As well as those lead articles available to all our website users, did you know that many of our shorter features can also be read online for free? Every month, you can read David Goodhart’s editorial, our letters page, our news and curiosities, Anthony Grayling’s philosophical response to a question posed by Prospect readers, and my own words column.
Currently, our news and curiosities feature Argentinian salt-farming, disestablishment in the English church, GM foods in Europe, George Steiner on Radio 3, Ken Rudd’s allegiance issues and Vladimir Nabokov’s unpublished work. Plus, Professor Grayling turns his attention to the question “If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, does this make it unimportant?” and I investigate the connections between parlyaree, polari and l33t. And there’s also our “in fact” column, which includes unmissable data on just how many more Chinese people watch premiership football than British people do, and how many bullets it takes to kill an insurgent in Iraq.
As ever, your views and contributions are welcome—whether you have bones to pick with our philosopher-in-residence, or curious words and news you’d like to see explored further in forthcoming issues.
You’d probably get more clicks on those free articles if they were highlighted with the free icon, just like the feature articles are.
I only recently (by pure accident) found some of these articles were available without the need to log in.
And you’re absolutely right…the ‘in fact’ column is unmissable.
Thanks, Martin. Glad you’re enjoying the facts!
And we hope to get your suggestion working soon: it’s painful to think of all the online readers out there who may be unaware of the delights hidden in our free content . . .