Greetings one and all, and thanks for coming back to SteynOnline for another batch of Laura's Links. I know I usually make some kind of a crack every week about what a crazy week it was, but this past week kind of takes the cake. A close contact from Israel started texting me out of the blue at about 8:00 PM, which was 3:00 AM Israel time. I asked if everything was OK and the reply was "I figured I would text you because I think Israel is attacking Iran". From that moment on, Mr. C and I were pretty much glued to the TV. Ironically, that night, my son's Persian overnight nurse was on duty that night. When she came to the door, I said "did you hear", and she said no, what. I started to fill her in and she said "oh, yes, thank you Netanyahu" ...

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Programming note: Tomorrow, Wednesday, I hope to be back behind the microphone taking questions from Mark Steyn Club members around the world at 3pm North American Eastern (8pm British Summer Time) for our latest Clubland Q&A. Hope you can swing by. ~So much for the G7. The war? Well, strange as it may seem on the 24/7 hamster wheel, my view hasn't changed since last week: I am in favour of Israel's victory over Iran - just as the region's Sunni monarchies are. However, I am opposed to any direct American participation because the United States is the most incompetent warmonger on the planet. If that comes as news, well, you haven't been paying attention - since VJ Day. Hilarious headline in today's Spectator: Why is the US so reluctant ...

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The incentivising of political violence

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This week Rick changes up his regular movie review for a documentary on Kentucky coal miners, released in 1977. Readers will note the eerie echoes of the past today...

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Lindsey Graham, member of the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, is panting like Jeffrey Toobin on a Zoom call...

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Laura Rosen Cohen rounds up the internet...

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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 covered a range of topics from "far right" fainthearts to Mike Johnson's travel plans...

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

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Steyn and Simberg respond to Mann's demand that he and his lying lawyers should not have to pay sanctions...

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The pilot programme for civilisational suicide...

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In today's segment Mark catches up with Steyn Show favourites Jules Serkin and Naomi Wolf. Jules, a BBC Radio presenter, fell victim to the AstraZeneca vaccine. Yet, even when one of their own suffered, members of her profession stayed silent. Naomi Wolf, at great personal cost, unveiled disturbing information re the effects of the vaccine...

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Steyn talks to Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer about Irish anti-Semitism...

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As part of The Mark Steyn Club's eighth-anniversary observances, welcome to the third brand new video edition of The Mark Steyn Show. Today's episode was filmed live on the Mark Steyn Iberian Cruise, and discusses the differences between Trump 45 and Trump 47...

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Who owes one million dollars now?

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A GB News reunion on the latest Mark Steyn Show Dan Wootton, Laurence Fox and Naomi Wolf...

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Today's episode was filmed live on the Mark Steyn Iberian Cruise with three of our special guests: Sammy Woodhouse, Samantha Smith and Allison Pearson...

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There's really only one song with which we could celebrate The Mark Steyn Club's eighth anniversary...

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Today is the eighth birthday of The Mark Steyn Club, launched on May 6th 2017. In honour of the occasion, the Supreme Court of Minnesota has decided to legalise women perambulating topless through the streets...

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One of the most popular features of Tales for Our Time has been the music Mark chooses to accompany each story. So here, after many requests, is a sampler of the accompanying melodies from some of our tales...

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Disgraceful scenes on the streets of Montreal...

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Programming note: Mark will be back in audio on Friday with the latest entry to our series of audio adventures, Tales for Our Time. Happy Father's Day to you and yours. We have some Father's Day moments from The Mark Steyn Show here, and we close out the day with a song for those about to qualify for the category. I miss my dad more and more as the years go by. This Song for the Season is one he used to like singing - mostly the "My boy Bill" bit, because it all gets a little more complicated after that. It's more than a song, but a dramatic soliloquy on imminent fatherhood. This essay is adapted from my book A Song for the Season: I wonder what he'll think of meI guess he'll call meThe old manI guess he'll think I can lickEv'ry other ...

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Happy Father's Day to all our listeners around the world. This special audio edition of The Mark Steyn Show presents a few Father's Day moments down the years from the various iterations of our show, featuring poems, songs and reminiscences on the theme, by everybody from Dame Vera Lynn to a neighbour of Mark's in New Hampshire. Click above to listen. The Mark Steyn Show is a special production of The Mark Steyn Club. If you prefer to read your radio shows, Steyn Club members can find the transcripts here. For those members interested in using their personal podcast players to listen to the Steyn Show or our series of audio adventures Tales for our Time, we have an RSS feed here (and instructions here). ...

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On this week's episode of Mark Steyn on the Town, we remember a fine songwriter, celebrate the centennial of a great American standard, and enjoy the windy Sinatra. To listen to the programme, simply click here and log-in. ~Thank you for your kind comments about last week's edition. From Fran, a First Weekend Founding Member of The Mark Steyn Club who's just re-upped for a ninth year: This is an out of the park fantastic show, Mark. You're the best. I'm going to have a great and wonderful summer with months of sizzling heat listening to this over and over, even if the temps don't soar into the three digits. Michael Smith, a Maryland Steyn Clubber, says: Thank you Mark for this fine episode and a very happy birthday Nancy Sinatra! Lucky ...

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Programming note: Tomorrow, Saturday, please join me for another edition of my Serenade Radio weekend music show, Mark Steyn on the Town. The fun starts at 5pm British Summer Time - which is 6pm in Western Europe and 12 noon North American Eastern. You can listen from almost anywhere on the planet by clicking the button at top right here. ~Ahead of that, welcome to the seventy-first audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time. As we begin our ninth season, we've built a spectacular archive that runs the gamut from A to Z ...well, not quite, but certainly A to W - Jane Austen to P G Wodehouse. The newest addition to our collection is a short story from 1948 written by Fredric Brown (whom I discuss in my introduction) and with a ...

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Mark tells the story of a song that's a blast of pure joy, but emerged from an unlikely corner of history...

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On this week's episode of Mark Steyn On the Town, we celebrate Georges Bizet and Nancy Sinatra. Plus: a cavalcade of Non-Stop Number Ones, and a rare touch of reggae...

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A rerun of a Tale for Our Time first aired almost a decade ago: Belling the Cat by Rudyard Kipling...

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Welcome to the conclusion of our eighth-birthday Tale for Our Time: Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K Jerome...

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Part Eighteen of Jerome K Jerome's comic romp Three Men on the Bummel, now hurtling - or digressing - towards its thrilling finale...

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Episode Fifteen of Mark's latest Tale for Our Time, Jerome K Jerome's Three Men on the Bummel...

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Episode Twelve of Three Men on the Bummel...

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Part Eight of our birthday Tale. After a week of digressions, our trio finally arrive in Germany, to begin digressing more Germanically...

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Part Four of Mark's serialisation of Jerome K Jerome's sequel to Three Men in a Boat - Three Men on the Bummel...

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Welcome to the seventieth audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time...

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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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