This week we welcomed new and renewing members from Arizona, Belgium, British Columbia, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Middlesex, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Queensland, Staffordshire, Sussex, Victoria, Virginia, Wiltshire, Wisconsin, Yorkshire and beyond...

Lynn from Washington state joining the first time writes:

Mark Steyn is an international treasure.

From Kent, renewing member Edward encourages:

Keep up the shining example of courage and integrity...

New member Julie from Manchester (UK, not the largest city in New Hampshire) says:

I have great respect for Mark Steyn's ability as a journalist and commentator. Thank you Mr. Steyn.

Thank you, Julie, Edward and Lynn!

If you are not yet a member of The Mark Steyn Club, we invite you to join today. The water's fine! And, speaking of water, it is also a great time to sign up for The Mark Steyn Cruise. We set sail in April with delightful stops in Spain and Portugal. We hope to see you on board!

Meanwhile, in case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked at SteynOnline...

~ Steyn's Song of the Week - "Love Me Tender" - was in honor of Elvis Presley who would have turned ninety years old this past week.

~ In our most read piece of the week, Mark shared his thoughts on Elon Musk's recent take on Nigel Farage aka "The Gatekeeper".

~ Tuesday marked the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attack at the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

~ Later we reported on a little movement in the Mann vs Steyn case. The court ruled that Michael E. Mann would finally be made to have some skin in the game - by having to pay $530k to Mark's co-defendant National Review. However, by the end of the week, Mann told the appeals court he would be appealing that too....

~ Midweek, Mark returned to the Clubland Q&A microphone fielding questions from Mark Steyn Club members around the world. This week's show focused on a variety of topics from England's gang-rape epidemic to the alleged resignation of Justin Trudeau.

~ It was "Morning in Canada" on Thursday as Laura Rosen Cohen mulled Trudeau's "resignation" in addition to her usual round-up of links from around the world including moments of human grace.

~ Mark's weekend notebook surveyed the state of the wildfires in California and the apparent complete breakdown in California, in addition to the continued abandonment of flood victims in North Carolina.

~ On Saturday, Mark reflected on Paedos and Policemen in England.

~ Later, in Mark Steyn on the Town on Serenade Radio, Mark celebrated a Broadway legend, an Italian composer and some Caribbean limbo. Plus: when Frank met Elvis! Replay available for club members here.

~ Finally, Rick McGinnis reviewed Myrna Loy and Irene Dunne in "Thirteen Women". He also remembered our dear friend Kathy Shaidle - who died four years ago this past week. We all miss her in our lives and reading her here at SteynOnline.

A new week begins later today with Steyn's Song of the Week at Serenade Radio at 12:30pm North American Eastern Time/ 5:30pm GMT.

It's a new year at SteynOnline and we are excited to start it along with our new and returning members...

John from Texas writes:

Thank you for another year of great programming! I enjoy On the Town, Live Q & A, Tales for Our Time as well as Mark's commentary on events as they unfold. Looking forward to 2025 with the MSC...

Another renewing member, Matthew from East Sussex, sums it up:

An excellent mélange of history, culture, politics, music and stories, well worth a membership fee. Keep up the fight.

Abraham from London explains why they have decided to join now:

...In appreciation for the many essential insights and plain facts you have provided me for years, and for the sheer enjoyment of your commentary, humour and, most importantly, your humanity, decency & unwavering commitments...

Welcome to John, Matthew, Abraham and all our new and renewing members this week from Belgium, Cheshire, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, London, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, North Yorkshire, New Zealand, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Washington (the state, not the diseased capital city where justice goes to die) West Dunbartonshire, Wisconsin and beyond...

If your membership has lapsed or you would like to sign up, we invite you to join today.

Meanwhile, in case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked at SteynOnline...

~ For our last Sunday song selection of 2024, we presented a special video edition dedicated to a great friend of The Mark Steyn Show, the late Russell Malone, who died in August far too young, from a heart attack while on tour in Tokyo.

In it, Mark asks the jackpot question in advance, "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?"

~ In Mark's Monday Notebook, our own undocumented anchorman weighed in on the "Indian Wars" that erupted over Christmas in a debate over H1B visas and immigration generally - legal or otherwise.

