On November 12, 2025 at 2:57 pm, Chris Davies wrote:
Mark,
I continue to pray for an uptick in your health as sharp as Michael Mann's hockey stick.
On the subject of washed up anachronisms, the BBC remains insouciant at the prospect of a $1Bn legal battle with Donald Trump, despite retaining their moniker as the world's number 1 (fake) news service.
They are bang to rights this time after a bit of cut and paste in the video editing department and I sincerely hope this is the beginning of the end of our morally bankrupt public broadcaster.
Along with ITV being the subject of a takeover by Comcast, which will further dilute the woke news output in the UK and the relentless rise of independent news media outlets such as Dan Wootton, is this the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning for the UK's fake news peddlers?
Keep well Mark.
Mark,
On November 12, 2025 at 2:57 pm, Alison Castellina wrote:
Just a point - I have a TV set to watch Amazon Prime films, but no TV licence so it is a tax on watching, not on owning a TV.. I admire your phrase "invincible smugness" as an accurate description of the BBC, but even I was surprised by the defiance of the BBC's DG Tim Davie saying "We are the very best of society". That sound kind of religious to me. Do you think the BBC has some of the aspects of a cult and if so, how did that develop? (A 'cult' requires fanaticism, total loyalty, variable sets of beliefs depending on the hierarchy, a them v us culture, cancellation of outsiders/leavers, outsiders seen as 'evil', control freakery and a sense of being 'the elect').
On November 12, 2025 at 2:57 pm, Terry Sautter wrote:
It will be fun to see the BBC pay for a wing of the Donald J Trump Presidential Library... or maybe the giant Arch de Trump welcoming the motoring public to Washington DC.
On November 12, 2025 at 2:58 pm, JC of Weston-super-Mare wrote:
Hi Mark,
There's a vacancy at the top of the BBC. The UK has had a Canadian as Governor of the Bank of England & that worked out well, so why not a niche Canadian as Director General of the Beeb?
What say ye?
Best regards
John Creasey
On November 12, 2025 at 2:58 pm, Jamie Marsh wrote:
Hi Mark, my prayers for you on a speedy recovery.
On an interview with Laura Ingraham yesterday, Trump said we need more foreign workers. Ingraham pushed back, saying, "We have plenty of talented people here." Trump flatly disagreed: "No, you don't."
Trump is also on the record saying we need illegal workers for Big Ag, Big Leisure, and construction. Also that we have to let in hundreds of thousands of Chinese nationals into our colleges to keep them afloat.
Reagan gets a hard time for the four million illegals he gave amnesty to. At current rates, assuming 50 million illegals are here now, maybe ten million of those will be deported or leave voluntarily by the end of Trump's term. Ten times the number Reagan let stay.
I voted for Trump three times, but at what point does he become a part of the problem rather than the solution?
On November 12, 2025 at 2:59 pm, Queen of the Jungle wrote:
Dear Mark- as always, best wishes for your good health and prosperity.
If there is one topic that which really needs to be covered today, it is the genocidal slaughter of the Ostriches who lived at the Universal Ostrich Farm in BC Canada. This unnecessary massacre was so egregious and heartbreaking that I am surprised you haven't commented about it yet that I know of. The ostrich owners fought to save their birds and lost to the rotten, stinking Government.
Over the weekend, Canada culled around 400 ostriches in the name of "preventing bird flu." The story the government sold was: we're protecting the food supply. But if you look closer, it's clear this was never about public health and welfare- it was another power grab by the rotten disgusting Canadian government.
The health authorities didn't even bother to do their due diligence. Out of all the birds that died last year, they only did two autopsies. That's all it took to confirm their narrative. The rest were written off as "virus-related" without proof. Based on a false theory and malice, these human filth destroyed hundreds of healthy animals and devastated a farm family's livelihood.
Once they had the results they wanted, the conclusion was already written: declare "bird flu," kill all these beautiful birds then declare that they had saved the world from the latest virus.
The behavior of the RCMP Gestapo was even worse than their actions during the Trucker debacle. This was cold blooded killing that included cutting off their heads, mutilation and firing hundreds of rounds of bullets into a flock of gentle terrified animals who were part of the farm family.
I sincerely hope you will have time to speak on this today. Many thanks.
On November 12, 2025 at 3:02 pm, John Barrett wrote:
Hello Mark,
Why did the Irish people just elect, by a wide margin, a left-wing pro-immigration President?
We continue to hope and pray for your recovery to better health.
