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Yes, it's me! Mark Steyn of that ilk - back on dry land after the 2025 Mark Steyn Cruise and back for another hour of questions from Steyn Clubbers around the planet. The fun starts at 3pm North American Eastern - which is 8pm in the British Isles and 9pm in western and central Europe.
Lots going on around the world:
~The Attorney-General of New York, Letitia James, is an evil woman. Without charging VDare.com with a single crime, she has managed to bankrupt them and vaporise a quarter-century of their labours.
Her more famous "lawfare" was, of course, against Donald J Trump. As Ms James crowed on Twitter just last year:
The US Federal Housing Finance Agency has now referred Letitia James to the Department of Justice for prosecution. Unlike VDare, Ms James has apparently committed an actual crime. So what is it? Well, she "lied to a bank to get a mortgage", and so now the government is throwing the book at her. One of the lies wasn't even particularly subtle: she claimed to be a permanent resident of Virginia at the time she was serving as Attorney-General of New York. Which seems unlikely, even in a corrupt dump like the Empire State.
There are also two mortgages in which Ms James obtained "better loans" by claiming that she and her father are "husband and wife". This appears to be false. Say what you will about Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, but at least she took the trouble actually to marry her brother.
As Ms James says, "When powerful people cheat to get better loans, it comes at the expense of hardworking people." Is it a capital offence? I certainly hope so.
~More courtroom news: Up north, the corrupt Canadian state has decided that it is necessary, pour encourager les autres, to gaol the organisers of the 2022 truckers' convoy:
The only people who should be in gaol over the events of three years ago are the mammy-singer PM and those around him who improperly invoked emergency war-powers legislation. "Bring the administration of justice into disrepute"? We're way beyond that: There is no equality before the law, which is the essential feature of a free society.
Speaking of which, breaking news from the wretched English High Court:
~Also breaking: Tony Blair's woeful "Supreme Court" has defined a woman and ruled that it is "beyond the competency of the Scottish Government" - as are most things.
~On the free-speech front, rather than submit to the strictures of "Lord" Grade, Dame Melanie Dawes and OfCom, Gab has become the latest Internet platform to pull out of the United Kingdom, calling its government a "tyrannical regime":
~Happy to take your thoughts on any or all of the above - or indeed, for Steyn Cruisers, on what you made of our April excursion round Iberia. Whether or not you're a member of The Mark Steyn Club, you can listen to our show 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, and especially appreciate those who are having such a grand time around these parts that they've signed up a chum for a Steyn Club Gift Membership. Among the additions to our ranks in recent days are newbies from around the globe - from Boca Raton to Bexhill on Sea, Munich to Monterey, Canberra to Carthew Bay. 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. So see you back here at 3pm North American Eastern - which is 8pm in London and Dublin, 9pm in Paris and Berlin, 10pm in Kiev and Moscow; half-past-ten in Teheran; midnight-forty-five in Kathmandu; 3am in Singapore and Honkers (sorry about that); 6am in Sydney and Melbourne; 8am in Auckland, and an even more convivial hour for the kippers and kedgeree in His Majesty's Dominions eastward across the Pacific, where you're so far ahead Michael E Mann's probably lost his appeal by now...