~ On New Year's Eve, we offered a sampler from our Café Imperial, where the patrons favour songs from our great Commonwealth family. This Café Imperial Hogmanay Special is a cavalcade of delights from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Samoa, and even Scotland.

Later, Mark shared his Serenade Radio edition of Steyn's Song of the Week: a tribute to Auld Lang Syne.

~ Midweek Mark hosted a New Year's Day edition of Clubland Q&A - where he fielded questions from Mark Steyn Club members around the world.

This week's show focused mainly on the terrible breaking news out of New Orleans - of fifteen dead Americans mown down by a man with an Isis flag in his truck and betrayed by a treasonous political class.

~ Laura's Links returned on Thursday with her round-up of links from around the world that concludes with some heartwarming moments of human grace.

~ Near the end of the week - as questions re England's epidemic of child gang-rape by Pakistani men bubbled to the surface on X (aka twitter) after Elon Musk* commented upon it - we republished Mark's in-depth video special from 2023 which includes interviews with victims Samantha Smith and Sammy Woodhouse as well as whistleblowers Brian Hobin and Maggie Oliver. On X, it has already had over half a million views.

* UPDATE from Elon:

The Reform Party needs a new leader. Farage doesn't have what it takes.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 5, 2025

~ This week's Mark Steyn on the Town aired on Serenade Radio on Saturday and is now available for club members to download here. In this first 2025 edition of Mark Steyn on the Town, Mark does a bit of first-footnoting with Bobby Darin and Buddy Greco, takes in the concession stands at the Zanzibar High Court, and tucks into his Galette des Rois. Plus there is a somewhat singular Sinatra Sextet.

~ On Saturday evening, Rick McGinnis observed:

The word fascist gets thrown around a lot now, almost inevitably without context or understanding, and mostly as a shorthand to tar an object of hatred and signal that the utterer is certain that the world is heading for a dark place, from which only their worldview offers salvation.

It would seem like a good time to stop and try to understand one of the only political movements to explicitly call itself fascist and remind ourselves what it really means...

His review of "The Conformist" (1970) is available for your enjoyment here.

A new week begins later today at Serenade Radio with Steyn's Song of the Week at 12:30pm North American Eastern Time/ 5:30pm Greenwich Mean Time.

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Did you forget someone on your Christmas list? If so, may we humbly suggest some great options that may be delivered to the Steyn fan among your loved ones in the work of moments:

* The Mark Steyn Club Gift Membership - set to deliver to your specifications and date via email or mail. (As a member of The Mark Steyn Club, your special discounted price for gift memberships is $150.)

* The Steyn Store Gift Certificate - Gift certificates start as low as $25.00 for the casual uncommitted dilletante and go up from there, for the hardcore reader who's got to have everything. They never expire, so the recipient can buy something now or wait for the latest addition to Mark's oeuvre to be published.

And, if you don't want to give the gift certificate to some ingrate nephew or surly sibling, you can always give it to yourself for a rainy day!

* The Mark Steyn 2025 Cruise - 7 nights - Spain and Portugal in April. This is also an excellent gift for yourself!

Check out all our Christmas offerings, including downloads of Mark's Christmas albums - at the Steyn Store. Enjoy the Season!

Our Boxing Day Blow-Out Sale is still in progress over at the Steyn Store. Please take advantage of these great deals, including $10 off various style shirts ($15 off for club members!!), up until midnight on New Year's Eve or while supplies last -whichever comes first.

It's also a great time to redeem that gift certificate you may have received for Christmas.

Meanwhile...

Renewing member Howard from Northamptonshire writes:

...really appreciate all Mark's output helping to make sense of the forces at play, and conveyed with humour to boot

Joshua, a new member from Illinois, hearkens back to the days on Rush:

Long time listener, first time caller.

From Down Under, another new member - Peter in Victoria notes:

longtime tailgater; about time I helped Mark tangibly

Renewing member Matthew from Western Australia simply adds:

Enjoying The Club

Finally, another returning member Judy from California:

Happy, Healthy (!) and Prosperous New Year to you, dear Mark

And, to you Judy! A warm welcome and wishes for a Happy New Year to all our new and returning members from British Columbia, California, Devon, Illinois, Italy, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Yorkshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin and beyond...

