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Fake Nobel Winner found "responsible" in $9M lie to DC jury. snip BREAKING: The Superior Court in DC just NUKED disgraced climate scientist Michael Mann AGAIN. Last year, Mann was sanctioned for "knowingly feeding the jury false data" in a manner of misconduct that was "extraordinary in its scope, extent, and intent." Today, the court doubled... pic.twitter.com/fQff5YsM7V — Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) January 22, 2026 Here are some highlights from today's decision (my emphasis in bold): The Court has considered Dr. Mann's request for reconsideration. For the reasons Mr. Simberg and Mr. Steyn articulated orally during in-court arguments and presented in...

In her autobiography A Lonely Life, Bette Davis remembers making All About Eve with none of the rancour or drama that should provide all the dirt an essayist would look for when writing about the film. Her part was supposed to go to someone else, but when Claudette Colbert injured her back while filming Three Came Home, director Joseph L. Mankiewicz had producer Darryl F. Zanuck call Davis. "I can think of no project that from the outset was as rewarding from the first day to the last," she writes. "It is easy to understand why. It was a great...

The unravelling of the world continues: ~Er, so Arab nations no longer want their children studying at Oxford and Cambridge because England's too full of crazy Muslims... Absolutely insane headline https://t.co/mZRezpmau8 — JD Vance (@JDVance) January 9, 2026 ~Our friend Naomi Wolf - when she's right she's right: Okay, I'll just say it. I've seen enough videos of the faces of liberal white women in conflict with @ICE, to know what is up. Liberal men at this point (sorry) are disproportionately estrogenized, physically passive, submissive due to woke gender hectoring, or porn-addicted. White liberal women are disproportionately sexually frustrated. Policing...

"If I wanted to sharpen both prongs of his (Steyn's) thesis, I would also propose the following: 1. An end to one-way multiculturalism and to the cultural masochism that goes with it. The Koran does not mandate the wearing of veils or genital mutilation, and until recently only those who apostasized from Islam faced the threat of punishment by death. Now, though, all manner of antisocial practices find themselves validated in the name of religion, and mullahs have begun to issue threats even against non-Muslims for criticism of Islam. This creeping Islamism must cease at once, and those responsible must...

As a new year begins, it is sobering to find that one has outlived national stereotypes that endured for generations. A hundred and thirty-seven years ago, when I was just venturing out into the world, the universally acknowledged joke was some variant of:In Heaven the chefs are French, the lovers are Italian, the engineers are German, the police are British, and it's all run by the Swiss.In Hell the chefs are British, the lovers are Swiss, the engineers French, the police German and it's all run by the Italians.How we all laughed!Of course, times change. I was trying to work...

It was somewhat surprising, and a little dispiriting to me, the number of counter-arguments that - even at the website of a far-right madman - framed what is now an existential crisis for the entire west in sentimentalist and pseudo-mystical terms, if not explicitly left-wing ones - such as "nation of immigrants". As to the broader arguments about America as a "proposition nation", here is one response to Vivek Ramaswamy:Cernovich @Cernovich · Follow Everyone claiming America is a creedal nation should move to Liberia - a country with a Constitution broader and more protective of civil rights than our own....

As it's our final show of the year, I'd like to keep it a little more focused than usual - and concentrate on the existential question now facing some of the oldest continuous states on earth: what is a nation? At AmFest and in The New York Times, Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy returned to his contention that America is an "idea" and, if you're onboard with the "idea", you're as American as anybody else. One might formulate the "idea" as a "dream", as Vivek does:It is called the American Dream for a reason. There is no Canadian Dream. There...

On Saturday's On the Town I played the late Ted Egan's classic song "We Got Some Bloody Good Drinkers in the Northern Territory" - and wondered afterwards: "Does it get any more Australian than that?" Answer came there less than twenty-four hours later. Wherever you live in the west, "diversity" seems to be making us all the same: one big rapey-stabby blood-drenched craphole. That said, Sydney's Jew-slaughter was of sufficient scale to obscure America's two simultaneous Hannukah attacks - in Los Angeles and at Brown University, the would-be killer and actual killer still at large. As I first wrote all...

Are you digging the World War Two analogies? Everyone's the new Hitler, because he's the only historical figure anyone's ever heard of. At their Monday-night poker game in hell, that no-name Jap guy must be wondering why he's chopped liver, but it's probably racist to bring that up. World War Two "presupposes there was a World War One, right?" - as the late William Henry III claimed to have heard an American college student formulate it. No one knows anything about that either, but it left almost all the great empires in ruins, and thus bequeathed us the dawn of...

In the year 2000, The United Nations General Assembly designated November 25th as the "International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women" - "The premise of the day is to raise awareness around the world that women are subjected to rape, domestic violence and other forms of violence." How's that going? Twenty-five years later, a man who abused his ex, stole her name and entered the women's locker room at Gold's gym is the one being protected: Surprise! The man in the women's locker room at Gold's Gym is a convincted felon who did time for domestic violence. This...

