America’s Political Prisoners
Steyn’s position on the afternoon of January 6th has been consistent since the early evening of January 6th…
When the Base Doesn’t Know Its Place
Interviewed by Steyn, then arrested by wanker coppers…
You Can Get a Man with a Gun
Steyn on Ryan, Cantor and McCarthy – the GOP’s “Young Guns”, who got real old real fast…
Beyond Politics
Today, Monday, I’ll be speaking live to Hillsdale College’s National Leadership Seminar
Vigil, Lockdown and Courage
Steyn on the Duke of Edinburgh, the shifting goalposts of lockdown, and the squishiness of America’s rock-ribbed conservatives
Get Out the Gloat
Steyn on replacism for me but not for thee
The Reset Jet Set Revisited
The far horizon for them, house arrest for you
Election Integrity in America
Today, Tuesday, I’ll be joining Peter Navarro, Kris Kobach and others for Michele Bachmann’s Zoom conference on election integrity. Michele and Ben Carson will be kicking things off, followed by a panel on the Democrats’ “HR1” bill: An Effort to Correct the Irregularities, or Institutionalize them?
Testicles Still on Hold
Steyn on where we were a year ago, a Harry/Meghan crowdfunding flopperoo, and America as the Wuhan Institute of the Woke Flu…
The Very Model of a Modish Loser General Staff
After getting nowhere with the Taliban, the Raytheon lobbyist and his über-woke brass at the Pentagon target Tucker Carlson…
Things to Obsess About Until They Nuke Us
Stories that Steyn has no interest in
Free T-Shirt with Every Entry!
Mark on the world’s most open border, a Clinton confidante, and a flurry of activity in Mann vs Steyn…
Blizzard of Lies (Update)
Steyn on the official lies being hammered down our throats – and the ones being quietly withdrawn
Thinking Globally, Stuck Locally
The end of mass travel, two thousand bucks for lunch, and from Nannygate to China policy supremo
Steyn in for Rush Today!
Mark on Reimpeachment and two significant developments in the Mann vs Steyn case
Potemkin Parliament, Pseudo-Legislature
The creepy veneration of the US Congress is utterly unwarranted
Shaidle on Speech and the Unhappy Left
A few moments from the late Kathy Shaidle’s appearances on The Mark Steyn Show
Down Under Opposite Land
Obviously foreign countries are the easiest to write about: “Through the haze, I could see camel caravans crossing the Niger river,” etc. That’s Joseph C. Wilson IV’s famous New York Times editorial about whether or not Saddam was trying to acquire uranium from Niger–a bad travelogue that nevertheless catapulted him to the world’s longest 15 minutes of fame. But countries that are apparently just like your own are much harder to get into the real rhythm of. On the face of it, Australia is much like Canada: the streets have the same names (Wellington, Grosvenor, and so on), and there’s usually a statue of Queen Victoria and/or a bunch of buildings bearing her moniker. Canada and Australia are, as we used to say, the two senior …
Veinglory in the Highest
So it turns out that, like clean elections, mass vaccination campaigns is just another thing America can no longer do: Steyn on who gets the express check-in and who doesn’t…
An Ambulance with No Chasers
According to the media, Donald J Trump is not entitled to legal representation
Looking for an Argument
One of Mrs Thatcher’s great insights was: First you win the argument; then you win the election. To win the argument, you have to make it…
Election Day Plus Five
Power drains, very quickly
Steyn in for Rush Today!
Mark’s back on America’s Number One radio show
Election Day Plus Four
Just ahead of Trump’s presser in Philly, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, the Associated Press and Fox News have all called the election for Joe Biden
Election Day Plus Two
Fake ballots, treason and plot
Election Day Plus One
The Dementia Kid staggers on toward 270
Election Night Live
Steyn covers the results as they come in
Millsfield or Dixville?
A tale of two hamlets
Election Day Minus One
Biden turns Pennsylvania Potemkin
Election Day Minus Two
Buy plywood!