Members enjoy access to Mark's brilliant narrations of classic fiction - Tales for Our Time in addition to his own stories, including the Christmas tale "Plum Duff" - brought back to members in two parts this past week. (Part One and Part Two are here.)

Members may also access downloads of Mark's newish show on Serenade Radio - Mark Steyn on the Town. In this week's pre-Hogmanay edition, Mark bid farewell to the old year - a very old year, not 2024 but 1924. He also expanded upon Sinatra's very good years, and observed the stroke of midnight with some Danubian dances.

If your membership has lapsed or you would like to sign up, we invite you to join today.

In addition to Tales for Our Time and Mark Steyn on the Town, it was a very busy week at SteynOnline with various Christmas observances:

~ Don Black, Tim Rice and Dana joined Mark to ponder the British Christmas song...in Steyn's Song of the Week.

~ The lovely actress Siân Phillips narrated a special video Yuletide Tale for our Time: A Child's Christmas in Wales.

~ On Christmas Eve, Mark welcomed listeners to our annual presentation of ancient scripture and brand new versions of favourite carols, from various members of the Steyn Show musical family drawn from the worlds of folk, jazz, rock, opera plus a bevy of Top Five pop stars from across the last half-century: Christmas Eve Lessons and Carols.

~ On Christmas Day with Mark and Friends, we rounded up all things Christmas for your viewing and listening pleasure.

Also...

~ Mark's most read piece of the week: The Depravity of Diversity reflected on the shocking immolation of an innocent woman on the New York Subway allegedly at the hands of someone who should not have even been in the country.

~ In another Diversity Deathwatch Update, Mark analyzed the analyst involved in the most recent Christmas market massacre in Germany.

~ Laura Rosen Cohen delivered Christmas/Chanukah/Boxing Day Links from around the world.

~ Mark's St Stephen's Day Special offered a sampler from our Café Continental, where the patrons like their music with a soupçon of European sophistication.

~ On Friday, Mark reflected on something he said twenty years ago re the famous Boxing Day tsunami, which swept a quarter-of-a-million people to their death.

~ And, on Saturday, Rick McGinnis returned with his review of the film adaptation of The Riddle of the Sands.

(if you prefer the book - as many do - members may enjoy Mark's narration of it here.)

A new week begins later today with Steyn's Song of the Week at Serenade Radio at 5:30pm GMT/ 12:30pm North American Eastern Time.

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Did you forget someone on your Christmas list? If so, may we humbly suggest some great options that may be delivered to the Steyn fan among your loved ones in the work of moments:

* The Mark Steyn Club Gift Membership - set to deliver to your specifications and date via email or mail. (As a member of The Mark Steyn Club, your special discounted price for gift memberships is $150.)

* The Steyn Store Gift Certificate - Gift certificates start as low as $25.00 for the casual uncommitted dilletante and go up from there, for the hardcore reader who's got to have everything. They never expire, so the recipient can buy something now or wait for the latest addition to Mark's oeuvre to be published.

And, if you don't want to give the gift certificate to some ingrate nephew or surly sibling, you can always give it to yourself for a rainy day!

* The Mark Steyn 2025 Cruise - 7 nights - Spain and Portugal in April. This is also an excellent gift for yourself!

Check out all our Christmas offerings, including downloads of Mark's Christmas albums - at the Steyn Store. Enjoy the Season!

Among the highlights this coming week, on Tuesday please make a date for what has become a SteynOnline tradition: Mark's annual presentation of Christmas Eve Lessons and Carols.

As always, he'll be joined by singers and musicians from the worlds of folk, jazz, rock and opera plus a bevy of Top Five pop stars from across half-a-century, all with brand new versions of your favourite Christmas music.

Speaking of Christmas music...

~ Steyn's Song of the Week highlighted a song celebrating its bicentennial this Christmas: O Tannenbaum by Ernst Anschütz.

~ On the Christmas edition of Mark Steyn on the Town on Serenade Radio, Mark presented a special edition of our Sinatra Sextet: a full hour of Festive Frank, with friends and family from Nancy Sinatra and Frank Jr to Grace Kelly and Bing Crosby, plus the only Bond villain to sing a song composed by Frank. This new episode is available for club members to download here.

