Dear Plague Island readers,
We wanted to share a small but significant update about Notes From Plague Island.
For the past year, every article we’ve written - from ‘Hostile Environments: The Toxic Legacy of Brexit Britain’ to ‘The Billionaire Prophet: How Peter Thiel’s Apocalyptic Theology Justifies Dismantling Democracy’ - has been completely free to read. That’s exactly how we want it to stay. We write to be read, not hidden behind paywalls.
But independent journalism doesn’t sustain itself on passion alone. So today, we’re introducing a paid subscriber option; a way for readers who value what we do to support it directly, for about the price of a cup of coffee each month.
Your £3.50/month (or £30/year) helps us:
Keep Notes From Plague Island entirely ad-free and independent.
Dedicate more time to research, writing, and editing.
Build new features that give something extra back to supporters.
In return, we’ll be creating a few additions exclusively for our paid community:
Podcast versions of our articles - read by us, and including our discussions of some articles.
A monthly Letter from Plague Island - a more personal, behind-the-scenes look at what we’ve been thinking, reading, and working on.
Polls and topic suggestions - so you can help shape what we write next.
Everything we currently publish will remain free. The paid tier simply offers those who can a way to help sustain this project, and to join us for a more personal conversation behind the scenes.
For those who’d like to go a step further, we’ve also introduced a Founding Member option (£50 per year). Founding Members receive everything in the paid tier - podcasts, the Letter from Plague Island, and polls - plus a few small personal touches:
Postcards from Plague Island - short, reflective notes just for our most loyal supporters
Personalised thank-yous (with permission) at the end of selected articles and newsletters
This isn’t about tiers of access, it’s about solidarity. Founding Members help keep Notes From Plague Island independent, unfiltered, and answerable only to our readers.
If something we’ve written has made you stop, think, nod, or argue back, please consider supporting Notes From Plague Island for £3.50 a month (or £30 for the year), or £50 as a founding member. It’s a small gesture that makes a huge difference, and it helps us keep this space truly independent.
Thank you, as always, for reading, sharing, and thinking with us.
We’re just getting started.
L&A
Notes From Plague Island