The IPA’s Freedom Extravaganza Tour with Mark Steyn finished last week. Sold-out events across every mainland capital (sorry Hobart — next time.) Nearly 600 people in Melbourne for Steyn and Andrew Bolt onstage together and 600 for Steyn, Janet Albrechtsen and Tom Switzer in Sydney. Plus a dozen media interviews and an appearance for Mark on Q&A. (They probably call it Q&A because the audience asks the questions and Tony Jones gives the answers.) At our Spectator/IPA event in Sydney it was hard to know who was the bigger star: Steyn or John Howard. It took the former Prime Minister half an hour to get from the front door to his seat in the first row next to Janette. When he entered the room he was mobbed by teenagers, none of whom would have been old enough ever to have voted for him. Meanwhile, it was pleasing to see so many high-profile Liberals — Tony Abbott, Julie Bishop, George Brandis, among others — coming to see and dine with Steyn.
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