Speaking of club members...

Colleen from San Diego writes:

Celebrating the winter solstice and a return of brighter sunshine in the days ahead, from a devoted fan in the Northern Hemisphere. Glad to return as a subscribing member!

Another returning member Patty from New York:

Many thanks for all you do to save Western Civ.

New Member Mark from Hampshire (UK) says of Mark:

An extraordinary man who dares to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. But w/o fear nor favour...

Also new to the club, Michael from British Columbia confesses:

Have read your stuff for years now. Time to pay up.

Welcome to Colleen, Mark, Michael, Patty and all our new and returning members this week from Alabama, Alaska, Alberta, Berkshire, California, East Sussex, Florida, France, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Liverpool, London, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Queensland, South Carolina, South Yorkshire, Tennessee, Victoria, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and beyond.

If you are not yet a member or your membership has lapsed, we invite you to join today.

Meanwhile, in case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked at SteynOnline...

~ The media's curious priorities was the subject of Mark's Monday column.

~ On Tuesday, Mark pondered what happens when your government lies to you...

~ Mark returned to the live Clubland Q&A microphone on Wednesday fielding questions from club members around the world. Listen here for the action replay of this week's show which ran the gamut from US health care to South Korean fertility via Klaus Schwab penetrating your cabinet.

~ On Thursday Laura's Links was back with her collection of links from around the world. She pondered a "Canada on the Cusp".

~ Mark's topical take on Friday revisited a column from twenty years ago which pondered another North American realignment.

~ Early Saturday, Mark responded to the latest Christmas Market attack: When Christmas is a Target.

~ Later Rick McGinnis reviewed the classic film: "Christmas in Connecticut".

~ Finally, last night brought the conclusion of our Christmas Tales for Our Time - Mystery in White by Jefferson Farjeon - brilliantly narrated by Mark himself. All episodes are available to club members to binge-listen here.

A new week begins later today with a seasonal Steyn's Song of the Week at Serenade Radio at 12:30pm North American Eastern Time/ 5:30pm Greenwich Mean Time.

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Thinking of the perfect last-minute Christmas gift for the Steyn fan amongst your loved ones? May we humbly suggest:

* The Mark Steyn Club Gift Membership - set to deliver to your specifications and date via email or mail. (As a member of The Mark Steyn Club, your special discounted price for gift memberships is $150.)

* The Steyn Store Gift Certificate - Gift certificates start as low as $25.00 for the casual uncommitted dilletante and go up from there, for the hardcore reader who's got to have everything. They never expire, so the recipient can buy something now or wait for the latest addition to Mark's oeuvre to be published.

And, if you don't want to give the gift certificate to some ingrate nephew or surly sibling, you can always give it to yourself for a rainy day!

* The Mark Steyn 2025 Cruise - 7 nights - Spain and Portugal in April. This is also an excellent gift for yourself!

Check out all our Christmas offerings, including downloads of Mark's Christmas albums - at the Steyn Store. Enjoy the Season!

The Christmas season is in full swing at SteynOnline...

* Join Mark today, Sunday, at 12:30pm ET/ 5:30pm GMT for a brand new seasonal edition of Steyn's Song of the Week on Serenade Radio, telling the story of a Christmas classic via the US Civil War, global socialism and half-a-dozen American states...

* Club members are invited to tune in later tonight for Mark's ongoing narration of our Christmas caper by Jefferson Farjeon, Mystery in White - a novel published in 1937 which starts in a snowbound train on December 24th and follows its protagonists out into a strange and chilling world.

In last night's episode, having ventured out into the snow in pursuit of a murderer, David found himself completely distracted by a beautiful girl. Catch up on past episodes here.

* And, in case you missed it, have a listen to Steyn's Song of the Week dedicated to "The Red-Nosed Reindeer".

Meanwhile, here's how the last seven days looked at SteynOnline:

~ Mark began the week with his take on the reopening of Notre Dame de Paris and the sorry state of French Christendom.

~ On Monday, Mark commented upon the "peaceful transfer of power" in Syria - and the strange story of Bashar Assad's mid-life career switch to murderous dictator.

