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~Happy New Year to our listeners around the globe. According to where you happen to be in this big beautiful world, 2025 was ushered in in the traditional manner: in New York, with an auld lang shove under a subway train; in New Orleans, with a homicidal SUV ploughing into the celebratory crowd; in Berlin, with random stabbings from the usual Multiculti Hogmaniac; in Cliftonville, home to the oldest football club in Ireland, with another mysterious outbreak of Sudden Death Syndrome; in Gants Hill, England, with Jews getting the old Jew-hate from a bunch of socioculturally indeterminate "Asian men" in a Mercedes; in La Roque-Gageac in the Dordogne, with the immolation of the Nativity; and, throughout Europe, with heartwarming scenes of the end of Russian gas supplies...
Oh, but there's always room for New Year innovation: policemen were injured but managed to loose off sufficient firepower to bring to an end the world's first first-footing "excavator rampage". It is not known yet whether the excavator was on a security-services watchlist or had recently aced a de-radicalisation programme.
Nonethess, in Sir Sadiq's London, the gaseous Diversity Bollocks soared into the stratosphere:
The ability to say that with a straight face is why he's got a knighthood and you haven't.
Notwithstanding all of the above, yours truly is back in the saddle for another hour of questions from Steyn Clubbers around the planet, as the world's most uniquely unique "peaceful transition of power" chunters on into its last three idiotic weeks.
This will be our first Clubland Q&A of the New Year, so I'm happy to take your questions on what were the most significant developments of 2024 and what lies ahead for 2025.
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 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 Washington to Waikanae, Bradenton to Brescia, Lincoln, Rhode Island to Lynge, Denmark. 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,11pm in Moscow; half-past-eleven in Teheran; one-forty-five in Kathmandu; 4am in Singapore and Honkers (sorry about that); 7am in Sydney and Melbourne; 9am 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 I've probably already lost my appeal by now...