Twitter has shut down a parody account mocking Canada's climate alarmist-in-chief after a call from the Prime Minister's office but sadly Mark is on assignment and unavailable for comment. So we've done the next best thing here at SteynOnline by bringing back this gem from our archives circa December 2015 with just the right amount of ridicule for those who must not be mocked (with bonus cat album plug): It's always fun to start the day with Toronto's peerless morning man John Oakley. We discussed the big climate beano in Paris and Barack Obama, David Suzuki and Justin Trudeau's wish to return us to the pristine purity of an "indigenous" society. Click below to listen: I must say it's awfully cute the way AM640 managed to embed the cover ...

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While Mark's away, and by request of members, we're experimenting with an occasional "open thread" forum at SteynOnline. If you're a member of The Mark Steyn Club and there's something on your mind not covered by Mark's columns or audio-video presentations, feel free to raise it here. The whole world can read it, but Club membership is required to write it. So, if you've been toying with signing up, either for a full year or a see-how-it-goes experimental quarter, you're more than welcome to sign up and give it your best below. Please remember our usual comment strictures apply - except the one about going off-topic, as in this case the topics are your call. Otherwise, no profanity, no ad hominem attacks, no URL-fests, and don't go crazily ...

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Mark is "on assignment", as CBS used to say about Dan Rather, for a few weeks. So, as we approach the first anniversary of Jerry Lewis's death, we thought we'd invite Mark's compatriot Kathy Shaidle to offer her take on one of Lewis's most famous roles: On the occasion of Jerry Lewis's death, Mark Steyn looked back at the comedian's "beautifully detailed performance of a very general idea of late 20th-century celebrity," playing late-night talk show host Jerry Langford in Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy (1982): As Langford's first fateful encounter with stalker and stand-up comic manqué Rupert Pupkin (Robert De Niro) fitfully winds down [at the end of the opening scenes above], Steyn recalls: The limo pulls up smoothly to the ...

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Happy St-Jean-Baptiste Day to all our Quebec readers. It was a somewhat truncated se'nnight at SteynOnline, but, in case you missed it, here's how it looked to Mark:

~The week began with a rare outbreak of World Cup fever at SteynOnline, as Mark celebrated the all-time great footie anthem.

~On Monday Steyn pondered how...

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If you missed our livestream Clubland Q&A earlier today, here's the action replay. Simply click above and settle back for an hour of my answers to questions from Mark Steyn Club members around the planet. On today's show we chewed over, among other topics, hard borders and soft Brexits, the Inspector General's report on the Hillary fix, Hamiltonian immigrants, chaste lawyers, and Italian bedfellows. As our second year gets underway, I thank again those Steyn Club members who've kept me in the game through what was the worst twelve months of my professional life. I shall never forget that, and I look forward to meeting some of you at least on our inaugural Mark Steyn Club Cruise this September. If you're not yet a Club member but you're ...

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Bertolt Brecht's advice, as taken up by the new Germany, and France, and Britain...

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Several old friends from Steyn shows past have been making headlines in recent days, so, if you've missed these interviews, we thought you might enjoy catching up. First up is Lindsay Shepherd...

Next is Lionel Shriver, the American novelist who...

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Michael E Mann's defamation suit against me enters its sixth year in the constipated bowels of DC justice...

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The Corner post that launched a lawsuit...

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As I mentioned on yesterday's Clubland Q&A, I have to take off for a few weeks to remote parts in order to crack the back of a project that's been on hold for fifteen months because Cary Katz and CRTV were suing me for $10 million. (They lost.) At any rate, the coming weeks will take me somewhat off the grid WiFi-wise, and that can't be helped because it's a very small window of opportunity. Katz and CRTV have re-sued me in multiple jurisdictions, this time for a combined $20 million. (For the benefit of the many lawyers among our readership, we've got links to the various suits here.) So, before we get into the usual sclerotic folderol of American "justice" with its scheduling conferences to schedule next month's scheduling conference, ...

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Cary Katz's four Steyn suits (and counting)

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The all-time greatest World Cup anthem

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Sail with Steyn and his special guests...

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Amidst the calls for Trump staffers to be harassed at restaurants, gas stations and department stores, we thought it a good time to look back at what Mark has said about the left's preference not for winning the debate but for shutting down the debate - by any means necessary.

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A case that should never have been brought finally ends.

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Welcome to the concluding episode of our latest Tale for Our Time - and the launch of our second year of audio adventures. We've gone back to the writer we started with - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...

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Steyn on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, F Scott Fitzgerald Anthony Hope, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson and H G Wells

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with Mark and his guests Bananarama, Mike Batt, Don Black, Simon Climie, Christopher Cross, The Human League, Julio Iglesias, Lulu, Artie Shaw, Paul Simon, Jule Styne and Andy Williams (plus bonus appearance by Ted Cruz)

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Mark celebrates a classic love poem

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