From today's Times of London:
Britain has become a Mark Steyn-free zone. The Canadian neocon cheerleader (and, if his byline pic was anything to go by, Wookie) ceased his Telegraph column at the end of last year and now his Spectator pieces have followed suit. According to his assistant, Steyn misses his British outlets. Should we wish to feel unaccountably angry about Muslims or pacifists we shall have to seek our reading matter abroad.
Looks like he'll have to redesign the, ahem, the right side of his website.
There are no deets. I don't know if it was a happy parting of the ways.
As for the Telegraph, it was part of the Conrad Black empire, and Steyn, who used to write for the National Post until his Lordness sold it, is very much a part of the Con con sphere. Which perhaps explains his recent hoisting up the masthead of Maclean's by publisher/editor Kenneth Whyte, founding editor of the Post.
You see how these things are all connected, don't you?
Let's hope Mark Steyn-freeness is infectious.
Posted by: Tom | March 08, 2006 at 09:33 PM
Frank Magazine used to have a great word for people like this: Fartcatcher.
Posted by: | March 08, 2006 at 10:15 PM
I hope this is not self-censorship on the part of the Telegraph, for fear of a backlash.
Guardian columnist Lionel Shriver has a good
piece on him,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,1726727,00.html
he was a extreme on many things but was fun to read,I hope some you are not threatened by him.
Posted by: Stephen Reevess | March 09, 2006 at 10:14 AM
Actually, Steyn often makes me laugh out loud, both with him and AT him. He is certainly a far more entertaining and trenchant and a good deal less strident and pedantic than certain unnamed columnists who share most of his neocon views.
Posted by: Antonia | March 09, 2006 at 11:28 AM
Steyn is not angry at Muslims, he's angry at Ismamists, Islamic terrorists, and their Western apologists.
Posted by: Johan i Kanada | March 09, 2006 at 03:59 PM
I think sometimes Steyn was a bit too anti muslim, and could have influenced predjuced minds the wrong way.
Posted by: Stephen Reevess | March 09, 2006 at 05:13 PM
Steyn has turned into a blithering blowhard whose columns just get longer and longer because he loves to hear himself talk. At least the Brits have told him to shut up. Others should follow suit. I'm a conservative and I can't even stand reading this idiot.
Posted by: Glowbull | March 11, 2006 at 02:19 AM