Friday May 13th :: SteynOnline

It’s Friday, and that means I’ll be conducting another edition of our Clubland Q&A live around the planet. The action begins at 5pm North American Eastern time/10pm British Summer Time. We’ll try to pin down the rest of the time zones below, but do, as they say, check local listings.

We’re celebrating the fifth anniversary of The Mark Steyn Club, so you’re welcome to tell me what you like and dislike about it, what you’d like more of, what you’d like less of. We thank all our First Week Founding Members from May 2017 who’ve decided to re-up for a sixth year. Among them is Peggy Overton, moving her own Overton window:

I love Mark! His insights are invaluable. His appreciation of the arts makes my life richer. Fight on, Mark! You have my support.

Thank you, Peggy. And we hope in the days ahead our First Fortnight Founding Members will be likewise enthusiastic about signing up for the start of our second half-decade.

Aside from birthday greetings and grievances, on today’s show I’m also happy to take questions on any of the subjects we’ve talked about in recent days, plus anything we haven’t gotten around to – with the usual caveat that certain subjects bore me stiff.

Whether or not you’re a Club member you can listen to our Clubland Q&A live as it happens wherever you chance to be on this turbulent earth: membership is required only to ask a question. We love to hear from brand new members, so if 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.

As soon as we go live, members should log-in and submit their queries via our comment form below – and I’ll answer them as-it-happens on the audio livestream that should magically appear above (or possibly below – I forget which). And, if you disagree with my response, then let rip in the comments, and I’ll endeavour to address a couple of the objections as we go along.

Clubland Q&A is a special production for The Mark Steyn Club. We’re not paywalling off SteynOnline or any of that nonsense – and in fact this site now offers more free content than ever before in our nineteen-year history. But Club membership does confer a few benefits, including not only participation in our Q&As but also access to Tales for Our Time, our Sunday Poems and much more.

So see you back here live this afternoon at 5pm North American Eastern Time. That’s 6pm in the Canadian Maritimes, half-past-six in Newfoundland – and, beyond the Americas, 10pm in London and Dublin; 11pm in Paris and Berlin; midnight in Kyiv and Moscow, now in the same time zone if not the same country; half-past-one in Tehran, for all you Newfoundlanders who move to Iran for the half-hour time zone; 2.45am in Kathmandu, for all you Iranians who move to Nepal to check out the quarter-hour time zone; 5am in Singapore, Honkers and Perth (sorry about that); 7am in Sydney and Melbourne, and an even more convivial hour for the kippers and kedgeree in Auckland and beyond.

But, whatever hour it is where you are, we do hope you’ll be able to join us. To listen to the livestream, simply click the “play” icon on the audio player (in certain browsers, the audio will start auto-playing). And to pose a question simply use the comment form below.