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Yes, it's me! Mark Steyn of that ilk - back in the saddle for another hour of questions from Steyn Clubbers around the planet. Our Clubland Q&A starts live at 3pm North American Eastern - which this week only (because of the clocks going back on one side of the Atlantic but not the other) is 7pm Greenwich Mean Time/8pm Central European. If you chance to be elsewhere, do check local listings below.
What to talk about? Well...
Kamala's media surrogates are scrambling to explain that it was the return of Biden's famous childhood stutter, but the high-rollers of the Harris donor class are cheerily admitting: Nah, Joe's nailed it. From Vinod Khosla, billionaire Kamala backer and founder of Sun Microsystems:
The point to remember about Joe Biden is that, before he degenerated into a brain-dead husk, he was always (as John O'Sullivan described him on The Mark Steyn Show nearly three years ago) "a nasty sonofabitch". Now that they no longer have to wheel him around pretending he's president and he's resting up at his Delaware beach house all week, he's reverting to SOB type. The timing of this - dismissing half of America as "garbage" right in the middle of Kamala's big "closing message" rally in DC - is worthy of the old Joe.
Nevertheless, excited Trump voters should remember that in America the two-year "campaign" is mere prologue to the season of shenanigans. A week before the commencement of America's uniquely unique "peaceful transfer of power", it's business as usual in the most secure election system known to man:
Ballots set on fire in three states as Election Day approaches
But don't worry, the votes that don't get incinerated are totally secure ...for the most part:
~Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, the corruption of English justice continues. Three months after the slaughter of three little girls in Southport, the perp, Axel Rudakubana, a man "originally from Cardiff" with mental-health issues, has been belatedly revealed to be in possession of The al-Qaeda Training Manual and supplies of ricin. So the instincts of all those "far right" Tweeters and Facebookers were largely correct, which is why Sir Keir and his Starmtroopers held back the info until they'd all been gaoled or driven to suicide.
Because, as Joe Biden would say, they're also garbage.
~On today's Clubland Q&A I'm happy to entertain your thoughts on all the above, or on anything else you want to raise. 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 the Gaspé to Guernsey, Wrexham to Rushcutters Bay, Whistler to White Bear Lake. 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 (this week only) is 7pm in London, 8pm in Paris, 9pm in Jerusalem; 10pm in Moscow; half-past-ten in Teheran; midnight-forty-five in Kathmandu; 3am in Singapore and Honkers (sorry about that); 6am in Sydney and Melbourne; 8am 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...