This Substack Is Going Paid - But Not Like That

A soft paywall begins, but everything else stays exactly as sarcastic, pernickety and emotionally overinvested as before.

Yesterday I put up a poll asking how people would feel about this Substack going paid.

I assumed it would disappear quietly into the timeline, but more than 200 of you voted, and 73% were in favour of either a paid model or a soft paywall. I also got a frankly ridiculous number of kind messages. Some were touching. Some were gently bullying. One or two …