It's Friday - which means it's time for another edition of our Clubland Q&A live around the planet. The fun starts at 3pm North American Eastern time/8pm British Summer Time. As you are aware, Mark is a bit under the weather this week. He's been doing as many telly shows, radio spots and podcast appearances as he can, but he's got to pace himself in advance of his and Dr Naomi Wolf's upcoming legal showdown with Britain's Official Censors (the OC's) of Ofcom in the King's High Court. So, this week, our In-House Jewish Mother, Laura Rosen Cohen, will be taking over the mic and keeping Mark's seat warm in between her Sabbath preparations. Any time between now and when we go live – or during the show – Mark Steyn Club members can log-in and ...

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Hello one and all and welcome to this week's edition of Laura's Links, another week with an abundance of absolutely crazy and weird stories filtering through the Internet. My virtual cup runneth over with this stuff. Mercifully, the weather has continued to be really nice here in southern Ontario (which means lots of walks for me and my special needs son, especially on the Sabbath). As I've likely mentioned previously, the last walk of the day is when I first walk the household menfolk to synagogue for evening prayers. My son and I "drop" them off, and then we have our little set circuit that we follow (kids with special needs can be kind of rigid and very routine oriented). The "long" circuit takes us through a beautiful local park, and ...

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Breaking news from Ofcom!

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See Parts One, Two, and Three to get caught up. The rugby pitch, such as it was, looked vaguely like a re-enactment setting for the Battle of the Somme. There was some grass, yes, but between the ongoing drizzle and the previous days of rain, it was mostly muck. And puddles. Lots of puddles. And rivulets—even mini-waterfalls—between lots of puddles. Above, only gray, drizzling sky. I also happened to notice four or five bodies of water on the so-called pitch which looked to qualify as genuine ponds. Some looked six or seven inches deep. Maybe more. A thought flashed across my mind: Those are deep enough to potentially drown in, if, say, a few guys tackled me, drove me face first into one, and didn't get up quickly enough. This didn't look ...

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

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While we often think of nostalgia as an emotion that helps shape our memories or a longing for the past; a romantic feeling, it has to be remembered that nostalgia was once regarded, like melancholy, as a kind of mental illness, sometimes considered fatal in soldiers and sailors kept away from their homes for too long. Director Wong Kar-wai, talking about his 2000 film In the Mood for Love – regarded today as his masterpiece – said that "the film is about a period that's been lost and actually is like a dream." The specific period he was talking about was Hong Kong in the early '60s, the city his parents moved to when he was five, escaping the turmoil threatening Shanghai with the first stirrings of Mao's Cultural Revolution. Working with ...

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SteynOnline is back in the cruise biz, with Snerdley, Eva, Leilani and more...

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Mark answers questions from Steyn Club members around the world...

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Laura Rosen Cohen rounds up the Interenet from the new Trans World Airlines to a chilly dip with the King...

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Snerdley & Steyn do their best to find a decent gay bar in Kampala...

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Happy Victoria Day to all Mark's fellow Canadians...

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As Mark discussed on a recent Clubland Q&A, actor and pop singer Ed Ames died a couple of weeks back. Here's what Mark had to say about him: Ed Ames died this week, at the grand age of 95. I spent a very pleasant week with him on a National Review cruise a few years ago, he was a fan of mine and he's missus even more so. And I was a fan of his and his marvelous, rich singing voice, such a beautiful voice. And I just love to hear him sing ballads. You'll know if you listen to my show on Serenade Radio our Song of the Week. A few weeks back, I played his version of "Try To Remember," which I particularly love. He started with his....and I think actually also just the other week I actually played another one of his from his Brothers days, the ...

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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...

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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...

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Just for Victoria Day, a quintessentially Canadian song...

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Mark's contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's classic The Prisoner of Zenda: The Prisoner of Windsor...

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Steyn remembers Tim Ball, hounded into penury and death by the deadbeat Michael Mann...

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The Corner post that launched a lawsuit...

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