John
On November 12, 2025 at 3:04 pm, Robert Bridges wrote:
Is the only course for the Democrat party ... going hard Left? Rep. Omar has demanded that the US deport the Somalis from Minnesota.. that is the other tribe that chose to vote for the present (Jewish) mayor of Minneapolis. Yes, there are two distinct tribes of Somalis in Minnesotastan and they don't mix. Schumer has pulled a Schumer too far. Can AOC be too far behind or now tool far ahead?
On November 12, 2025 at 3:07 pm, Charles Perts wrote:
Mark,
It is my contention that the real poverty in America is not material, but rather a poverty of spirit. By that I mean not just in the religious sense, but also more. Cultural confidence replaced by suicidal empathy. The 'can do' attitude replaced by a culture of victimhood. Alcoholics Anonymous replaced by free Narcan stations. Reliance on the church, family and community replaced by the expectation that the government should fix everyone's problems. I'm sure you can express this much better than I can. Would you, please?
Thank you for your heroic efforts, you are truly an inspiration. We pray for your health and happiness!
On November 12, 2025 at 3:07 pm, Scott Schertzer wrote:
Dear Mark:
As I post, the House has yet to vote on reopening the government, but it seems a fait accompli. The left seems very angry that the poor will once again receive their food stamps, air traffic will return to normal (or what passes for normal these days) and everyone else they've made dependent on Uncle Sam lo these many decades will again be feeding at the trough. I would appreciate your opinion as to why the party of government is so upset to see the spigot turned back on.
Sincerely,
Scott Schertzer
Miami Beach
P.S. If the French doctors haven't been able to stabilize you, try the French nurses.
On November 12, 2025 at 3:07 pm, Drew Weber wrote:
Hello Mark,
During the Shutdown, plenty of banter on Capitol Hill about making healthcare affordable. However, as is the case with government, the dialog has little to do with controlling costs, but rather how much government will spend to subsidize recipients. Money will come from taxes and borrowing.
Governments account for one-half of the $5 trillion spent on healthcare in the USA. Not surprising that costs have risen well above inflation.
Many are quick to finger-point towards the other guy getting government "handouts" for healthcare. Actually, nearly all Americans are in on the take.
Medicaid and CHIP, welfare programs for the needy now cover 80 million people with average spend of $9,000 per person. Most of the 66 million people receiving Medicare Part B (out-patient) and Part D (drugs) or Part C (advantage plans) receive a subsidy of 75% of the cost or about $7,000. Note, the recipients did not pay in advance for these benefits as payroll taxes were never directed to cover Parts B and D. Subsidies for the 11 million people covered by Obamacare are at least as much. Others who receive non-taxed employer-provided health insurance enjoy tax breaks of $2,000 or more.
Yes, insurance companies are players in this game, however just one of many as their administrative costs and profits account for just 6% of healthcare spending.
High costs of healthcare are due to salaries, services, products and overhead that are propped up by ever increasing dollars from government spending. Various factions in the healthcare industry will resist any efforts to rein in their attractive compensations and revenues. The government will keep writing checks, so nothing will really change.
On November 12, 2025 at 3:09 pm, Bill Bradshaw wrote:
Mark,
Is there a Steyn memoir or autobiography out there somewhere? If not you ought to write one. For example how did you go from Montreal teenager to BBC disc jockey? You know a lot of songwriters but I've never heard you mention Burt Bachrach or Carole Bayer Sager. Any good stories about those two?
Take care, Bill
On November 12, 2025 at 3:10 pm, eaglepatriotminuteman1776 wrote:
Dear Mr. Steyn,
I am happy to say that I have renewed my membership and look forward to hearing your commentary for the duration.
That being said, I have taken it upon myself at law school to declare war on the United States Constitution and the religious veneration Americans have for that worthless piece of parchment. My argument is that when your nation's governing law enables endless war, prevents mass deportations, or allows Janet Reno to save children from being molested by burning them alive, then your Constitution is the problem. Americans will not take back their nation until they discard this document and begin exercising real power against the Democrat Party and hostile minority groups.
Personally, I cannot understand why Americans have this stupid fetish for a piece of paper. Normal people in normal countries have a deep love for the nation and not its constitution. Russians are proud to be a nation of Russians, Poles are proud to be a nation of Poles, and Americans are proud to be a nation of "ideas" under God the Father, God the Son, and God the Constitution. I can't recall any Englishman prostrating himself before the Magna Carta.
