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The Mark Steyn 2025 Cruise is just around the corner. This year, we have made some big upgrades while retaining all the great things that bring our cruise alumni back year every year. * We will set sail on the modern and gorgeous Celebrity Apex - a huge step-up with more options on board for relaxation, entertainment, spa treatments, food and more! * Our new ship has better dedicated dining spaces for us (no more bad acoustics) - and we have increased the number of special guests on board. This will ensure each cruiser gets more quality time on more hosted tables. * Also, Celebrity has included the drinks and wi-fi packages for our group - so no need to budget for what is usually extra. * Our ports of call this year are charming and ...
"The risk of a 'two tier' media environment is a particular problem." Tell me about it. Alas, the Communications Committee of the UK House of Lords has something else in mind in a new report out today... "This is not a hypothetical worry: the contours of this scenario are already apparent. If current trends continue, the gap between those consuming professional journalism and those who do not will widen at pace. There is a realistic possibility of the UK's news environment fracturing irreparably along social, regional and economic lines within the next 5–10 years. The implications for our society and democracy would be grim." Grim indeed. Here is where American readers might say - Hey what's this to do with us? Didn't we toss those guys ...
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark...
On the 12th of April, 1975, the U.S. military put Operation Eagle Pull into effect, evacuating Americans and staff of the American embassy in Phnom Penh as well as Cambodians and third-party nationals by helicopter. Five days later the Khmer Rouge entered the capital, executed the members of the Cambodian government who remained behind and started evicting the population of the city, which included hundreds of thousands of refugees, to the countryside. Cambodia disappeared under a black cloud from which it would not reemerge until the end of the decade. On January 10th, 2004 the actor and writer Spalding Gray took his children to see Big Fish, Tim Burton's film about a dying man notorious for his fantastic, improbable stories. That evening ...
Hello again, and welcome to this week's batch of Laura's Links. Remember last week when I told you that I was so, totally not tired of winning yet? I have to add to that. I've had more thoughts! Deep thoughts! So allow me to riff on that for a bit. I'll tell you what I'm feeling and then you can feel free to let me know if you're feeling any of it, if you think I'm off my rocker, or any combination of these two positions. Right. So in addition to not being tired of winning, I also still feel a deep and palpable sense of relief. I think people are relieved that they can make fun of certain sacred transgendered cows, speak like normal humans about humans with penises in female bathrooms, and ridicule the cult of the pronoun freely. People ...
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Yesterday, we brought you the first show that offended Ofcom's mission to silence anyone who dares to question the government false narrative re: the "safety and efficacy" of the Covid-19 vaccine. Today, we bring you the analysis by two experts - real experts- the day after Mark was found guilty by the UK's chief censor. Here's how Mark introduced the program: ~Yesterday in the UK Mark was found guilty of breaching Ofcom's "rules" in a show from last April on the Covid vaccines and their efficacy. Since then, notwithstanding the British regulator and its "advice", the story has moved relentlessly in Steyn's direction: the vaccine boosters have been increasingly abandoned by the public where they have a choice in such matters, and ...
UPDATE via @TexasLindsay: "We did it!! We hit the goal! Thank you so so very much to everyone who shared and donated to help Mark Steyn. I LOVE YOU ALL! ...The censors in the UK aim to make an example of Mark & make others afraid to speak against the narrative—but we're sending a powerful message back to these tyrants: WE ARE NOT AFRAID." As Mark faces a looming court deadline tomorrow, we thought we would bring you the first of two shows the UK's chief censor Ofcom deemed "harmful" - not because what he said about the Covid vaccines wasn't true. It was and remains true. But because it "harmed" the UK government's false narrative that the covid vaccine was safe and effective. Since the initial airing of this show, the UK government's ...
If you missed today's edition of Mark's Clubland Q&A live around the planet, here's the action replay. Steyn was back at the microphone, fielding questions on Trump's new team ...and the same old-same old over in the Senate...
Mitch McConnell and the same-old same-old...
Thoroughly Modern Milley and the American way of war...
California manages to count forty-four per cent of Eric Shagdwell's vote...
The Deep State moves to Plan B...
