We have it on no less an authority than Ireland's police commissioner, Drew Harris, OBE, QPM, that objecting to the stabbing of your nation's children is "far right". Which may be why Conor McGregor, the mixed martial arts champ, is in a whole heap of trouble for intemperately tweeting in response to the schoolgirl stabbathon that "Ireland is at war" - and then retweeting a suggestion by Paul Golding of Britain First that the boxer lead a "freedom march" through Dublin. Mr McGregor was open to the idea - "If they do not act soon with their plan of action to ensure Ireland's safety, I will" - so, naturally, Commissioner Harris's constabulary is now investigating him for "hate speech". Which seems to be a higher priority to Dublin ...
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark.
Rick McGinnis on Carole Lombard and Clark Gable on-screen and off...
Laura Rosen Cohen rounds up the Internet...
Mark answers questions from Steyn Club members around the world...
The Mann vs Steyn trial is back on!
Steyn on his free-speech lawsuits in London and Washington...
Just when you think the District of Columbia Superior Court can't get any worse, it does...
A Steyn essay from fourteen years ago proves prescient...
Steyn's two lawsuits against the UK state censor, and how GB News has been undone by its cowardice...
On the centenary of the birth of John F Kennedy, Mark tells the story of how a Broadway musical became a key part of the President's posthumous mythology...
Mark reads John McCrae's great poem of the Great War...
Mark on an iconic progressive rock track turned easy-listening favorite...
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...
Tales for Our Time returns with a Steyn take on an H G Wells theme...
Lola Aviva and Tal Bachman celebrate the centenary of Hank Williams...
Part Eight of the audio adaptation of Steyn's bestseller A Disgrace to the Profession...
Part Seven of the audio adaptation of Steyn's climatological bestseller...
Part Six of the audio adaptation of Steyn's climatological bestseller...
Part Five of the audio adaptation of Steyn's bestseller A Disgrace to the Profession...
Part Four of the audio adaptation of Steyn's climatological bestseller...
Part Three of the audio adaptation of Steyn's bestseller A Disgrace to the Profession...
Part Two of the audio adaptation of Steyn's climatological bestseller...
Melissa Howes' audio adaptation of Steyn's bestselling book, A Disgrace to the Profession...