McCann in ? Or out ?

As far as I'm aware that was a sticking point at the beginning but is all sorted now

 

I’ve just joined the guardian felt guilty when they kept telling me all the free articles I’ve read. 9 quid a month I was paying more than that for a month of daily mirrors 20 odd years ago

 

Guardian's way is similar to Wikipedia's. Wikipedia is open-source and free to use but they do encourage you to donate to keep the site running.

 

I make a point of buying the physical observer. And fleece the online content midweek.
Bloody handy stuff is newspaper. And it's nice to read something that's not back-lit on a lazy Sunday with me feet up.

 

I hate being drawn into monthly payments. In the case of Wiki and Guardian I just bung them 20 or 30 quid now and again. I've no idea if I'm over or under paying!

 

I sometimes buy the Observer for Sunday afternoons in the pub.
I read the New Statesman my wife buys me a yearly subscription every Christmas.

 

Well with my subscriptions to the Telegraph and Spectator.........just bringing a little balance ;-)

I actually have a useful hack to read paywall articles. When you go to it and the paywall window comes up, simply insert a full stop after the .com or .co.uk in the address bar and hit enter. Voila the wall disappears for that article.

 

It's always interesting how much hesitancy to pay for news articles because people used to get them online for free, but 15 years ago everyone was happy to pay for the paper each week which would have probably been more expensive.

 

You could put the paper at the bottom of the budgies cage, and all sorts of other purposes like lighting the fire after reading it. Good value.

 

And if it was the Daily Star, well, need I say more...

 

Castro's second favourite news source.

 

Which is why it was more expensive.

 

I feel a bit left out here, so I'll come clean. I have an annual subscription with Viz which suits my educational needs. Their journalists appear well informed, so I'm confident most of what I read is accurate, unlike the tosh you get in mainstream newspapers.

Baldrick,
Rorke's Drift,
Natal

 

Does Viz still have the biffas? some comedy gold there what with the Newcastle take over.

 

And the wonderful...

 

Actually that would make a comical story in Viz.... '****wit Football Manager'.... the trials and tribs of a team managed by a ****wit...

 

You'll have to wait for the auto biography

 

I didn't think autobiographies were fictional, that one certainly would be, a new genre perhaps.

 

I'm not sure. I just read the silly letters now and then.