Steyn answers your questions on the most amazing comeback in American political history...
Steyn covers Election Night live...
No way no how will the opposition leader be taking office...
The first votes are in...
Let the shenanigans begin!
Steyn on New York State's grotesque execution of a beloved squirrel...
The Freeish World's lousiest election system continues to work its dark magic...
Don't sign up to the Republic of Bollocks...
Three little girls sacrificed on the altar of "diversity"...
A rare stage appearance by Steyn, as he returns to America's diseased and depraved capital city for address a Hillsdale College audience on Post-Constitution Day...
Is the CIA getting its plot twists from The Prisoner of Windsor?
Mark remembers his beloved and inspirational cat Marvin...
The Corner post that launched a lawsuit...
Mark's favourite song from the Great War...
On the eve of Remembrance Day/Armistice Day/Veterans Day, 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, including a summer pop hit from 2010; a soldiers' favourite that supposedly evokes the sound of French bedsprings; and the only Sinatra track to be banned across the British Empire. To listen to the programme, simply click here and log-in. ~Last week's pre-election edition of On the Town attracted a lot of comment. Peter, a First Week Founding Member of The Mark Steyn Club, writes: Nice show as always Mark; a fine respite from the ugliness of the 'real' world. Hearing Frank S. interact with the Presidents, it makes me smile ironically knowing ...
It could be worse. Mark could be banged up in Belmarsh like poor old Tommy. [UPDATE: more on the corrupt two-tier UK judiciary breaking now.] Today, Justice Farbey of the High Court in London ruled: 1) the costs demanded by Ofcom are to be sent for detailed assessment on the standard basis 2) there will be a payment on account of £50,000 by 19 November 2024 3) Costs of today to be paid by the Claimants, save in relation to the written submissions which will be paid at 50% Mark will have twenty-one days to consider an appeal. Ofcom had demanded £144,959.28, refused to provide detailed billing to justify that amount, and then twisted that to mock the actual harm they have caused Mark and Naomi Wolf: (Steyn's) post ad hoc attempt to downplay ...
If you enjoy Steyn's Song of the Week at SteynOnline and on Serenade Radio, please note that there will be a live stage edition during the 2025 Mark Steyn Cruise - along with many other favourite features from SteynOnline and The Mark Steyn Show. More details here. ~If you missed Mark's Song of the Week earlier today on Serenade Radio, here's a chance to hear its world premiere at SteynOnline. In a brand new episode, two days ahead of the American "elections", Mark plays songs by mayors, governors, senators and presidential candidates - and tells the story of the only standard in the American songbook written by a man on a winning presidential ticket. You'll hear it sung and played by everyone from Dinah Shore and Nat King Cole to Van ...
A presidential Sinatra Sextet, plus Jack Jones sings Nelson Eddy and Bryan Adams...
A bewitching song by two of Mark's favourite songwriters...
Music to put your clocks back to, plus, with Halloween looming, the Dracula Cha-Cha and the Spooky Sinatra...
Mark tells the tale of a composer who wrote three Oscar-winners and many more nominees - yet always wanted to be back in New York working on a Broadway show...
Mark explores some byways of Bond...
Mike Batt joins Mark for a favourite song of four generations of female vocalists from Eartha Kitt to Miley Cyrus...
On this week's edition, Mark has hit songs with non-singing parts - plus pigtails, freckles, Cypriots, and eminent composers from Cole Porter to George Michael. Also: Frank Sinatra says his prayers...
The concluding episode of The Unparalleled Invasion, written by Jack London in 1910...
Welcome to the sixty-sixth audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time - and our seventh venture into the work of Jack London...
Mark tells the story of one of the greatest songs of all...
Mark presents sixty minutes of Number One records, songs from France and Nigeria, a bevy of ladies, a number for dictaphone, a very marmitey song, and a memorable ride over the 59th Street Bridge...
Mark remembers the multi-talented Caterina Valente, and passes on one of the greatest anecdotes he has ever been told...
Mark remembers a dear friend of the Steyn Show musical family, the guitarist Russell Malone...
Welcome to the sixty-fifth audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time - and our second venture into G K Chesterton...
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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