UPDATE (2:45 p.m. EST): We'll be live in 15 minutes, with guest host Laura Cohen - filling in while Mark is cruising up the coast of Portugal. Don't miss this week's show, and be sure to send your questions. See you soon!

Happy Wednesday to all our readers from around the world.

Another Wednesday means that there is another scintillating Mark Steyn Club Q&A Live Around the Planet just around the corner.

As you know, the Mark Steyn Club cruise set sail earlier this week in Europe (follow the adventure over on X, formerly Twitter, here). The cruisers are having a delightful time on the high seas! Mark, his team and all of his esteemed guests are busy enjoying live shows and hosted receptions, among other fabulous activities. Therefore, this week, our uppity In House Jewish mother, Laura Rosen Cohen will be guest-hosting the show and the fun begins at 3:00 PM ET, 7pm Greenwich Mean Time - which is 8pm in western and central Europe.

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 great time round those parts that they've signed up a chum for a Steyn Club Gift Membership. New members have recently joined from Surrey to Surrey Hills, Vancouver to Virginia, Auckland to Anaheim.

Laura will be happy to take questions from our Club members on any topic that tickles your fancy: from tariff and trans to Teslas and Trump, on Passover and the Exodus or any other Jewy matters that come to mind.

If you've joined this week either for a full year or a see-how-it-goes experimental quarter, we welcome your questions as well.

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.

See you back here at 3pm North American Eastern!