When Normal is Insufficient
My old boss Boris Johnson has been fortunate, as Donald Trump was in 2016, in his enemies. Labour and the Liberal Democrats and the various Celtic nationalists are all wasting their time going on about the "racist" and "homophobic" things he's said or written. By "racist", they mean he views the burqa as do the vast majority of those who aren't banged up in one. As for "homophobia", my memory is that during his Spectator days he used to get lunch at a gay sandwich bar called The Butty Boys, which I recall he spoke very highly of. If they're still in business, perhaps an endorsement might help. Be that as it may, watching some BBC show over the weekend, I caught a glimpse of (I think) The Observer's front page: the lead was a midnight ... |
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Steyn's Song of the WeekThe Man That Got Away
This weekend we're spending some time with Judy Garland, who half-a-century ago - June 22nd 1969 - was found dead in the bathroom of her rented London mews house. We're focusing on late Judy not the child star phase, so, if you're expecting "Over the Rainbow", you can find my thoughts on that song here. We started with what Jonathan Last called my "beautiful, funny, sad" essay on the third Mr Judy Garland, Sid Luft. To close out the weekend here's the story of what became, as "Over the Rainbow" was to her youth, the great anthem of the mature years: It's a smokey poky joint after closing, chairs upturned on tables. But the musicians are still around, and an aspiring singer, enjoined by the pianist to "Take it, honey, c'mon...", rises from ... Mark's Week in ReviewA Se'nnight of Steyn, June 17-23
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Mark at the Movies guest columnist Kathy Shaidle is back, this time with her take on the 1955 Bengali classic, Pather Panchali. Topical TakeThe Least Worst Man
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The quality of Morsi Canada vs Free SpeechFrom Social Platform to State Enforcer
Canadian Liberals wish not only to revive section 13 from the dead, but to give it untold powers to force social media companies to purge online speech from whomever the government deems the hatemongers du jour. Mark's MailboxThe Long Legs of Globalism
Steyn answers your questions on globalism and populism, the shortcomings of so-called conservative parties, the castration of Brexit, and much more: Mark's Mailbox is made possible through the support of members of The Mark Steyn Club, for which... The Mark Steyn ShowHoney Traps and Money Traps
In this episode those seeking to entrap a junior Trump staffer go through every dangle in the book from cash to honeypots. Then comes Robert Mueller - and the appalling personal cost to George and his family: Part One of my interview with George Papadopoulos can be found here - and, if you... Katz & CRTV vs SteynCRTV vs Steyn: The Verdict
A case that should never have been brought finally ends. The War on Free SpeechThe Vertigo at the Top of the Stick
Michael E Mann's defamation suit against me enters its Mann vs SteynFootball and Hockey
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A Clubman's NotesA Peevish Dandy as Insidious Viper
Welcome to the latest installment of our current Tale for Our Time - Erskine Childers' hugely influential bestselling thriller of The Riddle of the Sands. In two years of audio adventures, we have never presented a book that has so divided listeners. Following Mark Steyn Club member Eric Elsam's dismissal of this yarn as the biggest stinker in the history of stinkers, from Colorado Paul Cathey protests: Just goes to show, 'One man's meat. . .' etc. I have been savoring this read as a a sumptuous meal. Childers' exquisite use of the English language alone, if this were nothing more than a travelogue, makes it worth, and doubly worth, the investment of time. I compare the refreshment of it to emerging from a desert of trite cliches, ... A Clubman's NotesWaking Up the Admiralty Slackers
Welcome to Part Nine of my latest Tale for Our Time, the lone but influential novel by British patriot turned Irish republican Erskine Childers - The Riddle of the Sands. In tonight's episode Davies suggests to Carruthers that the man behind the German plot is, in fact, not German at all... A Clubman's NotesWorking It Out
Part Eight of our latest radio serial, The Riddle of the Sands... A Clubman's NotesA Bad Hand at Duplicity
It's time for Part Seven of my serialization of The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers - the latest in our series Tales for Our Time. A Clubman's NotesDucking the Question
Welcome to Part Six of the latest audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time: The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers - a spy story of German machinations in the Frisian Islands that speaks to us still over a century later... A Clubman's NotesBullet Foreheads and Large Mouths
Here comes Part Five of my serialization of The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers' protean spy novel of Anglo-German intrigue a decade before the Great War. In tonight's episode, Carruthers and Davies steer the Dulcibella into port... A Clubman's NotesYachting for Rebels
Part Four of my summer serialization of Erskine Childers' protean spy thriller of 1903 The Riddle of the Sands... The Mark Steyn Weekend ShowThe Snows of Yesteryear
Steyn's Song of the WeekThere's A Kind of Hush (All Over the World) with Peter Noone and Herman's Hermits
A live Song of the Week with the irrepressible Peter Noone and Herman's Hermits and a great pop song by Les Reed and Geoff Stephens: On the TownNon-Stop Nearly Number Ones
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