~ Midweek our guest host for the regular guest host, Laura Rosen Cohen, fielded questions from Mark Steyn Club members on the Middle East, the incoming Trump administration, the heritage of Justin (Castro) Trudeau and more in this week's Clubland Q&A.

~ Laura was back the next day with her round-up of links from around the world, including moments of human grace and more.

~ On Friday Mark returned to the theme of the world after men in our most read piece of the week.

~ On this week's edition of Mark Steyn on the Town composer Burton Lane told Mark about the Sinatra film that got away, and bandleader Artie Shaw recalled the song that got him into showbusiness.

Plus there was an Aussie Yuletide classic, North America's oldest Christmas carol, a franco-Noël blockbuster and the biggest seasonal hit ever to come out of Ukraine...

~ Later Rick McGinnis reviewed the classic western film "Last Train from Gun Hill" featuring Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn.

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Thinking of the perfect last-minute Christmas gift for the Steyn fan amongst your loved ones? May we humbly suggest:

* The Mark Steyn Club Gift Membership - set to deliver to your specifications and date via email or mail. (As a member of The Mark Steyn Club, your special discounted price for gift memberships is $150.)

* The Steyn Store Gift Certificate - Gift certificates start as low as $25.00 for the casual uncommitted dilletante and go up from there, for the hardcore reader who's got to have everything. They never expire, so the recipient can buy something now or wait for the latest addition to Mark's oeuvre to be published.

And, if you don't want to give the gift certificate to some ingrate nephew or surly sibling, you can always give it to yourself for a rainy day!

* The Mark Steyn 2025 Cruise - 7 nights - Spain and Portugal in April. This is also an excellent gift for yourself!

Check out all our Christmas offerings, including downloads of Mark's Christmas albums - at the Steyn Store. Enjoy the Season!

Tales for Our Time - a perk for Mark Steyn Club members - continued this week with Mark's beautiful narration of Mystery in White, Jefferson Farjeon's "Christmas crime story" of 1937.

In last night episode, Lydia finds her plans for a festive Christmas Eve dinner are not quite working out - as her brother complains to a bed-bound chorus girl. Club members are invited to stream past and upcoming episodes here.

As club member Brian from Michigan notes:

I'm happy to renew. Excellent content.

Kathryn from Texas simply says:

Thank you for all you do.

And, from Helen in the Northern Territory down under...

For Freedom even though the exchange rate is killing!

Welcome to Brian, Kathryn, Helen and all our new and returning members this week from British Columbia, California, Colorado, Gloucestershire, Illinois, Kentucky, London, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, New Jersey, New Zealand, North Carolina, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Prince Edward Island, Texas, Victoria, Virginia, Wisconsin and beyond...

Meanwhile, in case you missed it, here's how the rest of the week looked at SteynOnline:

~ In this audio episode of Steyn's Song of the Week, Mark traced the history of a blockbuster song from Ray Noble and Ruth Etting to Otis Redding and Three Dog Night: "Try a Little Tenderness" by Harry Woods, Jimmy Campbell and Reg Connelly.

~ On Monday, Mark revisited his thesis on demography twenty years ago - "The Not So Long Goodbye."

~ The demography discussion - and a word about BRICS - continued on Tuesday.

~ Mark was behind the Clubland Q&A microphone on Wednesday, fielding questions from Mark Steyn Club members from around the world on everything from the murder in Manhattan to the Trump transition and the collapse of the French government. In case you missed it, here's the action replay.

~ Laura Rosen Cohen returned on Tuesday with her famous links from around the world including her take on Joe Biden "pardoning his son Hunter for a very wide variety of unsavoury acts, which Hunter may or may not have committed during a very, very, very wide expanse of time..."

~ The thirty-fifth anniversary of the Montreal Massacre was on Friday. Mark remembered "The Men Who Walked Away" in our most read piece of the week.

~ Over the weekend, club members enjoyed Mark's latest episode of Mark Steyn on the Town in which Mark remembered a French composer, while Sinatra sang with a Brazilian composer. Plus music from Nova Scotia, and lyricist Gary Osborne recalled a song worth thirty quid...

