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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. Fingers crossed, I'm 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.

There's plenty going on, across the map: In America, it is the eve of the Glorious Fourth; in Britain, it is the eve of what will prove a somewhat inglorious fourth for Rishi Rich's hideous faux-conservative party. In France, a cynical alliance between Macronist technocrats and hardcore lefties is working hard to deny Mme Le Pen a majority in the National Assembly.

My short take on two of the above:

~In the Fifth Republic, vote Le Pen and RN.

~In the UK, notwithstanding my personal history with Nigel, vote Reform.

As for the third polity, yesterday we noted the creepy, violent and ever more explicit fantasies to which anti-Trumpers are prone. Since then, I see that BBC presenter David Aaronovitch has called on Biden to murder Trump:

Naomi Wolf and I are in the English High Court taking on Ofcom - because on The Mark Steyn Show she called the Covid "vaccine" rollout an act of mass murder, which with every passing day seems incontrovertible. But BBC hosts calling for the assassination of specific named individuals? Any interest in that from commissars Michael Grade and Melanie Dawes?

Ah, no. Chances of "Lord" Grade and Dame Melanie slapping Mr Aaronovitch's wrist: zero per cent. Mr Aaronovitch has now deleted his tweet, while claiming it was obviously "satire".

Can't see it myself. If Trump were to be violently dispatched by the Deep State, Aaronovitch and millions of others would celebrate: they talk about it because they want it to happen; the wish is father to the deed, or so they hope.

You don't even have to be Trump for these guys to urge violence upon you. Our pal Natalie Winters is currently covering for Steve Bannon on his podcast because the regular host has become the latest former Trump official to be packed off to gaol. Do you remember the Lincoln Project? Me neither. But for a while this agglomeration of Never-Trump Republicans was all the rage. They're still around apparently, and Natalie noticed that they've gone to the trouble of making a video fantasising about Bannon getting raped in prison:

The Lincoln Project has got to be pretty lacking in self-awareness to be Lincolnly Projecting this obviously and playing anal rape for laughs. As Natalie observes, the group was founded by John Weaver, a former top GOP "consultant" who likes hitting on fourteen-year-old boys. The Project's principal advantage to Mr Weaver was presumably as a gay paedo front operation, but why they would wish to draw attention to that is a mystery. George Orwell:

Particularly on the Left, political thought is a sort of masturbation fantasy in which the world of facts hardly matters.

But it didn't used to be quite so obvious. These guys talk about raping you and killing you because it turns them on. They're virtue-signalling their vices. It would be unreasonable not to expect one of their acolytes to act upon it. Me a decade-and-a-half ago:

The words of the French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut seem more pertinent: "The lofty idea of 'the war on racism' is gradually turning into a hideously false ideology," he said in 2005. "And this anti-racism will be for the 21st century what Communism was for the 20th century: a source of violence."

Happy to take questions on all the above, or anything else on your mind.

~I'm also up for any queries on my continuing legal battles on both sides of the Atlantic - in the sewer of DC "justice", and against the UK state censor Ofcom in the King's Bench Division of the English High Court. Many listeners have asked how they can support one or other or both of these free-speech lawsuits. There are several ways:

a) signing up a friend for a Steyn Club Gift Membership;

b) buying a near-and-dear one a SteynOnline gift certificate; or

c) ordering a copy of my latest book, The Prisoner of Windsor (you won't regret it, says Kathy Gyngell).

~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. In the first weeks of this eighth year, we cherish all the founders of our Club, but we also love to hear from brand new members. Among the additions to our ranks in recent days are newbies from around the globe - from Nevada to Norfolk, Toms River to Tailem Bend, Tralee (Ireland) to Trafalgar (Nova Scotia). 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...