Election Day Minus Three
Steyn on the faintheartedness of anti-woke warriors
Election Day Minus Five
The Big Shut Up – from Islam to the woke billionaires
Election Day Minus Seven
A ninth judge …just in time for the avalanche of post-election litigation
Election Day Minus Nine
Steyn on polls, pandemics and Pennsylvania
Election Day Minus Eleven
Trump and Biden meet for their second and last debate
Election Day Minus Twelve
After the last four years, would you take advice from the feds on “disinformation”?
When Woke Puts You to Sleep
The press goes postal, the press goes full Orwell, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg as the Aunt Flo of fine dining
Tomorrow’s Civilizational Cringe Today
Steyn on the latest beheading on the streets of Europe
Energy in the Executive
A two-day time-out, Creepy Joe and the eight-year-old girl, and collateral damage from the Kavanaugh hearing
The Morning After
Choo-choo ch’Biden: whistlestops and turnout models
Debate Night Live
Trump vs Biden, as it happened
World Record-Breaking Expectation-Lowering
Steyn on a non-campaign, urban congestion, and demographic delusions
Last Orders at the Hive
Another death at the hands of this hideous fraudulent “social justice” movement
Feasting on Blood
Steyn on blood lust in California, the road from 9/11 to 2020, and contradicting a friend…
Macdonald Falls
The Macdonald Monument, honoring Canada’s first prime minister, stood in Dominion Square for 125 years – until this weekend…
Nationalizing the Debate
Mark Steyn Club member and former People’s Party of Canada candidate Ellen Comeau on what happens when government gets involved in political debates…
After the Ball
The Great Bifurcation accelerates; Kellyanne bows out; and Michael Mann is Doctor Deadbeat…
The Reset Jet Set
The globalists are making plans for us
Who Needs the Plague?
Campaign 2020 and the coming chaos
A WE Problem
Guest columnist Andrew Lawton on the Canadian political scandal starring grifters, shell corporations, virtue signallers and a federal ethics probe – with Justin Trudeau at the center of it.
A Baroness on Barrenness
Mark remembers P D James, and a remarkably prescient novel
A World Without Blue Checkmarks
Andrew Lawton on this week’s sudden silencing of the Twitter elite
A Not So Happy Warrior
A sad end for Mike Adams – and the silence of the “silent majority”
The Priorities of McConnell
A grim choice in November, Kobach for Kansas, and Michael Mann, scofflaw and deadbeat
Babes in a China Shop
Twenty years ago, Americans were told, “Get used to it: Manufacturing’s not coming back. We can’t make widgets for the price they can be made in China. So instead we’re going to be ‘the knowledge economy’…” Yet mysteriously China wound up with “the knowledge economy”, too…
The Wheels of Justice Grind…
Two disgraceful federal cases – against Julian Assange and Michael Flynn
Plywood Thursday
Social distance or social justice, wigs or hijabs, rubber stamps or billets doux?
The Supreme Ayatollahs of Expertistan
A rare moment of judicial sanity
The Case of the Topless Taoiseach
Lockdowns are for the little people
The Permanent Emergency
From mandatory masks to the dearth of duets, the post-lockdown world begins to take shape
Out Like Flynn
US federal “justice” would embarrass your average dictatorship
Achoo-Choo Ch’Boogie
Chinese checkers, mass transit morbidity, and R Kelly’s lawyer
Michael E Mann, Loser and Liar …and Scofflaw and Deadbeat?
After losing big time in court, will the self-proclaimed Nobel Laureate have to take out a mortgage on his hockey stick?
The Preparedness of the 24/7 Surveillance State
When seconds count, the police are minutes away. When days count, the government is weeks away…
Pitching the Wuhan
A Coronaland cornucopia from Mama Yang to Joe “Bird” Biden
The New Spanish Inquisition
As a new week begins, some Chinese virus notes – from the celebrity stricken and hockey hotties to Pelosi’s porkapalooza and Madrid macho men
After the Balls
Is there nothing this virus can’t do? From the Deerfield Testicle Festival to the Holy Roman Empire, who’s been stricken – and who’s next.
