HEEDING THE CALL:

On a brief speaking visit to Florida I spot one remaining copy of Mark Steyn's new book, The Undocumented Mark Steyn (Regnery, £19.99), in a shop. I am reminded of his story of a reader being told in a Canadian bookshop that there was "no call" for one of his books while someone at the end of the very same counter was being told the same thing about the same book.  Accordingly I buy the last copy and check with the nice lady at the till that she'll be reordering. "Sure!" she replies. A bookshop seeking profits and not trying to push Noam Chomsky onto me? Truly America remains the land of the free.

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