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Mark Steyn: a hairy, successful version of myself, says Julie Burchill

In a review of The (Un)Documented Mark Steyn, Julie Burchill sympathises with the author’s profound distrust of Islamism and the risk it poses to peace, progress and piano bars

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  • The (Un)Documented Mark Steyn: Don’t Say You Weren’t Warned

    Mark Steyn

    Regnery, pp. 442

For those of you who haven’t had the pleasure, Mark Steyn is sort of a hairy, successful version of me— a civilised, larky type of chap who was just tootling along minding his own biz and scribbling about his favourite show-tunes when — crash, bang, wallop! — he found himself on the frontline of commentating on the clash of civilisations.

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