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Programming note: Please join Mark later today for the exciting conclusion of our current Tale for Our Time - Sapper's Bulldog Drummond.
~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 our Bottom Stories of the Day - the US Democrats' vice-presidential nominee (a man called Tim Walz), and the UK Tories' leadership contenders. However, if you insist, I'll entertain questions on those or any other political trivia. But do bear in mind that the entirety of our civilisation is sliding off the cliff, and posterity would think marginally less of us if we at least showed an awareness of that.
~Once every three or four years, I tweet a tweet. Yesterday I was prompted to do so by a dismal twerp's slandering of my friend and Steyn Show (and cruise) audience favourite, Samantha Smith:
Two of the biggest problems we face today:
- The left in particular thinks labelling equals discussing;
- Narcissist "progressives" such as @chrisby81 think that calling a mixed-race child-rape survivor "a racist who doesn't care about the victims" only confirms their progressive virtue.
We are doomed because @chrisby81 is what passes for a "man" in today's world.
A poignant tweet from dear Samantha:
~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, and especially appreciate those who are having such a great time 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 Texas to Tunbridge Wells, from Vancouver to Vejer de la Frontera, from West Yorkshire to, er, North Yorkshire. Whether 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, 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...