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Mark Steyn

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Fifty years ago, the dawn of the Seventies, the sound of spring on the British Hit Parade: There was rock (Canned Heat, "Let's Work Together"), soft rock (Simon & Garfunkel, "Bridge Over Troubled Water"), folk-rock (Judy Collins, "Both Sides Now"), pop (Steam, "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye"), session-group pop (Edison Lighthouse, "Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes"), Motown (Jackson Five, "I Want You Back"), country (Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell, "All I Have to Do Is Dream"), all to one degree or another the soundtrack of the era. But the Number One bestselling record exactly half a century ago, the one that beat out all the above, was a two-decade-old showtune from a so-so forgotten musical revived for an embarrassingly awful flop film ...

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The Mark Steyn Weekend Show

The Faint Half-Blush That Dies Along Her Throat

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ImageWelcome to this weekend's entry in our Mark Steyn Club anthology of video poetry - and by sheer coincidence it's by a writer Joe Biden quoted in his Super Thursday victory speech:

To paraphrase the poet Robert Browning, our reach should exceed our grasp. And my reach does exceed our grasp, because I believe we can grasp whatever we reach for.

Er, okay. Close enough for government work. What Browning actually wrote, in his poem about the painter Andrea del Sarto, was:

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?

One thing a heaven's for is one's late loves - which is the subject of the Browning poem I've chosen, after some prompting by our film columnist Kathy Shaidle...

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Mark's Week in Review

A Se'nnight of Steyn, March 2-8

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

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Shaidle at the Cinema

Terms of Endearment

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"Re-watching Terms of Endearment while having cancer may have been one of the dumber things I've done recently," writes Kathy Shaidle

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Clubland Q&A

Who Wants to Be a Million Airhead?

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Mark answers Steyn Club members' questions on Bloomberg's billions, Deng Xiaopill-popping, Turkish border provocations, and more

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Steyn on Fox

Pow Wow Ciao

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Heap big floppo campaign from Fauxcahontas

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Clubland Q&A

Live Around the Planet: Friday March 6th

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Mark answers questions from Steyn Club members live around the world

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Steyn on the Air

The Plugs Are On But Nobody's Home

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Mark joins John Oakley to address Joe, Justin, and who has fewer marbles

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Steyn on the Air

Steyn in for Rush Today!

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Mark does double duty on the airwaves

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Laura's Links

Clifford the Big Red Dog with Lesbian Neighbors

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From Clifford's wokeover to trans triumphalism, all in Laura's Links

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Steyn on Fox

The Geezer Apocalypse

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Mark and Tucker on the triumph of the Comeback Coot:

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Politics & Current Affairs

Cover Story

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Sharia chic, property is theft (except mine), and the non-warm-mongering scientist

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Politics & Current Affairs

Michael E Mann, Loser and Liar ...and Scofflaw and Deadbeat?

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After losing big time in court, will the self-proclaimed Nobel Laureate have to take out a mortgage on his hockey stick?

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The War on Free Speech

Michael E Mann, Loser

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Dr Tim Ball prevails against a fake-o litigant who failed to prosecute his case

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Mann vs Steyn

Football and Hockey

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The Corner post that launched a lawsuit...

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A Clubman's Notes

An Artist in Crime

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In the final installment of John Buchan's thrilling tale The Power-House, Edward Leithen sizes up his opponent...

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A Clubman's Notes

A Vanished Scar

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Welcome to the penultimate episode of John Buchan's 1913 "shocker" of a fragile civilization and those who prey upon it...

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A Clubman's Notes

The Safest Place on Earth?

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In Part Eight of The Power-House, an ordinary Englishman is strolling on a summer's day through central London. Except that, amid the jostle of the Cockney throng, all is not as it seems...

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A Clubman's Notes

How Now, What-Not?

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It's time for Part Seven of my serialization of The Power-House by John Buchan - the latest in our series Tales for Our Time, and a tale of globalist machinations in the run-up to the Great War. In tonight's episode, Edward Leithen finds himself at a rum restaurant in Fitzrovia...

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A Clubman's Notes

'Tached Fine Fellow

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Welcome to Part Six of The Power-House by John Buchan, a "shocker" that paved the way for his breakout bestseller The Thirty-Nine Steps...

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A Clubman's Notes

The Only Routes for Madmen

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Here's Part Five of my serialization of The Power-House, John Buchan's classic thriller...

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A Clubman's Notes

Knout So Queer as Folk

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Part Four of The Power-House, John Buchan's tale of civilization menaced by globalists. In tonight's episode, two gentlemen find themselves musing after dinner...

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A Clubman's Notes

The Man in the Library

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Part Three of my serialization of The Power-House by John Buchan, a pre-war yarn from the twilight of Edwardian London...

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A Clubman's Notes

Buchan and Bokhara

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Part Two of The Power-House by John Buchan, with its Buchanite theme of a fragile civilization threatened by globalist elites...

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A Clubman's Notes

A Rather Exciting Business

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Welcome to the thirty-fourth in our series Tales for Our Time, and it's our third yarn by John Buchan, author of The Thirty-Nine Steps and its sequel Greenmantle...

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The Mark Steyn Weekend Show

A Ribband of Red, a Rose of Shame

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Welcome to the latest entry in our Mark Steyn Club anthology of video poetry - The Low-Down White by Robert W Service, recorded live on the Mark Steyn Cruise....

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Katz & Blaze TV vs Steyn

Steyn Wins ...Again

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Litigious losers Cary Katz and Blaze/CRTV strike out yet again

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