A Glimmer of Flattening?
Good news from Italy? Alas, no…
Corona Catch-22
A few notes on the Kung Flu fighting
Feel the Bernout
This is the way the world ends, not with a Bern but a whimper…
Cover Story
Sharia chic, property is theft (except mine), and the non-warm-mongering scientist
The Biggest Loser(s)
The atonal cacophony of the Democrat debate
When Shinners are Winners
A Sinn Féin triumph in the Irish election
The Bloomberg Administration Takes Shape
Will Mini-Mike’s veep be Hillary – or Michelle?
Submission is the Better Part of Valor
Kate Smyth on going gently into Arabian night
The Eleventh Hour
Cometh the hour, cometh Brexit
Ripping Up and Melting Down
Mark on Pelosi and Romney
Witless Ape Postscript
This is what they think of you
Going Ape, Four Years On
Not athwart but adrift
Impeachment Non-Watch
All Schiff, all the time
Objection: Sad!
Why the accused Trump should represent himself – plus dollies with dangles, and the jihadist as victim
Losing in Extra-Extra-Extra Time
Betting on Brexit
A Three Thousand, Six Hundred and Fifty-Se’nnight of Steyn
In case you missed it, here’s how the last ten years looked to Mark
Values, Complications and Evasions
Jews, the news, and an insufficient Islamoschmooze
If an Impeach Tree Falls in the Forest
A Corbyn-less Hanukkah, a Senate-less impeachment, a fashion editor-less America
Great Moments in Post-Christianity
A transphobic gay altarpiece, the left’s contempt for the will of the people, and the dismal spectacle of catch-up conservatism
Boffo Boris
In the UK election, a spectacular triumph for Steyn’s old boss
Too Stupid to Survive (Cont.)
After London Bridge, yet another absurd and humiliating might-be-terrorism-but-who-can-say? attack
Jews, Jihad and Joe
A triggering speech about Joe Biden’s leg hair and more, including a new Australia section, in this week’s Laura’s Links
Prince Andrew, Puke of York
The World’s Worst Hitler, the partyless prince, and much more from around the web in this week’s Laura’s Links
Leg-Hair Malarkey
Mark and Tucker celebrate the launch of Joe Biden’s “No Malarkey” tour
Unlearning Together
London Bridge revisited – and more blackly parodic even than last time
Kvellin’ Around the Christmas Tree
A kosher conspiracy, Bloomberg for President, gran’ma fights back, and much more in this week’s Laura’s Links
Good Sports
Breaking news re Mann vs Steyn, plus the death of women’s sports, and suing the thoughtcrime commissars of the UK police
Return of the One-Night-Only King of Cable
Steyn’s Number One, not just in cable news but all cable TV
The Cherry on Top
From Don Cherry to Dolly Parton: all in this week’s Laura’s Links
Cult Is as Cult Does
Steyn on George Conway and Prince Andrew
Emission Control
Self-extinction is the ultimate virtue-signaling
Gender-Neutral Gingerbread People
In this week’s Laura’s Links: remembrance, equity theft, Swedish drag and cookies with non-binary gingertalia…
Not All Heroes Issue Late Fines
The newest free speech heroine is a Toronto librarian, Apple is woke to its core, and the kosher history of fish and chips. All this and more in Laura’s Links…
Internal Contradictions of the Multicultural Utopia
Steyn on a doomed Sweden, a hate-filled Connecticut, a Jew-free Britain, and an adulterous Broadway
Rot in Helm
An X-rated drag queen storytime, an F-graded prime minister, and a round of jazz hands for all: another busy week in Laura’s Links
Baghdadi Bagged
Putting the kibosh on the Caliph
Putting the Infidel in Infidelity
This week’s Laura’s Links : Justin’s re-election, the real story of Chinese gulags, and the latest Big Tech threat
Scheer Genius
The morning after a grim Canadian election night
Putting It to the People, Over and Over and Over
Just another day in the new UK: Brexit, racist statues, and the human right to star in a porno
The Banana Vote Song: Tallying Time
Will blackface beat no-face? (Or two-face?)
