It's Good Friday, and I'll be conducting another edition of our Clubland Q&A live around the planet. We start at 3pm North American Eastern time/8pm British Summer Time. We'll try to pin down the rest of the time zones below, but do, as they say, check local listings.
On today's show I'm happy to take questions on almost anything - with the usual caveat that certain subjects bore me stiff. We shall also have some transcendent music for the season. And, a year after our friend Eva Vlaardingerbroek said we needed more Christianity, I'm happy to hear your thoughts on the state of the Church in this third decade of the third millennium. (By the way, my new book, The Prisoner of Windsor, concludes with a short meditation on the parallel decline of both monarchy and faith in Europe.)
Whether or not you're a member of The Mark Steyn Club, you can listen to our Clubland Q&A live as it happens wherever you chance to be on this turbulent earth: Club membership is required only to ask a question. We love to hear from brand new members, so if you've joined this week, either for a full year or a see-how-it-goes experimental quarter, do shoot me a head-scratcher for today's show. But, if you're not interested in joining, no worries, as they say in Oz: We seek no unwilling members - and as always the show is free to listen to, so we hope you'll want to tune in.
~We will have a brand new Mark Steyn Show for you on Monday. Thank you for all your kind comments about this week's shows. As I've mentioned on air, there are multiple ways to support my important lawsuit against the UK state censor Ofcom in the English High Court, including:
a) signing up a friend for a Steyn Club Gift Membership;
b) buying a loved one a SteynOnline gift certificate; or
c) pre-ordering the above-mentioned Prisoner of Windsor, which is available in hardback and digital edition.
GB News will not be joining me in court. Not for the first time, I'll be fighting an important free-speech battle alone. But the "chilling effect" of Ofcom on public discourse is far worse than Canada under Section 13, so once more unto the breach...
~As for the post-Steyn GB News, its degeneration into a Tories'n'trivia channel is proving a real hit: last night, The Lord President of the Privy Council Hour with Jacob Rees-Mogadon cratered to a new low (24,100) and sank through the hour (17,100) to bequeath just 6,800 viewers for poor Dan Wootton at 9pm. Between the death of Brexit and charisma-free MPs as his new on-air colleagues, dear old Farage has also lost close to two-thirds of his audience - and Patrick Christys at 3.30pm could command only 300 viewers across the British Isles.
GBN broke faith with its audience, and is paying the price. Even so, it's sad to see Nigel reduced to Cameo hits for 72 quid a shot: After getting suckered by IRA supporters, he's now walked into the trap yet again for Led By Donkeys. As Megyn Kelly remarked to me the other day, no self-respecting person in this line of work should be doing Cameo.
~If you enjoy our midweek all-stars - Eva, Leilani and Alexandra - all three of them will be on this summer's Mark Steyn Cruise - because Ofcom can't get you in international waters (we 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.
~As soon as we go live, members should log-in and submit their queries via our comment form below - and I'll answer them as-it-happens on the audio livestream that should magically appear above (or possibly below - I forget which). And, if you disagree with my response, then let rip in the comments, and I'll endeavour to address a couple of the objections as we go along.
Clubland Q&A is a special production for The Mark Steyn Club. We're not paywalling off SteynOnline or any of that nonsense - and in fact this site now offers more free content than ever before in our twenty-year history. But Club membership does confer a few benefits, starting with participation in our weekly Q&As.
So see you back here 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 and Dublin; 9pm in Paris and Berlin; 10pm in Kiev and Moscow, now in the same time zone if not the same country; 10.30pm in Teheran, for all you Newfoundlanders who move to Iran for the half-hour time zone; midnight-forty-five in Kathmandu, for all you Iranians who move to Nepal to check out the quarter-hour time zone; 3am in Singapore, Honkers and Perth (sorry about that); 5am for yesterday's hot cross buns in Sydney and Melbourne; 7am in Auckland and even deeper into the Easter weekend in His Majesty's Dominions across the Pacific.
But, whatever hour it is where you are, we do hope you'll be able to join us. To listen to the livestream, simply click the "play" icon on the audio player (in certain browsers, the audio will start auto-playing). And to pose a question simply use the comment form below.