It's Friday, which means I'll be hosting another edition of our Clubland Q&A live around the planet. The action begins at 3pm North American Eastern/8pm Greenwich Mean Time. We'll try to pin down the rest of the time zones below, but do, as they say, check local listings.
As always, we'll take questions from Mark Steyn Club members across the globe on a wide range of issues. As I've discussed this week, with Megyn Kelly and with Leilani Dowding, on both sides of the Atlantic the Great Walkbackening of the Covid years proceeds apace but in an obviously dishonest way. The people who wanted dissenters to be fired from their jobs (everywhere), denied medical care (Canada), prohibited from buying groceries (Germany), quarantined in prison camps (Australia), liable to criminal prosecutions with fines and gaol sentences (Austria), and are still using state power to torment Covid "criminals", those same people now expect the masses to be content with:
Well, yeah, mistakes were made. We were following the science, but there wasn't really much science to follow, so some of us got carried away. But we were all in this together. So let's forgive and forget.
Because that way they get to do it all over again next time.
A significant chunk of the public seem to get the fakery behind Fauci's sudden conversion to the lab-leak theory and the release of the UK "lockdown files". If, for example, GB News were really the "disruptor" its woeful CEO Angelos Frangopoulos keeps claiming it to be, this would have been a boffo week for ratings: the BBC/Sky propaganda of the last three years has collapsed, so where else would you turn for an honest appraisal but the soi-disant Disruptor? Instead, it's been yet another week of deathbed numbers for CON (Controlled Oppo News): Bev Turner was down to 3,400 viewers at one point yesterday. Because the kind of people who would like an alternative to the suffocating Covidprop of the last three years grasp that GBN has abandoned its mission. You can't be a "disruptor" when your flagship show is The Lord President of the Privy Council Hour hosted by a guy who's indisputably one of them not one of us. Controlled oppo covering mea controlled culpa.
So we'll get into that and anything else on your mind. Whether or not you're a Steyn Clubber you can listen to our Clubland Q&A live as it happens wherever you chance to be on this turbulent earth: membership is required only to ask a question. We love to hear from brand new members, and we are delighted to say that this week yet again we have been deluged by many new members who've chosen to follow The Mark Steyn Show to its new home. So if you've joined the Club in recent days - or re-joined (as several lapsed members have), either for a full year or a see-how-it-goes experimental quarter, do shoot me a head-scratcher for today's Q&A, and I will do my best to get to it.
~We will have a brand new Mark Steyn Show for you on Monday. I cannot tell you how immensely grateful I am to those Steyn Show guests who have chosen to stick with me rather than kiss up to my successor as GB News 8pm host. I am forever in the debt of Eva, Leilani, Alexandra et al - all of whom will be on this summer's Mark Steyn Cruise - because Ofcom can't get you in international waters (I think). No tests, no vax passports, but just a week of fun on the Adriatic with the aforementioned ladies plus Mr Snerdley, Michele Bachmann and other Steyn Show favorites. More information here.
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So make sure you join us live this afternoon at 3pm North American Eastern Time. That's 4pm in the Canadian Maritimes, half-past-four in Newfoundland - and, beyond the Americas, 8pm in London; 9pm in Paris; 10pm in Kiev; 11pm in Moscow; half-past-eleven in Tehran, for all you Newfoundlanders who move to Iran for the half-hour time zone; 1.45am in Kathmandu, for all you Iranians who move to Nepal to check out the quarter-hour time zone; 4am in Singapore, 7am in Sydney, 9am in Auckland, and Saturday lunchtime in His Majesty's Dominions across the Pacific.