Eat, Pray, Love: Burqa Edition
From Pakistan for the single girl to Sesame Street on opioids: this week’s Laura’s Links
A Cure Worse Than the Disease
A man of the left backs away from the permanent coup – plus Canada’s Prime Minstrel blackfaced and bulletproof
Cancel Culture Bites Own Tuchus
A Yom Kippur edition of Laura’s Links, with stories about the trans culture war, Big Papal’s support for mass migration, and the Old Vic theatre going woke.
High Holy Links
From Yiddish dogs to Liberal underbusing
Blackface Narcissus
Learn to camp with the world’s wokest mammy singer
Prince JT, Yes it is He, JT of Ottawa
Laura Rosen Cohen brings us her weekly selection of the good, the bad and the OMG-are-you-kidding-me, curated by yours truly. This week: sperm donors, blackface and the cult of environmentalism.
A Round of Wokejitos
SteynOnline’s resident suburban Jewish mom, Laura Rosen Cohen, is back on dry land with another of her weekly roundup of stories depicting the world’s insanity, evil and grace.
Ice Follies of 2019
Homeland security, oceanic insecurity, and that’s the sound of the man working his chain on the gang…
Tuxedo on the Lido
Laura Rosen Cohen brings us a special Laura’s Links, filed from the glacier ridden inside passage of Alaska, aboard the Mark Steyn Cruise.
Johnson vs Johnson
Brexiteers and Remoaners locked in ever more demented plot twists
Triumph of the Will & Grace
If not yet a one-party state, we have a one-party culture
Bedbug Journalism
Unfit Australian police, brave Iranian women, self-hating Jews: Laura Rosen Cohen once again trawls the internet for all that’s worth seeing…
Proroguish Charmer
The rise of China and the road to Brexit
A Human Right To Babysit
From a litigious babysitter to a transgender rugby player, Laura Rosen Cohen brings us 20,000 links under the sea in the latest Laura’s Links…
State Funeral For A Glacier
In this week’s Laura’s Links: Iceland mourns a glacier, anti-Semitic Leftist ice queens continue to make hay out of a travel ban from Israel, and a transgender cricket player melts away real women’s chances of victory.
Stop Yer Lyin’ or Yer Not Comin’ to Zion
From Ramadan raps to a cross-country granny, the latest Laura’s Links
Shaving Away Profits
Gillette’s woke gamble cost the company eight billion dollars. But maybe they can go get degrees in Marijuana Studies instead?
Steyn’s Back on Tucker Carlson Tonight
After a short summer break, Mark returns to “Tucker Carlson Tonight”…
That’s One Angry Flower Girl
From a creepily cute wedding photobomb to Donald Trump’s continuous Twitter victories, here are the top stories you may-have-seen-but-probably-missed, courtesy of Laura Rosen Cohen…
Berrying Boris
Until his car passed through the gates of Buckingham Palace en route to the kissing of hands, I didn’t quite believe Boris Johnson would actually make it to the premiership. That’s partly because many years ago he arrived late at a Spectator lunch, told us he’d just realized he was going to be prime minister, and we all laughed…
Can’t Get Into That
After the Special Counsel’s flop performance before Congress, Mark revisits his interview with Mueller victim George Papadopoulos
The Taming of the Jew-Hating Shrew
Laura Rosen Cohen takes us 20,000 links under the sea in her latest roundup of the insane, infuriating and indigestible
Wokers of the World Utd
After much acclaim for her first SteynOnline contribution, Australian Mark Steyn Club member Kate Smyth returns with this take on the wokeification of the western workplace.
The Cancelling of Lindsay Shepherd
From Lindsay Shepherd’s virtual vaporization by Big Tech to daddy-daughter wardrobe sessions, Laura Rosen Cohen returns with the latest instalment of her weekly round-up of specially curated stories from across the globe.
