Substack treachery.
Something happened to my Substack account on the 5th January 2026. I didn’t really understand it at the time and found the experience a bit unsettling. I have previously talked about the way in which ALL growth of new subscribers suddenly stopped after rising solidly throughout 2025. I started getting daily email notifications of unsubscribes from free followers which puzzled me. This continues to this very day but then something else happened. This is what I want to share with you.
One of those whose email is unsubscribed is someone that I know very well, a dear friend. So I found it odd that she would have unsubscribed as a free subscriber. So I reached out directly and she had NOT unsubscribed to my substack. Yet her email was still unsubscribed by some other force.
So now I KNOW I have proof that whatever is going on, someone or something in Substack is working against me. Substack wants to ensure I do not grow.
I don’t know why. You guys read my stuff and can judge if it is extreme. I don’t think it is in any way.
But it makes me think about what I should do.
Substack is taking away free subscribers.
Paid subscribers are a different matter. The numbers are modest but they are not going back. So that’s strange. It seems if you become a paid subscriber then you stay with me,
I will continue to write here as I enjoy it but I want to thank everyone who is prepared to pay £5 a month for my content and hope that a few more of you will choose to do so.
Good morning from Canada David. You are correct that Substack is undermining you and it’s happening at their management level.
Every single morning, I wake up to messages I receive from activist shills who share and receive foul anti-Trump messages in the thread conversation. I do not follow these people! I block them and everyday theres a new one with the same crap. I suspect these may not be real accounts; they actually may be Substack staffers themselves - and what does that make them and Substack? Well the answer is Paid Activism. Subscribers are used as feeder corridors for radical anti -Trump opinions. Honestly I cannot look at it any other way! So I copied you on my reply to them this morning. They are a bunch of butt scratchers and nose pickers on the taxpayers dollars and sitting in university and government offices pumping out communist messaging to your subscribers. Enjoy reading the copy i sent to you of my response to Substack. Im going to call out Substack loud and clear every single time.
David, you speak for the majority of ordinary people on most matters. It's only the woke left and the establishment you would think your views extreme.
Too many people have chilled into not saying what they think for fear of what would happen to them. Look at Graham Linehan for example.
Yesterday I picked up a 50p coin to find the word Diversity inscribed on the front. The propaganda is everywhere.
So it's great to have people like you voicing what we think, what was normality, not that long ago.
As a subscriber I'd urge others if they can to do so.
Sometimes you only realise the value of something when it's gone.