Reader offer: Paywall down so you can have a look around

Sep 29, 2024

Greetings,

If you are reading this you are one of the thousands of free subscribers to Writing from London. Those who have been here since the start may well have read hundreds of pieces.

So here’s the thing: I am asking you to consider moving up to become a paying subscriber.

You will get access to much more material each week, much more of my writing, all articles, archives and podcasts, and all the debates in the comments sections.

You will also allow me to keep this project going as a journalistic concern without advertising or clickbait or any kind of proprietorial interference, at a time when independent journalism is being hammered by the social media giants.

Annual subscriptions work out at £1.15 ($1.45) a week, which is far cheaper than the cost of the worst cup of coffee you could buy in any country in the developed world!

The annual monthly cost works out at a mere £5 ($6.50) which is the price of one Big Mac (but without the fries).

I accept that we are in hard times and many readers cannot afford to subscribe, which is why I keep half of this site free to read. But I can’t keep doing that unless willing readers who can afford to pay help out.

As an incentive…

I have taken the paywall down so you can have a look round the site. Here are some of my mosy popular pieces of 2024.

They will be free to read for the next few days. Meanwhile I should add that I will send this offer out as a repeat notification for the rest of the week, so please forgive me if it clogs up your inbox.