Yes, it's me! Mark Steyn of that ilk - back off my deathbed for another hour of questions from Mark Steyn Club members around the planet. We start at 3pm North American Eastern - which, across the Atlantic, is back to its usual hour: 8pm in the British Isles and 9pm in western and central Europe.
Lots going on in the world, but today's show will likely be a special Two Points Up In Iowa! edition analysing all the great news from Tuesday's mid-terms for the mid-terms:
Zohran Mamdani made a pledge to New Yorkers in Arabic - here's what it means
It means: If he can make it there, you should try making it to anywhere else while you still can. For those who thought Curtis Sliwa would be the spoiler, the Ugandan Twelver beat both Sliwa and the mass-murdering sex-fiend Cuomo combined, and then some.
Still, if you are heading for the hills, probably best to eschew Virginia, where the guy who fantasises about killing your kids is the state's new chief law-enforcement official.
And probably best to skip Maine, where the kind of people who insist that Elon Musk waving his arm is a Nazi salute are happy to vote for a guy with an actual Nazi death's-head tattoo smack in the centre of his chest.
The usual experts are happy to argue that it's not such a bad night for the GOP because these were all Democrat races to lose. But it's more basic than that: it's not about parties; it's about the country. If, like me, you're a demography bore, the results in New York and Virginia aren't surprising: thanks to a coalition of leftie sentimentalists, the government payroll and post-1965 immigration, one's a post-American city and the other's a post-American state. But keep waving that US Constitution! Even if stores only seem to be selling the Arabic version.
I'm happy to take questions on whatever tickles your fancy. For the moment you can listen to our show live from almost anywhere you chance to be on this turbulent earth. Starting next week, in compliance with Cruella von der Leyen and the European Commission, Clubland Q&A will be distributed exclusively by fax machine. So install yours today!
Membership of The Mark Steyn Club is required only if you wish to ask a question. We love to hear from brand new members, and especially appreciate those who are having such a grand time around these parts that they've signed up a chum for a Steyn Club Gift Membership. Among the additions to our ranks in recent days are newbies from around the planet - from Pittsburgh to Paris, Toronto to Tokyo, Sydney to Southend-on-Sea. If you've joined this week either for a full year or a see-how-it-goes experimental quarter, do shoot me a head-scratcher for today's show.
But, if you're not interested in joining, no worries, as they say in Oz: We seek no unwilling members - and as always the show is free to listen to, so we hope you'll want to tune in. So see you back here at 3pm North American Eastern - which is, for this week only, 8pm in London and Dublin, 9pm in Paris and Berlin, 10pm in Kiev and Jerusalem; 11pm in Moscow and Riyadh; half-past-eleven in Teheran; 1.45am in Kathmandu; 4am in Singapore and Honkers (sorry about that); 7am in Sydney and Melbourne; 9am in Auckland, and an even more civilised hour for the kippers and kedgeree in His Majesty's Dominions eastward across the Pacific, where you're so far ahead Michael E Mann's probably lost his appeal by now...