~ With a nod to the day that will forever live in infamy, Rick McGinnis reviewed "Tora! Tora! Tora!" and Pearl Harbor.

Yesterday also marked the reopening of the Notre Dame de Paris. If you haven't seen it yet, please do check out Mark's column of this morning on yesterday's ceremony plus what he had to say about the fire (and faith) five years ago.

A new week begins later today with Steyn's Song of the Week at Serenade Radio at 12:30pm North American Eastern Time/ 5:30 pm Greenwich Mean Time.

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Thinking of the perfect last-minute Christmas gift for the Steyn fan amongst your loved ones? May we humbly suggest:

* The Mark Steyn Club Gift Membership - set to deliver to your specifications and date via email or mail. (As a member of The Mark Steyn Club, your special discounted price for gift memberships is $150.)

* The Steyn Store Gift Certificate - Gift certificates start as low as $25.00 for the casual uncommitted dilletante and go up from there, for the hardcore reader who's got to have everything. They never expire, so the recipient can buy something now or wait for the latest addition to Mark's oeuvre to be published.

And, if you don't want to give the gift certificate to some ingrate nephew or surly sibling, you can always give it to yourself for a rainy day!

* The Mark Steyn 2025 Cruise - 7 nights - Spain and Portugal in April. This is also an excellent gift for yourself!

Check out all our Christmas offerings, including downloads of Mark's Christmas albums - at the Steyn Store. Enjoy the Season!

Our Black Friday Specials at the Steyn Store continue today through midnight tomorrow North American Eastern Time, December 2nd. Place your order today!

Also, another deadline looms this week for the upcoming Mark Steyn Cruise this April with stops in Spain and Portugal. Come Sail with Us!

This past week we welcomed new and returning members from around the world including Alabama, Alberta, California, Dorset, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New South Wales, Ohio, Texas, Virginia and beyond...

New member Mike from Texas:

Big fan, listened to you for years

Founding member Patricia from Virginia:

Go Mark! Keep up your Happy Warrior face - your adoring public appreciates and respects your Voice in the Wilderness!

Renewing member Hazel from Kent:

I am so pleased that you managed to get... target funding for the Ofcom case... The UK has gone to the dogs!

And, from Hillsdale, Michigan, Anna has also renewed:

Carry on, Mark - we love you so!

He shall.

Meanwhile, in case you missed it, here's how the rest of the week looked here at SteynOnline:

~ If you missed Mark's Song of the Week a few Sundays back on Serenade Radio, here's a chance to hear it at SteynOnline. This selection is a song of quintessentially American swagger and self-confidence: "The Theme from New York, New York".

~ On Monday, we examined a dystopian report out of the UK titled "The future of news".

~ In this week's Clubland Q&A, guest host Laura Rosen Cohen took questions about the incoming Trump administration, Justin Trudeau, Republicans finally in power instead of "in office", the Middle East, and matters pertaining to Jewish lineage!

~ Cohen followed that the next day with an American Thanksgiving edition of Laura's Links.

~ Looking back to Thanksgiving 1924, Steyn covered the very first of what has since become an annual tradition - and he reprised a presidential joke from Calvin Coolidge.

~ The weekend saw the return of Mark's audio series Tales for Our Time - and the first of this year's Yuletide capers - Mystery in White, a "Christmas crime story" from 1937 by Jefferson Farjeon. Part One and Part Two are available to club members for streaming now. Tonight, please tune in to Part Three at SteynOnline.

Club members also may enjoy downloading the latest episode of Mark Steyn On the Town in which Mark celebrates a quartet of great songs that turn one hundred years old this week. Plus: music for St Andrew's Day, and Sinatra sings Gershwin.

~ Finally, Rick McGinnis reviewed Julien Duvivier's Pépé le Moko (1937), one of a small group of films regarded as essential in what would later be called film noir.

A new week begins later today with Steyn's Song of the Week at Serenade Radio at 5:30pm GMT/ 12:30pm North American Eastern Time.

Welcome to our new and returning members from Arizona, California, Christchurch, Connecticut, Georgia, Gloucestershire, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New South Wales, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Somerset, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Wiltshire and beyond...

