Trial and Tribulation

SteynonLine ^ | June 14, 2024 | Mark Steyn

[Twotone]

Last Wednesday, over lunch, I had another heart attack (mild), necessitating a trip to hospital, where a couple of days later I had yet another (milder). If you're going to have heart attacks, a medical facility (other than the NHS or the University of Vermont Medical Center) is about the best place to have them, so the doctors and nurses couldn't understand why I was so eager to bust free of their ministrations and leap on a flight to Heathrow for the additional stresses of a hearing in the English High Court:

Before MRS JUSTICE FARBEY DBE | COURT 2 | At 10:30 AM AC-2023-LON-001656 The King (on the application of STEYN) v OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS FOR HEARING.

On balance, however, I'm glad I made the journey. On Tuesday morning, I awoke in London to a myriad of supportive and touching emails by a diverse range of persons - from Oscar- and Tony-winners (of my pre-litigation life) to the indomitable survivors of the grisly and ongoing epidemic of child sex-slavery by Muslim rape gangs up and down the spine of England.

I am especially mindful of the latter, because it is why I miss the nightly iteration of The Mark Steyn Show, whereas I don't miss in the least Fox News Primetime or whatever it was called. As the miserable coverage of the UK's Tweedleleft vs Tweedleright election reminds us, politics is covered by the media largely as a closed-shop soap-opera with no real-world meaning: My old home The Spectator is particularly prone to this - "The Wonderful Guilelessness of Rishi Sunak", etc. You would have no idea that the parlour games of Blair and Cameron, May and Johnson, Sunak and Starmer have actual consequences in a vast mountain of ruined lives.

[Jan_Sobieski]

💉

[.30Carbine]

God bless this dear man.

[spankalib]

God Bless Mark!

[sauropod]

bkmk

[pjoseph]

Prayers up for Mark. A hero for justice.