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Yes, it's me! Mark Steyn of that ilk - and today I'll be doing something you won't be seeing Kamala the Bringer of Joy do without at least three months of negotiations. I'll be taking an hour of questions on whatever topics you want to raise: collective bargaining, the valued status of Ukraine as a longstanding Nato member, the passage of time, whatever. Our Clubland Q&A starts 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 a flurry of not unconnected developments (as we noted yesterday) on America's big day off. If you'd like to ask me any questions on war escalation, BRICS or related topics, I'm happy to entertain them.

Also: For the next few days, the BBC and others will deign to cover the "refugee" issue, because a dozen mostly Eritrean women and children died in the English Channel. That means, of course, that - as in America with "comprehensive immigration reform" - it will be fraudulently framed as a question of bringing them in in a safer and more efficient manner:

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 in 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 Kent to Korora, from Coolidge to King of Prussia, from Maale Adumim to Morayshire, and from Vancouver (British Columbia) to Vancouver (Washington). 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...