New member Rob from Staten Island, New York:

Thank you for years of courage, commentary, and comedy. Hope this helps in your continued battle for free speech.

Renewing member Nicole from Utah:

It is my great honor and pleasure to be a member of the Mark Steyn club... Thank you for all you have done and are doing to preserve and continue our Christian God-created eternal Liberty and freedom.

Our nation and the world are forever indebted to you for your courage in speaking the truth and exposing the evil among us decade after torturous decade. You are our generation's Charles Martel and C.S. Lewis...

New member Fred from Indiana:

Keep up the good fight sir.

On that same theme, renewing member William from Florida:

Fight! Fight! Fight!

If you are not yet a member of The Mark Steyn Club, we invite you to join today. The water's fine! And, speaking of water, it is also a great time to sign up for The Mark Steyn Cruise. We set sail in April with delightful stops in Spain and Portugal. We hope to see you on board!

Meanwhile, in case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked at SteynOnline:

~ At the beginning of the week, we took a look back at two timeless and timely shows:

The first is "The Show Ofcom Won't Let You See" - that is, the first of two shows Ofcom deemed "harmful" for questioning the government narrative re: the "safety and efficacy" of the Covid-19 vaccine.

The second show, "Rules for Thee, Not for Me", examined the selectivity of Ofcom in the UK's two-tier "justice" system.

~ Our Clubland Q&A included an update on UK's Chief Censor Ofcom. Your truly also fielded questions on recent Trump appointments and Representative Mace's bill to ban biological men from using women's private spaces on the Hill.

~ Laura Rosen Cohen returned on Thursday with her round-up of links around the world - plus some moments of Human Grace.

~ The weekend marked the return of Mark's newish show On the Town at Serenade Radio. Mark observed the centennial of Puccini's death with his somewhat unlikely biggest hit. Plus there was a Sierra Leone double-play and a very operatic Sinatra Sextet.

Plus, Rick McGinnis reviewed Jonathan Demme film: "Swimming To Cambodia".

A new week begins later today with Steyn's Song of the Week at Serenade Radio at 12:30pm North American Eastern Time/ 5:30pm Greenwich Mean Time.

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Tired of all the winning lately? Our Tales for Our Time feature for Mark Steyn Club members offers a perfect post-election change of pace in the interregnum - or a great diversion tor those waiting for some winning election results of their own. Club members can simply log-in, stream and enjoy at their own pace here.

UPDATE: APOLOGIES FOR THE TECHNICAL ISSUES THE LAST FEW DAYS. THEY SHOULD BE RESOLVED NOW.

Some thoughts from new members of The Mark Steyn Club...

Lenny from Massachusetts:

I'm proud to support you, Mark, especially having gone against the government Goliath myself. Like me, I know you'll come out fine on the other end. Take hope and inspiration from Trump.

Jeff from Nebraska:

I'm signing up purely for updates on who is ahead 2 points in Iowa.

Jonathan from Mark's home state of New Hampshire:

Mr. Steyn, I've followed you for 20+ years (in a non-stalking way :) ). I haven't signed up for membership before because I'm a cheap bastard. Please consider this my thank you for shouldering the burdens of the masses with humor and grace all these years. You're a tough hombre!

And, returning member Alison from Kent has it sorted:

I get a lot of my information/entertainment from this one subscription. Having stopped my BBC licence, that works out as incredibly good value.

Thank you and a warm welcome to all our new and returning members from Alabama, Alberta, Arizona, Bolton, California, Colorado, Delaware, Denmark, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Inverclyde, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Powys, South Carolina, Surrey, Texas, Virginia, Washington, West Sussex, Wiltshire, Worthing, Wyoming and beyond. If you are not yet a member, we invite you to join today!

Meanwhile, in case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark...

~ On Sunday, we shared a replay of Mark's show from the weekend after the 2020 election as our Topical Take.

~ Steyn's Song of the Week was a Remembrance Day/Armistice Day/Veterans Day reprise of a special audio edition devoted to a song from the Great War: "Roses of Picardy".

~ On Remembrance Day, Mark discussed "The Best Blood, the Worst Wars".

~ On Tuesday, he was "Looking for an Argument".

