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Yes, it's me! Mark Steyn of that ilk - and still here, just about, despite the best efforts of Ofcom, the District of Columbia Superior Court and the University of Vermont Medical Center. Nonetheless, I'm semi-raring to go for today's edition of our Clubland Q&A, live around the planet at 3pm North American Eastern - which is 8pm British Summer Time/9pm Central European. If you chance to be elsewhere, do check local listings below.
Lots going on around the world, including the alleged re-animation of the Democrat base in an orgy of joy under the Harris-Walz ticket. The real story of our time - the controlled demolition of western civilisation - continues unperturbed by anything so footling as "politics". In yesterday's column I mentioned en passant the no longer valid distinction drawn in "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" between the glamorous metropolis and the supposedly distant home town of its author's grandparents. A couple of hours later, a British reader drew my attention to this latest development:
It's a short way to Tipperary if you're a young Somali or Afghan male - and that's just how our rulers intend to keep it. Sarah Ludford is an ersatz LibDem "baroness" in the post-Blair House of "Lords":
If #ThisIsLondon then there is no more London, any more than there would be a Karachi or Khartoum on the above population distribution. It is deeply weird to live in such a society, and even weirder - and certainly psychologically unhealthy - to venerate it as an ideal. At the same time, "Baroness" Ludford's page is full of bewildered Tweets about the upsurge in attacks on women on the Tube.
Gee, I wonder why that might be. If you're wondering why her "Ladyship" has an Albanian dressmaker and an Italian neighbour, well, an Italian dressmaker and an Albanian neighbour might expose her a bit too closely to the fruits of "diversity".
Meanwhile, Nigeria has passed a law restoring its old colonial anthem, with music and lyrics by two white English ladies - because they don't have the same pitiful hang-ups as a diseased and depraved mother country that has betrayed its entire civilisational inheritance.
Happy to talk about the above, or anything else on your mind.
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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, 9pm in Paris, 10pm in Jerusalem; half-past-ten in Teheran; midnight-forty-five in Kathmandu; 3am in Singapore and Honkers (sorry about that); 5am in Sydney and Melbourne; 7am in Auckland, and a rather more convivial hour for the kippers and kedgeree in His Majesty's Dominions eastward across the Pacific, where you're so far ahead I've probably already lost my appeal by now...