Programming note: Tonight, Tuesday, I'll be here with another episode of our latest Tale for Our Time. Tomorrow, Wednesday, we'll have our regular Clubland Q&A with questions from Steyn Club members live around the planet at 3pm North American Eastern - which is 8pm Greenwich Mean Time/9pm Central European. Hope you can swing by. ~The Spectator, whose headlines are lazy and terrible and an embarrassment to a once great publication, had a particularly bad example the other day: How many more knife attacks can France take? Well, as noted in the very first sentence of the article, there are currently 120 "knife attacks" every day in France. A generation ago it would have been inconceivable that the French would accept with a collective ...

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Programming note: Join me tonight for the latest episode of our current Tale for Our Time - Robert Hugh Benson's Lord of the World, a piece of speculative fiction from 1907 on the world of the early twenty-first century. ~On last week's Clubland Q&A, I remarked en passant that almost everything connected with the Government of the United States turns out to be a racket, and it might be quicker for Elon Musk just to list the seven things that aren't a racket. And several commenters protested that seven was a gross-overestimate of the non-racket component. After the weekend's revelations, I am inclined to agree with them. Just as a f'rinstance, USAid funds nine out of ten media outlets in Ukraine, under the guise of supporting "independent ...

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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 April's 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 catch up via this SteynOnline premiere. Mark is joined by James Hammerstein, son of Oscar Hammerstein and godson of Jerome Kern, to tell the story of one of the team's greatest songs. The show includes performances by Johnny Hartman, Peggy Lee, Mel Tormé and many more. Click above to listen. ~This airing of Steyn's Serenade Song of the Week is a presentation of The Mark Steyn Club. Thank ...

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

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Rick McGinnis on Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison in The Ghost and Mrs Muir...

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On this week's edition of Mark Steyn on the Town we play a song for the season, a song for Mata Hari, and songs for the protean concept album. Plus mambo meets calypso, and Marianne Faithfull - forsooth..!

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A Nigerian naysayer on Trump and Steyn's bestseller...

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Greetings one and all and welcome to this week's edition of Laura's Links...

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Steyn answers your questions on Trump 47's continuing energy and the contrast with Europe. Mark also addressed the accumulating disclosures about the DC grifters on the take from USAid...

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Mark takes questions from Steyn Club members around the planet...

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Why is NeverTrumper Bill Kristol being funded by the "US Agency for International Development"?

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Steyn surveys the scene from avocados to apostasy...

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Mark tells the story of a one-hit writer whose song from a Princeton University revue went around the world and into orbit...

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Mark remembers Elaine Stritch - plus big hits from a small country and a Sinatra cavalcade of Rodgers & Hart...

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Steyn on the ever lengthening list of unsolved mysteries...

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An accident that should never have happened...

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If you missed today's edition of Steyn's Clubland Q&A live around the planet, here's the action replay. This week's show focused mainly on the tremendous energy of the new administration...

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Steyn on Johnson, Starmer, "vaccines" and "grooming"...

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In Europe formal observances of the Holocaust grow ever more fulsome in direct proportion to the rise in anti-Semitism...

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Steyn on more examples of how "diversity is our strength"...

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Steyn picks some highlights from Inauguration Day...

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The "peaceful transfer of power" finally ends...

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After President Trump's suggestion that the United States should buy Greenland, Mark reads the greatest of all poems on the subject...

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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...

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Part Twenty-Five of our winter audio adventure Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson...

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Part Twenty-Four of our current Tale for Our Time - Robert Hugh Benson's predictive novel of 1907, Lord of the World...

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In Part Twenty-Three of Lord of the World, a nocturnal volor flight over the Alps takes a dramatic turn...

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Part Twenty-Two of Robert Hugh Benson's 1907 tale of a future of world peace brought about by a charismatic saviour...

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In Episode Twenty-One of Lord of the World, the remnants of western Christianity are feeling the pressure...

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Welcome to Part Twenty of Lord of the World, Robert Hugh Benson's far-sighted novel of 1907 and the the latest entry to our series Tales for Our Time...

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Welcome to Episode Nineteen of our latest Tale for Our Time...

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In tonight's episode, following the mysterious American senator's assumption of the presidency of Europe, the Pope summons his cardinals to announce his response...

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Episode Seventeen of a far-sighted novel of 1907 by Robert Hugh Benson speculating on the world of the early twenty-first century...

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Episode Sixteen of a far-sighted caper by Robert Hugh Benson, Lord of the World: a novel published in 1907 and speculating about the state of the world a century hence - ie, right about now...

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In Episode Fifteen of Lord of the World, Robert Hugh Benson's far-sighted novel of 1907, Percy is summoned by the very pontiff...

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Robert Hugh Benson's Lord of the World is a view of the early twenty-first century from the vantage of 1907, but it is remarkably prescient...

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The thirteenth episode of our current Tale for Our Time: Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson...

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Episode Twelve of Lord of the World, with its rising young American senator of whom little is known...

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IIn tonight's episode of Lord of the World, the newspapers proclaim the dawn of a new era of world peace ...because man now knows he is his own god...

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In tonight's installment, Percy finds himself back at Victoria Station in a wholly transformed capital...

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Our latest Tale for Our Time charges on: Lord of the World, Robert Hugh Benson's speculative fiction of 1907 about how our world might be a century hence - ie, right now...

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In Episode Eight of Lord of the World, on the eve of the expected war with the Eastern Empire, there is a sudden outbreak of world peace...

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Part Seven of our latest Tale for Our Time: Lord of the World is Robert Hugh Benson's futuristic fiction of 1907, speculating on where we'll be in a century's time - which is more or less right now...

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Welcome to Part Six of our nightly audio entertainment - Lord of the World, Robert Hugh Benson's vision of the early twenty-first century as seen from 1907...

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Welcome to Part Five of our brand new Tale for Our Time: Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson, set in the early twenty-first century as seen from 1907...

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Part Four of our latest audio diversion, and our first foray into the oeuvre of Robert Hugh Benson. Lord of the World is a work of speculative fiction from 1907 about the western world in the early twenty-first century - and Mr Benson got an awful lot of things right...

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Welcome to the third installment of our brand new Tale for Our Time, a most far-sighted novel, written by Robert Hugh Benson and published in 1907...

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Welcome to Part Two of Lord of the World, our latest audio adventure in Tales for Our Time and our first venture into the work of Robert Hugh Benson, a favourite of at least two popes...

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Welcome to the sixty-eighth audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time - and our first foray into the work of Robert Hugh Benson. Lord of the World is a far-sighted novel of 1907 looking ahead to the world of the early twenty-first century. Which is to say, right now...

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