The Constitution is not as robust as Mark Levin would have you believe. I take the piss out of that piece of crap document all the time and everyone clutches their pearls and carps. Oh the horror! The inability to laugh and make fun of the Constitution makes it weak. I bet Punch, or its 18th Century equivalent, made sport of Lord North and King George during the American rebellion. No where in England or the rest of the Realm did anyone act like these jokes, like King George the Mad and King George the Fat, would collapse the Empire and Monarchy; that being because, before the modern era, the British Empire and Monarchy were robust, secure, and confident institutions. If a monarchy can survive having Beastly Bertie as King, it can survive anything.
The American Constitutionalists, Republicans, Democrats, law professors, lawyers, and judges lack that confidence, which is why there is no room to criticize the foundational rot at the heart of the nation, which is its Constitution. They know this, which is why you had better not dare laugh at it.
If I ever become president or dictator, my first act will be to burn the Constitution on live television. God damned the Constitution.
Yours Faithfully
William Fleishman
On November 12, 2025 at 3:13 pm, Stefan Bucek wrote:
Good day, Mark! Having just commemorated Veterns' Day, I would appreciate hearing your comments on the origin and meaning of the old war song, "It's a Long Way to Tipperary." Is it actually a song about a brothel, as I have heard suggested? God bless you, Mark, and all our brave soldiers!
On November 12, 2025 at 3:15 pm, sanfraned wrote:
Mark Hope your feeling better.I hope my question does not destabilize your stabilizing treatment as it has me do you recall when the Canadian coach was banished from the airwaves for suggesting that newly minted Canadiens did not want to buy poppies ,Seems to me that if you are moving to a new culture you should adapt some of the customs willingly.
On November 12, 2025 at 3:18 pm, Kristina S. wrote:
Dear Mark,
I hope all is well in your neck of the woods.
Now, onto the business at hand. With the adroit comedic timing of a geriatric wanker losing his false teeth into a glass of prune juice, our old friend John Cleese published a canard so vile it has garnered the ire of thousands of patriotic veterans who have yet to square his typical acidic wit with Mr. Cleese's apparent career-ending final act of a once creative mind who became just another pathetic sod on the left sickened with anti-Trump derangement syndrome. Here is what Mr. Cleese publish on Armistice/ Veteran's Day: "Touching ceremony at the tomb of the Unknown Loser," referring to the bollocks the left claims President Trump uttered during an attempt to pay his respects at the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris, France, a story written by Jeffrey Goldberg on Sept. 3, 2020, published in the Atlantic, nearly two years after the apparent incident occurred.
Given the revelations that the BBC was caught selectively editing Trump's speech on January 6, 2021, calls their integrity into question, much like that of the once vaunted 60Minutes that my father and I watched religiously every Sunday evening when Andy Rooney still gave his wry commentaries on the state of current events. Trump has certainly driven so many once indefatigable reporters into seething tempests of disdain and impetuousness.
On November 12, 2025 at 3:20 pm, April L. wrote:
Hi Mark!
I'm avoiding any topic that could cause undue stress. Have you ever discussed the creator or backstory of a song called (as far as I know) "The Baggage Coach Ahead"? In my childhood it was played on the piano at family gatherings and all the old folks sang the maudlin lyrics while drinking heavily. The only other knowledge I have of the song is from when John Mellencamp's grandmother sang the opening lines of what was listed as "Grandma's Song" on his "Scarecrow" album.
On November 12, 2025 at 3:23 pm, Every Man Jack of Us wrote:
What to make of the latest sinister talk of the EU further restricting social media, something the British government has already shown itself to be very keen to do? We in the West were very smug when we chastised the Soviets for trying to block Radio Free Europe. The totalitarian itch is catching, it seems.
On November 12, 2025 at 3:26 pm, Jeff Estes wrote:
Hi Mark,
With all the Reform Uk noise and the newly butched-up Nigel Farage, do you see any hope for the Uk to ever remigrate their eastern subjects?
Hope your health is improving for the holidays; we need a new Sunday Video Poem.
Jeff
On November 12, 2025 at 3:29 pm, Lenny Cooperman wrote:
Hi Mark,
I hope your health has improved or, to use familiar word, at least "stabilized."
Could you comment specifically on the likelihood of Britain disintegrating into its four constituent states, and more broadly on the possibility of a similar denouement taking place in the United States? Best wishes, Lenny
On November 12, 2025 at 3:31 pm, OLGA from Arizona wrote:
The big story du jour seems to be Poland's
Independence Day festivities. I have many
questions, since Poland does tend to
oscillate between perfectly sensible &
stark raving with some regularity.
Will this phase be more latter or former ~
or, like in so many other places ~ simultaneously
both?