Wokeness at Warp Speed
The difference between “Bush Derangement Syndrome” and “Trump Derangement Syndrome” was that the former was largely contained to a visceral loathing for the President himself, whereas the latter has been extended to anyone who voted for him…
The Empire Wokes Back
In Democrat identity politics it helps to be a British subject
Rip Van Woken in a Land of Non-Binary Oreos
The Age of Woke is one of accelerating obsolescence
Is it Hot in Here or is it Just Me?
Laura Rosen Cohen links around the world, from California grooming to Continental bathing
Contempt is the New Tax Evasion
It’s not illegal to be a bigoted, racist, Islamophobe as Tommy Robinson’s critics allege he is. So the government got him on contempt of court and a parking ticket instead.
Milkshakes Come in Vanilla, Chocolate and Concrete
Laura Rosen Cohen once again takes us 20,000 links under the sea in her weekly round-up of content from around the globe ranging from the cute to the infuriating.
Portlantifa
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Muelling About
Robert Mueller is testifying before congress. Here’s a look back at some of the swamp’s leading men throughout the Russia investigation.
That’ll Be One Palestinian Piranha Pedicure, Please
Laura Rosen Cohen once again brings you more links than you’d find on a PGA tour as she trawls the internet for the stories you might have missed…
Cis-ters Are Doin’ It For Themselves
Kate Smyth on how the victim culture is undoing the work of many women’s rights trailblazers
When Normal is Insufficient
My old boss Boris Johnson has been fortunate, as Donald Trump was in 2016, in his enemies.
Where’s That Vatican Border Wall?
Laura Rosen Cohen takes us around the world in 80 clicks, from an Ohio bakery to the Vatican with stops in Michiganistahn and deep state dumpsters.
The Man on the Escalator
Trump, Bernie, and a Steyn I-told-you-so moment
Do the Wokestapo Wear Hermes Scarves?
Laura Rosen Cohen links around the world
Brexit for Cokeheads
O tempora, O Tories
Steyn Appears Before the House of Commons Justice Committee
Mark gives evidence to the House of Commons Committee on Justice and Human Rights:
JUST Desserts
Useless Tories on either side of the Atlantic, a Wolf gets sheepish, and Armenians for Lulu
The Base Gets Itself a New Elite
The return of Farage, and the repudiation of May …and Corbyn
He Fought the Law – and He Won, Eventually
Conrad Black’s long overdue pardon and America’s disgraceful and corrupt federal “justice” system
It Takes a Village Idiot
Mark on “the village idiots of Brexit”, the dark corruption at the heart of the FBI, and a comedian whose biggest laugh was a newspaper headline…
Alyssistrata
Mark and Tucker on Alyssa Milano and Bette Midler’s sex strike in the cause of abortion:
A Hard Sell
Treachery and incompetence: The Tories’ winning combination
The Best of All Possible Government Ministries
The Ministry of Possibilities, Justin practices feng sushi, the “far right” moves nearer, and the judenrein New York Times
Taqiyya for Easter
The media’s determination to present an Islamic massacre of Christians as anything but
The Gay Blade
Woke razors, gay rugger, and Theresa’s tyranny
The Craven Pile-On of Hollow Conservatives
Distancing yourself into the distance
Ministry of All the Fools
Brexit thwarters, Privy Council enforcers and Tongan reverts
The Fanmaid’s Tale
New Zealand takes virtue-signaling to the next level
Deep-State Dumpster Fire
After two years, Robert Mueller folds
Exit Brexit
Parliament rises up against the people
Bush Whacks
Steyn on Winston’s biographer and Dubya’s dinner companion, criminalizing movie reviews, and betraying Brexit
Calling Out Around the World
All jihad is local, but all “Islamophobia” is global…
The GOP’s Next Hill Not to Die On?
