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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, but, for those who miss the show's musical interludes, I'm thinking maybe we should start with the national anthem as rendered by America's favourite sister act:
The point about these hideous quadrennial conventions is that they're supposed to be slick pap. Unfortunately, when you take DEI as seriously as the Dems, the "slick" is increasingly beyond you.
Elsewhere, and further to yesterday's column, news from once sleepy Dorset via our fearless friend Sammy Woodhouse:
Our "Diversity Stabbing of the Day" feature may have to become hourly. In other Euro-stabbing news:
Essonne: Woman stabbed in the neck in the street after refusing the sexual advances of a stranger
The knife attack took place on Tuesday evening at the exit of the Savigny-sur-Orge railway station. A 45-year-old Moroccan-born man, under the influence of alcohol, has been taken into custody.
That last sentence is more straightforward than anything that appears in the British press these days.
The connection between "sexual advances" and diversity-stabbings might be worth exploring, given that England & Wales has apparently overtaken Sweden to become the rape capital of Europe.
Happy to talk about any aspect of the above, or whatever else is 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...