The Times and Spectator subscriber offers

[ShotsFired]

In case anyone is dithering over subs to either publication:

A while ago I posted a trial subscription offer from The Times, which was 3 months for £3 (I am not sure if it's still available as I am a subscriber so it doesn't show me!). But it has been very well worth it - and not only for the frequent relevant links posted here.

Anyway, I rang to cancel this week, and was offered a new online sub for £2/week, no min term. Given the full price is something like £25/month, this seems like a very fair deal for the journalism being produced.

I also signed up to The Spectator on a trial of 12 issues for £12. After I did that they showed me a referral offer which was 15 issues of The Spectator for £12 (and as of today a nice Moleskine notebook for the subscriber and - to be upfront - a £20 Amazon card for the referrer).

Who would have thought a few years ago that there would be Times and Spectator subscription offers shared in the MN feminism topic and that seem helpful and relevant rather than bizarre

Interesting. I'd be reluctant to subscribe to the Times due to marching at Wapping in the 80s and Murdoch avoidance ever since but am tempted by the Spectator

And I would never have thought that I would be reading, and agreeing with, articles in the Morning Star!

I think that the fact that women from across the political spectrum are pulling together speaks volumes.

I've read some great articles in The Spectator today. Really liked this one.
www.spectator.co.uk/2018/03/transgender-activists-and-the-real-war-on-women/

I also was at Wapping in the 80s. But I don't think the left speak to women anymore, if they ever did. Actually the older I get, the more I feel that the most overwhelming characteristic that I have is that I am a woman. It affects me far more than my race, my class or my education.

The scales have truly fallen from my eyes of late.

Thanks @ShotsFired - my Times sub has gone onto the full price so I'm going to call to cancel and see what they tempt me with :)

Strange times are these in which we live ...
The money I used to spend on a Saturday Guardian now goes towards a copy of the New Statesman

The left were responsible for the minimum wage and extending maternity benefits that benefit women (although if they get extended a lot that can work against women being employed in small businesses compulsory shared parental leave might be more effective). I also don't like the capitalist just improve the wealth of society by getting people to produce and buy more stuff ideology.

The hatred towards women, from the letters column in the spectator is as frightening as the TRAs. Actually I strongly suspect a lot of them are in the TRAs and this is giving them an opportunity to ‘get their own back’ on women for simply having the audacity to want equality.

I'm goin gto subscribe to The Spectator, OP, if you want to refer me

Have just subscribed to the spectator. I feel sad because I used to walk round town hunting down Saturday Guardians and being annoyed at them always running out first in shops but now I feel its values have changed and it doesn't like women very much, at least not middle aged women brought up on Germaine Greer, Bea Cambell and Simone de Beauvoir where we fought to reject the stereotyping of women and not let men tell us what to do and stifle debate.
It seems almost cultish. In many cults the women are expected to be passive and sleep with the guru or the man of the guru's choosing and do the jobs assigned to them, in this leftish nightmare we have to accept men who've decided they're women too take our places and have more power than us because they mustn't be offended or face biological facts where as we can be reprimanded and disciplined for getting out of line and not reciting our mantra "we can all be whatever gender we want" passively like good girls.

For what it's worth, when you do the Spectator subscription, you also get a 3 free month sub to the Telegraph too.

Breadth of news sources is always good, and I have seen a few links to them here recently too.

@CapnHaddock did you get the cheapo offer too?

@misscockerspaniel yes I agree with your point 100% too.

If you have a student card, or someone in your household does, you get one year’s access to the Times website and iPad app for £2/month.