From bigshot Democrats to moderate conservatives, “reparations” catches on
Two-Mile Tailbacks at Jew-Hate Junction
Everyone meets at Jew-Hate Junction: excitable young Mohammedans, secular polytechnic Euro-lefties, anti-globalist conspiracy theorists…
Trudeaupia on the Waterfront
Perversion of justice in Ottawa and Melbourne – and Steyn remembers the comic timing of a great conductor
Sousaphoning It In
Voiceless sound men, womanless women’s sports, and Sousa seizures
Steyn in for Rush Today!
Steyn on the air, Dennis on stage, dust in the wind, Anne in the water…
Chasing Butts Across the Commonwealth
Gropers in Sydney, plotters in Ottawa
Watching Bricks Get Laid
Mark joins Kat, Tyrus and his fellow Torontonian Dr Debra Soh on “The Greg Gutfeld Show”
The Future They’re Planning for Us
Steyn on two contrasting approaches to population growth – and the hereditary nobility of Michigan
Accessories and Crimes
Trump Derangement vs Bush Derangement; the crime of Tweet liking; and the Wodehousian stage of social protest
The Drumbeat of the Mob
Conservative Inc disgraces itself
Pure Barry. Or Not.
Steyn on the air and in Wilkes-Barre, and Howard Dean in full voice and in Canada
Change and Decay in All Around
Social justice paedo-chic
The Real Crisis
Trump, the Democrats, and the border
A Three-Hundred-and-Sixty-Se’nnight of Steyn, 2018
In case you missed it, here’s how the last twelve months looked to Mark
A Forest of Bare Branches
The politburo and the press catch up to Steyn’s thesis on China
The American Media, Suckered Again
Time‘s Man of the Year and a Steyn I-told-you-so moment
Lone But Motley
A “lone wolf” doesn’t want for company
Campaign 2020 Update
Another hundred million bucks out the window
The Man, the Myth, the Pussycat
Ashley Webster interviews Mark on politics, comedy, music and more
Steyn in for Rush Today!
Wombles, cockwombles, and courtroom cockwombles
Sapphic Sharia Same-Sex Slavers in Secaucus!
The Taqiya branch of the rainbow coalition
The New Christmas Tradition
“Life must go on” means sudden, bloody, murderous death must go on
Among the Cockwombles
French protesters, Russian bots, Greek moppets and the first American cockwomble
Last Call
Steyn on Somalia with chip shops, golf with Sinatra, and a world without CRTV
All I Want for Christmas Is More Bollards
Festive Terrablocks and a Hokey-Cokey Brexit
Turki Leftovers
Steyn on a deep-cover Saudi spook and his princely patron plus an urbane BBC survivor and SteynOnline’s sixteenth birthday
Welcome to the Hotel Brexifornia
Steyn on Theresa May’s betrayal of Brexit, and a possible replacement for her
A Tale of Two Migrants
An immigrant dream ends in a jihadist nightmare on the streets of Melbourne
The Morning After
Notes on the blue wave that wasn’t, and a red trickle in the Senate
Monsieur le Pseudo-Président
Bernard Landry, the separatist who couldn’t separate
Finding Wisdom as the Branches Shrivel
Real slaughter in Pittsburgh, a fake Seminole in Florida, and a new Muslim in Ireland
Rationalizing Our Surrender
Creeping Sharia watch: Just because a bloke has sex with a nine-year-old doesn’t mean he’s a pedophile…
Bombs A-Weighed
The answer to more violence is never less speech – as even Mitt Romney should know
The Man who Put the Saud in Saudi Arabia
A mail bomber on the loose – and the perfidious Sauds
Smiley’s People
Fighting for Kandahar while surrendering Paris – plus when Sargey gets blue, and not feline so groovy
Perfumes of Arabia
Saudi consular services, Canada’s coercive tolerance, and Dennis Miller’s sketch aversion
For Whom the Dog Tolls
Nova Scotian canines, media know-nothings, Gosnell grosses – and whatever happened to Peggy-Sue?
