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EPSIODE 7 of a series of weekly audio sketches from [Autosave is for Wimps].

Each episode is under… ah, you’ve read that bumf six times already. No need for me to type it again. (If you don’t know what I’m talking about, have a look at any of the previous six episodes.)

Anyway, I have decided to follow through with my threat. Here it comes…

‘Con in 60 Seconds’ steps behind the paywall after Easter

Yup, I know it is “after Easter” right now but I’m giving you an extra week of notice. How nice am I? From next week, these audio sketches will no longer be available to free subscribers.

Now you’re getting angry. I can sense the bad vibes.

It’s not that I am taking ‘Con in 60 Seconds’ away from free subscribers so much as boxing it up as a no-extra-cost benefit for paid subscribers to [Autosave is for Wimps].

Yes, I am being a slippery bastard.

But it means that my long-suffering paying readers– and good God, how they have suffered over this last year! – get to keep the fun stuff without paying a penny extra. Those who don’t (or won’t) pay, that’s fine, I understand. Times are hard. You can now return to your previous life of freeloading on Substacks, soup kitchens and shoplifting.

Mind you, paid subscriptions to [Autosave is for Wimps] are cheap! (Unless, of course, you choose the monthly subscription and thereby pay more than twice as much as everyone else.) Take out an annual sub and you’ll get the weekly column AND the audio thing for less than 40 Brexit pennies per week.

I shall keep subscription prices at their current levels until the first week in JULY. This is to allow my lovely early founders who took out their first paid subscription a year ago to renew at the same rates as before and avoid the price rise.

Sorry about putting the price up. UK tax authorities insist that I charge 20% VAT to UK readers because you decided not to be in Europe any more.

So if you are not already a paid subscriber, you have until July to take advantage of the current low price for 12 months. And remember, that paid sub will shortly be the only way you’ll get to hear ‘Con in 60 Seconds’ each week alongside my Friday column.

Here, let me make it easy for you…