Can you help this Substack?
I have been watching the number of new subscribers to my Substack grow in recent months and I wanted to take a moment to thank you all for the follows!
2025 has been quite the endurance test for me on this platform but it is motivating to gain your attention and my unpaid subscriber numbers reflect this. Each day I try to put out short punchy content and on a variety of topics! I realise there are a million substacks out there and some of them are truly excellent. However, I try to produce my own stuff and think it distinctive and always comes from a place of passion and intellectual curiousity - with a dash of belligerence thrown in!
However, my paid subscribers are falling and that is not much of a vote of confidence in my work. There are a core of supporters here who think a £5 a month for around 100 articles is a good deal. Can you please consider joining this army?
I make most of my content freely available in the hope that this might lead people to thinking me worthy of a small monthly payment - the equivalent of a large cup of coffee in a coffee house! I don’t want to paywall my stuff as others do but perhaps I am being naive? Prove me wrong!
It is a good deal but when you look at the sheer number of other writers that read on here too it would be akin to a small mortgage if I could pay for everyone. I do enjoy your articles and I always reply to them but right now isn’t a great time financially for many of us so let’s see what happens when this dreadful government are gone and we are all hopefully in a more positive place.
There are a few content providers out there to whom I regularly listen and to be honest I don't financially subscribe to all of them. However, I do value your work David, more than any of the others, so I gladly contribute via a paid subscription each month.
Irreverend with the Rev. Jamie Franklin is another podcast I feel is worthy of paying for.
I certainly prefer paying a little for the podcasts and substacks, than I do the TV licence, which I have to cough up for, if only so that my wife can watch Strictly.
We do live in times in which if we can get something for free, especially online, we often take that option. Sometimes though we need to prioritise what is worthwhile and support it.