On November 12, 2025 at 3:34 pm, Adrian Gaty wrote:
Dear Mark, you wrote this week about how European Christendom doomed itself by welcoming millions of Muslims. As you've written often before, of course, the problem is that Christendom gave up on Christianity. Islam adores a vacuum. I was so sad to see the great Ezra Levant call VP Vance a groyper last week for admitting he hopes his agnostic wife will one day also find a home in the church. How do we conservatives better convince our non-Christian allies that the only way for Judaism and secular liberalism to flourish is in Christendom 2.0? That this isn't hatred or antisemitism, but pro-Americanism? Time for an Irving Berlin biopic, starting in a Russian shtetl and finishing with a stirring rendition of White Christmas?
On November 12, 2025 at 3:38 pm, J B McL wrote:
When Dr. Mann was testifying in the trial, he didn't sound very sciencey. Now his latest book he has once again thanked the Spanier fellow, which he claimed was an oversight when it was included after Spanier being disgraced. What are the chances that Dr. Mann doesn't even write his own books?
On November 12, 2025 at 3:40 pm, Teresa Maupin wrote:
"The case was permitted to proceed in the District of Columbia because, by being published in a magazine that is available for purchase in DC, I was deemed to be "doing business" within the jurisdiction." Ugh! Here's hoping the miserable BBC is held to the same miserable standard you were subjected to. KARMA is a you-know-what.
On November 12, 2025 at 3:43 pm, David Taylor wrote:
Dear Mark,
I've been aware of Tucker Carlson since his bow-tied PBS stints; stunned but pleased when Tucker was eventually given the reigns of his own FoxNews gig. And then, my god, his meteoric rise. And who could not help but welcome the numerous guest appearances of the one and only, Mark Steyn.
Post-FoxNews, Carlson, within a much more free-flowing independent platform, has been forthcoming about his personal dealings with alcoholism and opioid addiction and his, say, more hedonistic lifestyle, in general, that most of us were unaware of––as he was, as many recall, the jovial conservative-libertarian TV warrior with the tousled hair set upon his signature preppy bow-tie.
Unfortunately, as with many former addictive personalities, it seems (am I wrong?), Tucker Carlson has now launched himself within the last year as a rabid Christian zealot. There isn't an interview that passes without Tucker blurting some loud non sequitur about Jesus or God or the Holy Spirit...along the lines of: "...yeah...I mean EVERYONE knows God is real, RIGHT?!!" or "...I don't believe in killing because I'm a Christian!" Or some other crackpot strip mall liturgy.
Just the other day I read that Tucker Carlson spoke to Megyn Kelly––and also confided to Alex Jones––about his battle with high-caliber demon possession––and having the claw marks to prove it. So from Jesus and demons and UFOs and space aliens and Nick Fuentes and from the Israel lobby and 'The Jews' and casting Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz and Mark Levin monstrously onto the ash heap (okay, no loss) and possible Qatar-funding and Humus-eating inferences at the Kirk Memorial and peddling nicotine and caffeine pouches...what is up with this dude? (Not to mention while all this Charlie Kirk/Israel squabbling was going on...Islamists took control in NYC and VA and swelled their political ranks in Michigan, Minneapolis and Texas.)
My take: Thank goodness for Mark Steyn. And also for the late Christopher Hitchens who warned of: the "jug-eared, Islamist" Prince Charles, the atomization of England and of the pious and pathetic Christians who would be the first ones "holding open the gates for the barbarians."
Cordially,
DT
On November 12, 2025 at 3:45 pm, Ilene Heller wrote:
Do you think J.D. Vance & Erika Kirk can put a lid on the vile hatred being enabled by Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, etc. that is polluting political conservatism? Can they do what Bill Buckley did with Pat Buchanan & the Birchers? Or will people like Nick Fuentes be allowed to harm the Republican party the way the DSA is harming the Democratic party?
On November 12, 2025 at 3:47 pm, Fred Jones wrote:
Mark:
Grateful we've got you for at least one more hour of live Q&A ... but for the sake of Western Civ, we hope we get you for many more years to come to help explain our civilizational collapse in humorous terms.
I'm truly perplexed by the current fight between pro Israel and anti Israel voices within the conservative movement. I understand the MAGA fear of foreign entanglements and loathing of foreign aid, but many people of faith within MAGA and beyond believe Israel has a spiritual significance that reveals one's own standing by how one treats this chosen land (and people).
