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Politics & Current Affairs

I Have Seen the Future and It's Stabbed

Programming note: Join me tonight for the latest episode of our brand new Tale for Our Time - Robert Hugh Benson's Lord of the World, a piece of speculative fiction from 1907 on the world of the early twenty-first century. ~Say what you like about Axel Rudakubana, the slaughterer of three English girls under ten years old, but - unlike the British Prime Minister, the Home Secretary, the Liverpool Police and most of the court eunuchs in the UK media - he appears to be an honest man: It's a good thing those children are dead... I am so glad... I am so happy. He has always been entirely upfront about such things, telephoning Britain's so-called "Childline" and asking them: What should I do if I want to kill somebody? Judging from his many ...

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Laura's Links

In Power At Last

Laura Rosen Cohen rounds up the Internet...

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The Mark Steyn Audio Show

Serving It Cold

If you missed today's edition of Steyn's Clubland Q&A live around the planet, here's the action replay. This week's show focused mainly on the priorities of the forty-seventh president - and breaking news of the Diversity Stabbing of the Day in Germany. Which, as Mark noted, are both really the same story: immigration, and the right to talk honestly about it...

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Clubland Q&A

Live Around the Planet: Wednesday January 22nd

Mark takes questions from Steyn Club members around the planet...

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Politics & Current Affairs

I Never Promised You a Joe Pardon

Steyn picks some highlights from Inauguration Day...

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Politics & Current Affairs

The Don's Early Light

The "peaceful transfer of power" finally ends...

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Mann vs Steyn

A Small Victory...

An Inaugural Eve update from the DC Superior Court...

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Steyn's Song of the Week

Waltzing Matilda

Mark celebrates Banjo Paterson and a lyric that's all but incomprehensible yet nevertheless captures the spirit of a great nation - with bonus romantic francophone version

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Rick's Flicks

Office Space: Jean Negulesco's The Best of Everything

Rick McGinnis on Hope Lange and Suzy Parker in The Best of Everything...

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On the Town

How Now, Browned Cow?

Mark suffers from a surfeit of prostitutes, plays highlights from The Jacques Brel Songbook and The Mrs O'Leary Songbook, and offers a glass-half-empty Sinatra Sextet...

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Ten Years Ago

The Baronesses Won't Save You

We don't need inquiries; we need action...

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Politics & Current Affairs

It's Paedos All the Way Down

The peoples of the west are taking on the psychological condition of battered wives...

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Politics & Current Affairs

Of Paedos and Policemen

Steyn on the rotten state of Oldham...

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A Clubman's Notes

The Greatest Thing in History

In Episode Eight of Lord of the World, on the eve of the expected war with the Eastern Empire, there is a sudden outbreak of world peace...

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A Clubman's Notes

A Religious Ring

Part Seven of our latest Tale for Our Time: Lord of the World is Robert Hugh Benson's futuristic fiction of 1907, speculating on where we'll be in a century's time - which is more or less right now...

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A Clubman's Notes

A Man of Whom Nothing Is Known

Today is the seventy-fifth anniversary of George Orwell's death. You might wish to observe the occasion with my serialisation of Nineteen Eighty-Four - which can be heard here. Its combination of state violence and official lies seems more relevant to Keir Starmer's Britain than it should be.

Meanwhile, welcome to Part Six of our nightly audio entertainment - Lord of the World, Robert Hugh Benson's vision of the early twenty-first century as seen from 1907...

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A Clubman's Notes

A Reign of Unheard-of Terror

Welcome to Part Five of our brand new Tale for Our Time: Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson, set in the early twenty-first century as seen from 1907...

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A Clubman's Notes

"The Euthanasia People"

Part Four of our latest audio diversion, and our first foray into the oeuvre of Robert Hugh Benson. Lord of the World is a work of speculative fiction from 1907 about the western world in the early twenty-first century - and Mr Benson got an awful lot of things right...

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A Clubman's Notes

A Windowless Train to Brighton

Welcome to the third installment of our brand new Tale for Our Time, a most far-sighted novel, written by Robert Hugh Benson and published in 1907...

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A Clubman's Notes

An American in Irkutsk

Welcome to Part Two of Lord of the World, our latest audio adventure in Tales for Our Time and our first venture into the work of Robert Hugh Benson, a favourite of at least two popes...

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A Clubman's Notes

Getting Here from There

Welcome to the sixty-eighth audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time - and our first foray into the work of Robert Hugh Benson. Lord of the World is a far-sighted novel of 1907 looking ahead to the world of the early twenty-first century. Which is to say, right now...

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Steyn's Song of the Week

Goldfinger

Mark celebrates John Barry, 007's composer and the man who invented "spy music"...

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The Mark Steyn Show

A Palsied Limb of Nature's Frame

After President Trump's suggestion that the United States should buy Greenland, Mark reads the greatest of all poems on the subject...

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The Mark Steyn Audio Show

Christmas Eve Lessons and Carols

A SteynOnline tradition: our annual presentation of ancient scripture and brand new versions of favourite carols, from various members of the Steyn Show musical family...

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Tales for Our Time

The Prisoner of Windsor

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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