~ Mark returned to the Clubland Q&A microphone on Wednesday fielding questions on Trump's new team ...and the same old-same old over in the Senate.

~ Laura's Links was back at it on Thursday with Laura Rosen Cohen's enthusiastic response to the post-election progress in America, plus some moments devoted to human grace.

~ On Friday, Mark reviewed the state of the current war on free speech and the one man up against NATO and Three-Sevenths of the G7.

~ The latest episode of Mark Steyn On the Town - including a Sinatra Sextet celebrating Frank and the late Quincy Jones down the decades - was made available to club members.

~ Later on Saturday, Rick McGinnis reviewed Laurel & Hardy's "Sons of the Desert" in Rick's Flicks.

A new week begins later today at Serenade Radio with Steyn's Song of the Week at 12:30pm North American Eastern Time/ 5:30pm GMT.

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This week, friends of Mark Steyn rallied together to launch a crowd-fund at GiveSendGo to help meet a daunting and immediate financial demand by the UK courts in connection with Mark's failed effort to stop the death of free speech there.

As Mark's friend and former GB News colleague Dan Wootton noted, they are trying to ruin him. Friend of the show Samantha Smith observed, "Mark Steyn was taken off air because he spoke too much truth and challenged the approved narrative on the vaccine injured." Another friend Leilani Dowding added, "the UK has no justice system."

The CEO of the American based GiveSendGo, who was the first to give, has assured all that - unlike the debacle with a different platform and the Canadian truckers - they will not acquiesce to pressure. It is faith based and there are no fees, save those charged by the credit card processors. If you are able and inclined, here is the link.

You may also continue to support Mark and our work here at SteynOnline in the traditional way through gift certificates, gift memberships, club membership, the store, and our annual cruise.

They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted;
They fell with their faces to the foe.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

- from "For the Fallen" by Laurence Binyon

Here, at SteynOnline, we wish a somber and dignified Remembrance Sunday to readers in the UK, the Overseas Territories and elsewhere.

Across the pond, we celebrate the 249th birthday of the United States Marine Corps and, on this Veteran's Day weekend, honor and appreciate all those who have served and continue to serve in the military.

In case you missed it, this week's edition of Mark Steyn on the Town plays the music of the Great War - songs that are over a hundred years old but are still sung.

It was a big week at SteynOnline with the election of a new Commander-in-Chief:

~ In a brand new episode of Steyn's Song of the Week, Mark played songs by mayors, governors, senators and presidential candidates - and told the story of the only standard in the American songbook written by a man on a winning presidential ticket.

~ On "Election" "Day" Minus Two :: SteynOnline, Mark weighed in on New York State's grotesque execution of a beloved squirrel.

~ The closing messages of the campaign were highlighted on Monday, otherwise known as "Election" "Day" Minus One.

~ Shortly after midnight North American Eastern Time, Mark commented on the first returns in his home state declaring an Incoming Landslide Alert!

~ Later in the Day, as concerns mounted that Democrats would do anything to keep President Trump from taking office. Mark enacted an Incoming Dictatorship Watch.

~ As the returns came in, Mark kept vigil. And then - almost beyond belief - President Trump won a decisive victory Beyond the Margin of Steal.

~ The following day, Wednesday, Mark returned to the Clubland Q&A microphone for a good old-fashioned gloat fest. In case you missed it, here's the action replay.

~ On Thursday, Canadian Laura Rosen Cohen was so inspired by the election results south of the border that she declared USA, USA, USA, Baby!

~ "Monkey Business" was the title and subject of Friday's Weekend Notebook.

~ On Saturday, Rick McGinnis returned with a review of the classic film: "The High and the Mighty."

Finally, congratulations to our old pal Andrew Lawton on securing the Conservative nomination for Elgin—St. Thomas—London South. Godspeed!

A new week begins later today with Steyn's Song of the Week at Serenade Radio at 12:30pm North American Eastern Time/ 5:30pm GMT.

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If you are not yet a member of The Mark Steyn Club, we invite you to join today. The water's fine! And, speaking of water, it is also a great time to sign up for The Mark Steyn Cruise. We set sail in April with delightful stops in Spain and Portugal. We hope to see you on board!