Beyond The Mark Steyn Show:
Columns, poems, tales, music, movies and more from Mark and friends
Mark's Week in Review
A Se'nnight of Steyn: June 8-14
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked at SteynOnline...
Rick's Flicks
Dignity of Labour: Picket Lines and Coal Mines in Harlan County USA
This week Rick changes up his regular movie review for a documentary on Kentucky coal miners, released in 1977. Readers will note the eerie echoes of the past today...
Politics & Current Affairs
More War
Is this a new war? Lindsey Graham, member of the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, seems to think so and is panting like Jeffrey Toobin on a Zoom call: Game on. Officially, the US State Department does not share the enthusiasms of Yaroslav's wise guy: pic.twitter.com/oRy6E1DTQJ — Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) June 13, 2025 - although that might just be a bit of necessary head-fakery. Alternatively: On April 12th, Trump gave Iran a 60-day ultimatum to reach an agreement on its nuclear program. Today is day 61 — Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) June 13, 2025 Washington has also revealed that it shared its heads-up from Israel with one of its Arab allies - presumably the Saudis. So far, for Israel, it's going well: they have destroyed the ...
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
Surrendering to the Left's Framing
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 covered a range of topics from "far right" fainthearts to Mike Johnson's travel plans...
Clubland Q&A
Live Around the Planet: Wednesday June 11h
Mark takes questions from Steyn Club members around the planet...
Mann vs Steyn
Mannsplaining
Steyn and Simberg respond to Mann's demand that he and his lying lawyers should not have to pay sanctions...
Politics & Current Affairs
Who We Are, Here and There
As I was saying just the other day: In the end, it's all demography.
The Mark Steyn Show
Vax Veil
In today's segment Mark catches up with Steyn Show favourites Jules Serkin and Naomi Wolf. Jules, a BBC Radio presenter, fell victim to the AstraZeneca vaccine. Yet, even when one of their own suffered, members of her profession stayed silent. Naomi Wolf, at great personal cost, unveiled disturbing information re the effects of the vaccine...
The Mark Steyn Show
A Long Cosy Relationship
Steyn talks to Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer about Irish anti-Semitism...
The Mark Steyn Show
A New Trump and His Old Enemies
As part of The Mark Steyn Club's eighth-anniversary observances, welcome to the third brand new video edition of The Mark Steyn Show. Today's episode was filmed live on the Mark Steyn Iberian Cruise, and discusses the differences between Trump 45 and Trump 47...
The Mark Steyn Show
Offed by Ofcom
A GB News reunion on the latest Mark Steyn Show Dan Wootton, Laurence Fox and Naomi Wolf...
The Mark Steyn Show
Enablers of Evil
Today's episode was filmed live on the Mark Steyn Iberian Cruise with three of our special guests: Sammy Woodhouse, Samantha Smith and Allison Pearson...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Happy Birthday to You
There's really only one song with which we could celebrate The Mark Steyn Club's eighth anniversary...
Politics & Current Affairs
Eight Speech
Today is the eighth birthday of The Mark Steyn Club, launched on May 6th 2017. In honour of the occasion, the Supreme Court of Minnesota has decided to legalise women perambulating topless through the streets...
On the Town
Jinns, Rosières, and Prince Bob
One of the most popular features of Tales for Our Time has been the music Mark chooses to accompany each story. So here, after many requests, is a sampler of the accompanying melodies from some of our tales...
Politics & Current Affairs
When the Police Switch Sides
Disgraceful scenes on the streets of Montreal...
Mann vs Steyn
Mann Ordered to Pay More than Those He Sought to Destroy
In a stunning but not unexpected ruling today, Judge Irving of the DC Superior Court has reduced the unconstitutional punitive damages jury award against Mark from one million dollars to a mere $5,000...
On the Town
Too Plebeian
On this week's episode of Mark Steyn on the Town, we remember a fine songwriter, celebrate the centennial of a great American standard, and enjoy the windy Sinatra. To listen to the programme, simply click here and log-in. ~Thank you for your kind comments about last week's edition. From Fran, a First Weekend Founding Member of The Mark Steyn Club who's just re-upped for a ninth year: This is an out of the park fantastic show, Mark. You're the best. I'm going to have a great and wonderful summer with months of sizzling heat listening to this over and over, even if the temps don't soar into the three digits. Michael Smith, a Maryland Steyn Clubber, says: Thank you Mark for this fine episode and a very happy birthday Nancy Sinatra! Lucky ...