Am I to believe Tucker, Candace, Fuentes, et al are raving anti-semites that should be banned from our movement to keep it righteous and electorally viable, or should I question the fidelity to MAGA of those continuing to push for a robust defense of Israel, regardless of that small nation's flaws and our nation's own needs?
Successful politics is about addition not division. But this growing rift seems irreconcilable, forcing us common men and women of the conservative/MAGA movement to make a choice. What's your thoughts, given your close relations and dealings to many of the key players in this familial dispute?
On November 12, 2025 at 3:51 pm, Doug Cole wrote:
Hello Mark. I greatly appreciate your voice of reason in a world gone mad. Speaking of the madness, is there any update on that bloviating rodent who was the unfortunate recipient of a mean look while shopping at Wegman's Food Market? I find him so abhorrent that even mentioning his name makes me spit up a little in the back of my throat. But like Proverbs says, "As a dog return to its vomit, so fools repeat their folly". Which means Mr. Hockey Stick has likely learned nothing from any of this.
PS: Be careful out there. The weather is going to kill us all if the left doesn't do it first!
On November 12, 2025 at 3:54 pm, Mark Jensen wrote:
Dear Mr. Steyn,
I'm extra grateful to be hearing your voice once again, since your health has been so oncooperative! Much thanks to God and your team for keeping you here! And may your robustness return post-haste!
In regards to the BOOB, er...BEEB, can you see it becoming defunct? It's already made itself laughably irrelevant and 180 degrees out of phase with truth or reality, so could it also be on the verge of collapse? Like every other leftist 'bastion', perhaps it'll fall like China's Honky Bridge...
And, about that fax machine, could Steynonline produce one with your imprimatur on it? Many of us would gladly pay for such a thing! 'The Steyn-on-fax Machine' might be your next bestseller!
Cheers, good sir. God bless you.
Mark N Jensen
On November 12, 2025 at 3:56 pm, Sue Sims wrote:
Re. the BBC fracas: I'm puzzled by the way in which a broadcaster that appears to me to be heavily left-leaning strikes many people as massively right-wing. A couple of the comments I've seen: BBC is "stuffed with right-wing journalists" and "the BBC is bent over backwards to support Israel and the genocidal activities of the IDF". How can both sides be so convinced that the same institution is simultaneously hugely left and massively right? The Beeb itself concludes (smugly) that they must be nicely balanced, but no one believes that except the BBC. Can you explain this paradox?
On November 12, 2025 at 3:59 pm, Greg Warren wrote:
So the BBC has 77 milloon viewers in the US, does it? Well, hundreds of men loved Messalina, but she was still a wh*re.
On November 12, 2025 at 4:02 pm, Toby Pilling wrote:
How many men would cancel their BBC licence fee today, if it wasn't for their wives wanting to watch Strictly?
On November 12, 2025 at 4:05 pm, Michael Regan wrote:
Hi Mark,
I was speaking with a friend who works in finance here in the US, and does some work in Europe. I asked him what he and his colleagues think of the immigration problem in Europe and how it affects business. He said it's a non issue and "doesn't move the needle". What are your thoughts on this response?
On November 12, 2025 at 4:07 pm, Doug Auble wrote:
Sir, your writing is always so good that I would like you to do more. If possible? I have worried about your health during these shows. You are a great source of information. I don't want to upset you with a stupid political question that you have already addressed in the past. My question is, "Why do you choose to put up with the stress?" I didn't travel the world. I worked with my hands making things from metal. You let me know about many things I would never have known. Thanks for that! PS, I love your humor and cherished the lessons from world history. Peace, Doug, from Northern Ohio
On November 12, 2025 at 4:10 pm, OLGA from Arizona wrote:
Several states have passed laws banning
all chi-com real estate purchases. It's a
good start, but now they need to reclaim
all current holdings, which, I suspect,
might be a trickier row to hoe.
On November 12, 2025 at 4:12 pm, Brutchop wrote:
The Chinese own an adult medical daycare center near Ft. Detrick where the Internet is blacked out. It's underwritten by Medicaid. Last time I visited most employees were Chinese and a large portion of the patients were immigrants, many non-English speakers. It was hard to believe the business broke even so few old folks were enrolled.
On November 12, 2025 at 4:14 pm, Jay Barney wrote:
"In 100 years we've gone from teaching Greek and Latin in high school to teaching remedial English in college." - Anonymous Facebook poster who is probably not a unionized public school teacher.
On November 12, 2025 at 4:15 pm, OLGA from Arizona wrote:
The ostriches were officially offered refuge
across the border. I was very surprised no
one organized an underground railroad to
ferry them into the US.
