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Yes, it's me! Mark Steyn of that ilk - back in the saddle after a three-week absence for another hour of questions from Steyn Clubbers around the planet. Our Clubland Q&A starts live 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.
The debate?
Well, the "moderators" managed to be even worse than the last lot, which I wouldn't have thought possible. But J D Vance handled them better than most Republicans do. The moment when that talentless know-nothing of a CBS bigshot was reduced to cutting off his mike may mark a new low in US election debates.
As for Tampon Tim, if you watched with the sound off, you'd have seen a guy so uncomfortable in his own skin it made you uncomfortable in yours. I would doubt that even those Democrats who'd bought in to the "America's Dad" wankery actually want this guy in their living room every day for the next four years. Granted that everything at this level of American politics is super-plastic and fake, it usually has a certain professionalism about it. It's very weird to have made your way onto a presidential ticket and have, for example, a "resting face" (as they say in telly) that comes over as deeply creepy in every cutaway shot.
With the sound up, he was even worse. I supposed it's just about possible that his claim to be "friends with school shooters" was an unfortunate accident as opposed to just an especially club-footed example of his habitual need to self-aggrandise himself into the centre of every topic. But the problem is that he looks like a guy who's friends with school shooters.
So on today's Clubland Q&A I'm happy to entertain your thoughts on last night, and on anything else you want to raise - including the Middle East, where several members of the SteynOnline team are presently under siege from Iranian missile strikes, or Hurricane Helene, which appears to be of even less interest to the ghastly Yank media than the two Trump assassination attempts.
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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...