Programming note: Tonight, Monday, I'll be back here at SteynOnline with Part Four of our seventy-eighth Tale for Our Time, Hugo Bettauer's pertinent satire of 1922 - The City without Jews.
To start the week, a brisk tour of the passing scene:
~Minneapolis? Hard to improve on this headline from The Conservative Woman:
Naive white liberals are protecting illegal immigrants who hate them
Indeed. It's Queers for Palestine all the way down.
Or, in this case, Crap Trannies for Somali Daycares (warning: somewhat limited vocabulary):
BREAKING - It's been revealed Minneapolis's "Antifa General," AKA Kyle Wagner, who recently called for guns to be used against the federal government, is a cross-dresser who really enjoys dresses. pic.twitter.com/dIS0Ur9UI0
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) January 25, 2026
Half of your neighbours are anxious to bottom for the new tops. I speak mostly metaphorically - for the moment.
~Five years ago today, our friend Charlotte Wright became a widow in her early thirties:
It's hard to believe it's been five years since you left us. Every day feels wrong, as if time should not have moved on—because it still feels like yesterday. I miss the joy we shared, the laughter that filled our home, and how your unwavering support calmed my every emotion. You... pic.twitter.com/5MqWMMfADp
— Charlotte Wright Vaccine Widow (@MrsCharWright) January 26, 2026
Charlotte and Vikki Spit were the first victims of the Covid vaccine to appear on The Mark Steyn Show. Charlotte was doubly injured - first by Johnson's corrupt regime killing the love of her life; then by the "social media" cartel presuming to deny the reality of her widowhood. Eventually, she became one of the first vax victims to receive compensation from the government - a derisory amount, less than HMG spends on the average dinghy-borne Somali sex-fiend, but sufficient to ensure that Charlotte did not have to sell her house and was able to keep her young children in the same school - so that, having lost their father, they did not also have to lose their friends and their home.
The heartlessness of government during the Covid years was very striking. They're heartless still. Just a few days ago, Nadhim Zahawi, Reform UK's latest "star" signing, was on stage with Nigel Farage and sneeringly dismissed an inquiry about vaccine damage as a "really stupid question". Reform supporters are told that an incoming Farage ministry will need persons with Zahawi's "experience" - experience in this case meaning bollocksing every public policy you go anywhere near.
But what do they care? The talentless health minister who refused night after night to come on the show and respond to Charlotte is no longer Mr Sajid Jabbit but rather Sir Sajid Jabbit. It should be a minimum requirement of a so-called "Reform" ministry that no "Conservative" who served in government between 2010 and 2024 has any further place in public life.
~Trump's threat to impose one hundred per cent tariffs on Canada re Carney's Peking kowtow is prompting some furious northern back-pedaling:
Statement from the Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, President of the King's Privy Council for Canada and Minister responsible for Canada-U.S. Trade, Intergovernmental Affairs, Internal Trade and One Canadian Economy:
"As the Prime Minister said this week, Canada and the United States...
— Dominic LeBlanc (@DLeBlancNB) January 24, 2026
The President of the Privy Council's statement is perfectly correct - but only in a world where words have no meaning:
Using Mark Carneys own words against him. pic.twitter.com/Mw5vC365cy
— THE OFFICIAL RECORD (@SatireSquadHQ) January 25, 2026
~We had a very busy weekend at SteynOnline, beginning with the latest development in the decade-and-a-half Mann vs Steyn case. Our weekend music show introduced our brand new Classical Corner and heard what it's like to audition for Cole Porter, while Rick McGinnis's Saturday movie date plumped for Martin Scorsese After Hours. Sunday brought Part Twenty-One of our special twentieth-anniversary audio serialisation of my highly prescient demographic bestseller, America Alone, and our Song of the Week celebrated Australia Day. Our marquee presentation was the launch of our latest Tale for Our Time, The City without Jews by Hugo Bettauer: Click for Part One, Part Two and Part Three. Part Four airs tonight at SteynOnline.
If you were too busy this weekend taking Francis Fukyama seriously, we hope you'll want to check out one or three of the foregoing as a new week begins.