Man, I Feel Like a Womxn
A squirrel can be a service animal, a white man can be a person of color, but a woman can no longer be a woman
Taking a Mile So They’ll Move an Inch
Steyn and Trump then and now, Gosnell the movie, and Bachman-Bachmann Overdrive
The Turning Point
Brett Kavanaugh de-Borks himself, with precious little help from the Republicans
The Majority as Identity Group
A remarkable election in Quebec, and its wider implications
It’s Here, It’s There, It’s Everywhere
Steyn on sexual inquisition, self-awareness and subversion
The Folding Stuff
Mark’s Monday Notebook to start the week: Steyn on GOP spines, second-rate schools, fourth-rate senates, a new political party in Canada, and touching shiny baubles…
The Word That Can’t Be Questioned
The state religion and its heretics
Infame and Great Place
Anyone for tennis?
Odd Couples of the Obituaries Page
Steyn on John McCain and Neil Simon
The Spiller Spilled
Here comes another Aussie PM: Steyn on the rise and fall of backstabber Malcolm Turnbull
The Priorities of US Justice
Deported Nazis, murderous aliens, and flipped minions
A Nation for All Except Its Nationals
Contempt for the citizenry grows ever more open
The “Leaders of Violence” Smashing the Past
America, Britain and Canada opt to live in Pol Pot’s Year Zero
The Surrender of the Public Square
Steyn on street smarts and Smuts-shaming
Back in the Saddle (with One Stirrup)
Simcoe Day in Toronto, French tricolors on Chinese eyeballs, and Gibraltarian composers on the road to LA
The Dissolution of the People
Bertolt Brecht’s advice, as taken up by the new Germany, and France, and Britain…
Sea Change
Italy resists the Age of Aquarius
Soliloquies for Dummies
Steyn on a highbrow De Niro, a lowbrow Trudeau, and a brow-beaten Britain
Swimming with the Tide
There she goes, Miss America
As I Was Saying…
The day after tomorrow, twelve years on:
“Tommy this, an’ Tommy that …an’ Tommy go away”
The British state would rather shoot the messenger
Tinker, Tailor, Clapper, Carter, Downer, Halper, Spy
The investigation into foreign interference with the 2016 election was created as a cover for domestic interference with the 2016 election
“We Don’t Know Who We Are”
Dispatching Bernard, matching Harry, and hatching a subversive play
Friendly Neighborhood Schneiderman
The unusual alter-ego of Samantha Bee’s superhero
The Process is the Punishment (As Always)
Investigation without end
Life Belongs Only to the Strong..?
Steyn on Alfie Evans, Stephen Foster, and Big Climate’s biggest scam
Mark Levin and His “Great Patriot”
When a “great patriot” sues his own “wonderful network”
Pictures From an Exhibitionist
Comedy gold from Mitt Romney, Justin Trudeau, and a defender of scofflaw deadbeats CRTV
Rivers of Blood and the Tides of History
Enoch Powell and a political speech that echoes down the decades
Typhoid and Tambourines
Steyn on a portent of the future; immigration and free speech; why the GOP base despises its leaders; and “Hey, Jude” vs “What a Wonderful World”
The Nation as Insoluble Problem
Mark’s Weekend Notebook – on Syria and Germany, on Germany and Hungary, on Paul Ryan’s long goodbye and George Jonas’ enduring wisdom
Only in America?