A Clubman's Notes
Hard Knocks
Programming note: Tomorrow, Saturday, please join me for another edition of my Serenade Radio weekend music show, Mark Steyn on the Town. The fun starts at 5pm British Summer Time - which is 6pm in Western Europe and 12 noon North American Eastern. You can listen from almost anywhere on the planet by clicking the button at top right here. ~Ahead of that, welcome to the seventy-first audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time. As we begin our ninth season, we've built a spectacular archive that runs the gamut from A to Z ...well, not quite, but certainly A to W - Jane Austen to P G Wodehouse. The newest addition to our collection is a short story from 1948 written by Fredric Brown (whom I discuss in my introduction) and with a ...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Ain't Misbehavin'
Programming note: Mark will be back in audio on Friday with the latest entry to our series of audio adventures, Tales for Our Time. ~If you missed today's Serenade Radio broadcast of our audio Song of the Week, here's a chance to catch up. In this show Mark tells the story of a song that's a blast of pure joy, but emerged from an unlikely corner of history. Click above to listen. This airing of our Song of the Week is a special presentation of The Mark Steyn Club. Thank you for your kind responses to this series. Of last week's selection, Larry Jordan, a Texas Steyn Clubber, writes: It is Sunday and I've got the earphones on listening to Sunday (Mark's Song of the Week) and it's perfect. Feet-up longways on the corner sofa curled-up with ...
On the Town
Farandoles and Seguidillas
On this week's episode of Mark Steyn On the Town, we celebrate Georges Bizet and Nancy Sinatra. Plus: a cavalcade of Non-Stop Number Ones, and a rare touch of reggae...
A Clubman's Notes
Belling the Cat
A rerun of a Tale for Our Time first aired almost a decade ago: Belling the Cat by Rudyard Kipling...
A Clubman's Notes
Police State
Welcome to the conclusion of our eighth-birthday Tale for Our Time: Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K Jerome...
A Clubman's Notes
Bacchus with a Bay Window
Part Twenty-One of Three Men on the Bummel, a comic travelogue of 1900 by Jerome K Jerome...
A Clubman's Notes
Night of a Thousand Scars
Part Twenty of Three Men on the Bummel, Jerome K Jerome's comic romp of 1900, confronts Germany's reductio ad absurdum of duelling...
A Clubman's Notes
The Veal in the View
Part Eighteen of Jerome K Jerome's comic romp Three Men on the Bummel, now hurtling - or digressing - towards its thrilling finale...
A Clubman's Notes
Bicycling Off-Poster
Episode Fifteen of Mark's latest Tale for Our Time, Jerome K Jerome's Three Men on the Bummel...
A Clubman's Notes
"What Makes You Think That?"
Part Ten of our current Tale for Our Time - Jerome K Jerome's sequel to his enduring comic classic Three Men in a Boat...
A Clubman's Notes
Lessons in Language
Part Eight of our birthday Tale. After a week of digressions, our trio finally arrive in Germany, to begin digressing more Germanically...
A Clubman's Notes
The Non-Scenic Route
Part Seven of our birthday Tale for Our Time - Three Men on the Bummel by the master of comic digression, Jerome K Jerome...
A Clubman's Notes
Uncle Podger Among the Costermongers
Our birthday Tale for Our Time, and the seventieth of our Steyn Club audio adventures, is Mark's serialisation of Three Men on the Bummel...
A Clubman's Notes
Rise and Shine
Part Four of Mark's serialisation of Jerome K Jerome's sequel to Three Men in a Boat - Three Men on the Bummel...
A Clubman's Notes
The Society of Other Men
Welcome to Part Two of Three Men on the Bummel, our springtime audio adventure in Tales for Our Time...
A Clubman's Notes
Kind of a Bummel
Welcome to the seventieth audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time...
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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