Sustainable Scum

Defying the potential risk to revenues, the Murdoch scumbag press is to make selected gobs of its output accessible only to those who can count to two and back a bit. Absorbers of toxic waste who wish to avail themselves of the wit and wisdom of Rod Liddle and Harry Cole will have to pay £1.99 per month for the privilege, and I am sure we all wish them joy of it. The enterprise is called Sun Club, which appropriately evokes a holiday with bludgeons. The Supreme Leader and his minions have tried charging for access before, but lost too many patriots to the online Rothermere Stürmer, which has itself recently introduced a kickback scheme for access to some of its luvvie-baiting, Meghan-bashing and "investigations" sections. It seems that the Supreme Leader's former papers of record, the Murdoch Times and the Murdoch on Sunday, have managed to make a success of their own paywalls, although it remains as yet unclear whether their readers aspire to the level of sophistication that will characterise the patrons of Sun Club.