William F Buckley Jr. was born one hundred years ago today. He died in 2008 of complications from diabetes and emphysema less than a year after he lost his beloved Patricia . Here is what Mark wrote shortly thereafter: If you were running one of those Frank Luntz machine-wired focus groups to produce the ideal conservative leader for America, I doubt you'd come up with an urbane patrician harpsichordist who lived part time in Switzerland and was partial to words like "eremitical" and "periphrastic." "It's the epigoni, stupid" is not a useful campaign slogan – although, in fact, a distressingly...

~I'm old enough to remember when stand-up comedians did rape jokes. Not very good ones, but jokes nonetheless. Ricky Gervais revived this one to discuss its contemporary acceptability or otherwise on a Netflix special a few years back, but I heard it first time round on telly back in the Seventies, when no one batted an eyelid: So the missus comes back from the park and says, 'I've just been graped.' I said, 'Don't you mean raped?' She said, 'No, there was a bunch of them.' Got a big laugh. Of course, in those days, out in real life it...

On Friday at Steyn HQ, we received an inquiry from a reporter seeking a comment on "the agreement between Mann and NRO." Unfortunately, having had no communication from our "co-defendants" National Review (NR), we had to scramble around a bit to figure out what the reporter was talking about. A different publication, The Daily Pennsylvanian, reports: Penn professor Michael Mann has reached an agreement with the National Review that releases him from paying the company's remaining legal fees from his defamation case in exchange for dropping ongoing litigation against the magazine. It turns out, in classic National Review fashion, they...

In a stunning decision issued by the UK Court of Appeals (Civil Division) earlier today, Mark's former colleague at GB News Laurence "Lozza" Fox has been delivered a sweet victory in a five year long case involving three individuals who falsely accused him of being racist. As a result, Lozza will be owed some serious money (seven figures) as well as receive his day in court against his defamers. Here's what he had to say about the court's ruling: I am delighted and grateful that the Court of Appeal has ruled in my favour on my appeal today, ruling that...

~As you know, I regret that Donald J Trump is susceptible to the blandishments of the Royal Family. Likewise, I regret that he seeks the validation of the King of Norway and the Nobel Peace Prize Committee. I have had little regard for the latter at least since they enNobelled the world's Numero Uno celeb terrorist and Slav rent-boy addict Yasser Arafat. By comparison, this year's winner, the little-known Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, seems a more or less deserving winner. As for Trump getting frosted out, Reuters reports: Ahead of the Nobel announcement, experts on the award had...

Two years ago, I woke up to reports that something was up in Israel. I filed my first reaction when there were just - just - a hundred and fifty dead. That corpse count rose quickly through the day to 1,200 - the highest number of slaughtered Jews since the Second World War. But, even in those early hours, the nature of the event was clear: The hippie chicks seized at a near parodic peacenik music festival, raped to death, and then taken as hunting trophies to have their corpses paraded bloody and naked through the streets of Gaza as...

snip To apportion blame more widely, the "Palestinian" question is intractable in part because it has had the misfortune to attract a unique amount of interference from the international do-gooder set. Re all this Euro-Commonwealth recognition of a non-existent Palestinian "state", I said the other day that the Organisation of Islamic Co-operation didn't need another krappistan to add to the five dozen UN votes they already have. But it's actually worse than that: were "Palestine" to rouse itself to rise to the low-grade dysfunctional level of your typical no-name Islamic krappistan, it would be a marvel to behold, and we...

Two years ago, after some medical treatment following my third heart attack following the Mark Steyn Adriatic Cruise, I took a cab to Milan's central station to board one of the most agreeable trains I've ever ridden. The dining car had an excellent wine list, better than most restaurants.I don't recall the station being quite as impressive as the train, but it had a handsome atrium. I remember standing awhile and looking up at the ceiling. I wouldn't do that today, because I might fail to spot the incoming projectile and duck in time. This was the scene yesterday:(video at...

Because they made the mistake of sabotaging his escalator and then his prompter, the President of the United States opened up a supersized can of geopolitical whup-ass on the UN General Assembly this week, pithily summarised by many headline-writers thus:Trump's middle finger to the UN: 'Your countries are going to hell'In fairness, this insight was mainly directed at America's "allies" in Europe. The particular hell they are going to will not be news to those who've swung by this shingle over the last twenty-three years, but I thought it might be worth doing a brisk tour d'horizon of where we're...

I regret that the President of the United States is quite so susceptible to the blandishments of a dying monarchy. While he was swanking about Windsor Castle, just a few miles away this was happening to one of his fellow Americans:The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion 🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: An American cancer patient and Trump supporter was confronted by British police and told to apologise for her online posts or face an investigation. Deborah Anderson, a mother of two, was visited at her home in June by an officer from Thames Valley Police. He told her someone had lodged a complaint about her...