Another day, another empty seat at this year's Christmas table - thanks to western governments, feckless and complicit in the destruction of their societies. So a German couple decide to travel to Paris for a pre-Christmas break. The City of Light and all that, right? Don't worry, they didn't go to any of those dangerous banlieues. Instead, they were a few yards from the Eiffel Tower strolling the Quai de Grenelle when a man attacked them shouting - go on, take a wild guess - yes, "Allahu akbar!" The husband, in his early twenties, was fatally stabbed; the wife is alive because a passing cabbie intervened. The stabber then fled across the Seine and attacked a local chap and a 66-year-old English tourist whom he hit in the eye with a hammer ...
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark:
Rick McGinnis on the forthcoming Oscar-winner for least animated shortie...
Mark answers questions from Steyn Club members around the world...
Steyn on our atomised society, the demographic death spiral, and who are the real haters...
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...
Mark talks to Hugh Martin, composer of a Christmas classic...
The conclusion of Mark's Christmas Tale for Our Time...
Steyn's Christmas Tale for Our Time for a bollardized festive season...
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 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...