A telling moment in Mark Zuckerberg’s congressional testimony
Flacks and Flicks
A trio of Harvard men to start the week: Ted, Tom and Zuck
Diversity unto Death – Literally
Steyn on murder in London and New York, Easter at NBC and NPR, and Islamo-leftie outsourcing to women and children
Stormwatch Update
Media double standards – and a song for Anderson Cooper
The Grand Convergence
The first mass shooter motivated by YouTube “de-monetization” policies
Chivalry and Suicide
Steyn on heroism, depravity and passivity in a dying France
Of the remenant nedeth nat enquere
Telford and the cuckold state
Speakers Cornered
The British state as appeaser and enabler of its enemies
Inclusion Riders of the Showbiz Apocalypse
At the Oscars: no show, no politics, no nothin’…
Everything Must Go! Massive Nationwide Clearance
Steyn on a re-assassinated president, a dress-up prime minister, and a truly brave scientist
A Total Failure of the State
The appalling conduct of Sheriff Scott Israel and his Broward County deputies
The State Submits
European officialdom smooths the path for Islam
Provocations and Transgressions
Terror trials and climate trials – and Steyn talks to The National Post:
Green-Eyed About Brown Eyes
Self-deporting dreamers, canine glass ceilings, and trial by ordeal
An Absence of Mind in the Hindu Kush
Steyn on control-freak “social media”, a re-Talibanized Afghanistan, and an unvetted cabinet minister
Un-Candid in Camera
Steyn on the memo – and what it means
The Constitutional Right to a Long Goodbye
The State of the Union: the speech – and what Trump’s up against…
The Grammy Hall of Lame
Steyn riffles through a potpourri of headlines, from the FISA memo to sharia courtesy of Australian taxpayers
Hump Day
Snapshots of a changing world, from Araby to England
Captain the Illiterate!
Mark with Monday Mohammeds, transatlantic posteriors, and more
Of Sellouts, Sepoys and Superheroes
There was almost too much news these last 24 hours. Mark takes a tour of the headlines…
The Endless Night of the Long Knives
Steyn on stabbings, from Vermont to Ireland
Welcome to the New Year, Same as the Old
Happy New Year to you. On the Eighth Day of Christmas the multiculti fetishists gave to us…
A Three-Hundred-and-Sixty-Se’nnight of Steyn, 2017
Happy New Year! In case you missed it, here’s how the last twelve months looked to Mark…
We Are the Bollards
An “Australian citizen” mows down pedestrians …but don’t worry, it’s “not terror-related”
The Co-Dependents of the “Independent” Counsel
Ten quick thoughts on the hideously corrupted “Russia investigation”
O tempora O Moores
Steyn’s post-mortem on a bizarre Alabama senate race
A Land of Mini-Coups
Steyn on the “Russia investigation”
Many Happy Returns
Steyn on nuptials, taxes, demography, downfalls, and a Congressional thug
The Mood Music of Mohammed
Getting used to it – in Spain and Finland and Belgium …and Buckingham Palace
The Transfiguration of Diana
Steyn on one of the most bizarre weeks in modern British history
Dual to the Death!
Here is a news story that will make no sense whatsoever to anyone who is not Australian – and, indeed, shouldn’t really make any sense even if you are Australian…
Jihad on the Bike Path
We’re gonna need more Diversity Bollards…
How to Steele an Election
The amazing persistence of a worthless dossier
The Rubber Hits the Road
Robert Mugabe, Goodwill Ambassador?
What Happens in Vegas Doesn’t Stay in Reno
In the wake of police bungling in Nevada, the conspiracy theories spread…
Best Not to Mention It
One of the most agreeable features of Common Law used to be its lack of interest in so-called group rights. What mattered was the individual, equal before the law. But that was then and this is now…
Go Big or Go Home
Heading for the exits in England, East Germany, and Catalonia…
The Empty Paddock
I had thought by last night we would know more about Stephen Craig Paddock. By now the usual social-media non-paper trail and petty-crime police records and mental-health issues should have emerged. Instead, nothing has – except some bizarrely distinctive details…
Alternative Reality
On Saturday night, at the end of a speech on immigration, I was asked by a lady in the audience about Sunday’s impending election in Germany. She had met a young Teutonic chappie who said he was voting for Angela Merkel, and she couldn’t understand why. And I said that Frau Merkel was certain to win the election, but what would be important to watch would be the respective strengths of the losing parties – and that AfD would do better than expected…
When Opposite World Moves In Next Door
The internal contradictions of the rainbow coalition
The Language of Losing
Sixteen years after 9/11, a Mad Dog and his insufficient bark
Dreams, Delusions and Duplicity
He’s no Dreamer: Mark on the sentimentalization of public policy
The Coming Terror
The respectable classes and their fetish for thuggery