beat
Tal Bachman: Two Centuries of Rugby, Part III
It's a fine autumn day, 1823. A new school year has begun at Warwickshire's Rugby School. Among other things, that means the students have have begun to play the in-house ball game again during free time, just like every year for as long as anyone can remember. The rules never change. They will be the same this year as they were last year—which is to say, the same as they were ten, twenty, fifty years before. And given that Queen Elizabeth I's royal grocer Lawrence Sheriff founded the school in 1567, maybe two hundred plus years before. No one really knows...
Rick's Flicks
The War at Sea: Sink the Bismarck!
Rick McGinnis on a classic war movie with Kenneth More and Dana Wynter...
Clubland Q&A
Live Around the Planet: Friday May 26th
Mark answers questions from Steyn Club members around the world...
Laura's Links
The Shrinking World
Laura Rosen Cohen rounds up the Internet from Swedish non-blondes to Saudi Jewrabia...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport
Rolf Harris died earlier this month - a decade after the total implosion of his celebrity, and with the announcement being held for the best part of a fortnight from his hasty shovelling into the crematorium. He was a "national treasure" on at least two continents - until one day he wasn't. And, notwithstanding two years of headlines about "Paedos at the Beeb!" re Jimmy Savile, Stuart Hall, Jonathan King and others, it was still something of a shock to hear that Rolf Harris had been found guilty of twelve counts of indecent assault on young girls in the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties. As I said when he was charged, it would mark the demise of his small but enduring catalogue of novelty songs. "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport" and "Jake The ...
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. My new book is both a sequel to and a contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's classic of 1894, The Prisoner of Zenda...
A Clubman's Notes
The Elphbergs - with a Word on the Rassendylls
Mark's contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's classic The Prisoner of Zenda: The Prisoner of Windsor...
Ave atque vale
Ball's Bearing
Steyn remembers Tim Ball, hounded into penury and death by the deadbeat Michael Mann...
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