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AMERICA ALONE by Mark Steyn Regnery Publishing,

Between the revolution and the firing squad, a Russian aristocrat once observed, there is always time for a bottle of champagne.

Between the demographic disaster and the collapse of Western civilisation, Mark Steyn appears to believe, there's always time for a rip-roaring op-ed and a series of blistering jokes.

No writer I ...

London 'Where did it all go?' asks Mark Steyn VV in the National Review, talking about airline service, or the lack of it, rather. Well, I read the piece before getting on a BA flight from the Bagel to London in order to prepare myself for the worst, and I had a very nice surprise as a result. Mind you ...

From Matthew Hall Sir: While normally an admirer of Mark Steyn's abrasive and incisive style, his assertion ('Hold your tears', 20 August) that Cindy Sheehan, the anti-war protester camped outside Crawford Ranch, 'is having a mental breakdown in public' was ungallant and therefore reprehensible. He made an excellent point -- that certain Democrats are cynically exploiting her grief at the ...