The box is at the top so you don't have to read a pitch to find it.

One email, Thursday morning — About a thousand words. Occasionally twice in a week when something can't wait, and that is rare enough to be worth apologising for
Nothing else, ever — No welcome sequence, no second list, no "a quick note from our partner". The address is used for the column and for nothing besides
It isn't sold or shared — Not to a sponsor, not to an analytics company, not as part of anything. If that ever changed you'd be told before it happened rather than in a policy update
No open tracking — Which means the numbers here are honest and small. It also means nobody knows whether you read it, which is how reading is supposed to work
Unsubscribe works — One click, immediate, no survey, no "are you sure". You will not get a final email asking you to reconsider
Reply and a person reads it — Not always quickly. But the replies are the best part of doing this and they are never handled by anybody else

The one about the bus timetable — How a rural route got cut in a consultation nobody in the village was told about. The most-read thing here and the one that changed something
What a planning notice actually means — The one people send to their parents. Written after realising nobody is ever taught to read the notice tied to the lamp post
Against the phrase "lessons will be learned" — Short, cross, and the piece most often quoted back at me
The corrections column, annually — Every mistake made that year, collected, with what caused each one. It is the least-read piece and the one I would keep if I could only keep one
Why the archive stays open — A piece that can't be linked to is a piece that doesn't exist. Locking three-year-old writing behind a payment is a way of un-publishing it slowly
Nothing is ever quietly deleted — If a piece comes down there is a note saying it came down and why. An archive you can't trust is not an archive

The column is free — All of it, every week, forever. That is the thing itself and it is not the sample
Paying gets you the extra one — A second piece each month that takes a fortnight to research. It is the one that costs money to make, so it is the one behind the line
And it keeps the archive open — That is the actual pitch. Paying subscribers are why nothing has to be locked, including the things they paid for
Nobody is paywalled out — Ask and you get the paid tier free, no reason required and no proof asked for. This is said here rather than hidden in a policy page
Cancel whenever — Immediately, from a link in every email, and the rest of the month is not clawed back
What paying doesn't buy — Influence over what gets written, a reply guaranteed within a day, or your press release covered. Worth saying because people do ask

Marked in place, never edited away — The original wording stays visible with the correction beneath it. A silently fixed error is a second error on top of the first
Dated — Every correction says when it was made. A piece that changed six months after publication should look like a piece that changed
Small ones count — A wrong middle initial gets the same treatment as a wrong number. The habit is the point, and habits don't survive being applied selectively
A correction isn't a retraction — Where something is wrong enough to withdraw, the piece stays up with a notice across the top saying so. Deleting it would hide the mistake rather than fix it
How to tell me — Reply to any email, or use the form below. You don't need to be polite about it and you won't be argued with first
What this doesn't cover — Disagreeing with an argument isn't a correction, and it won't be treated as one. Facts get corrected; opinions get answered, in public, under my own name

Cover your product — No sponsored pieces, no gifted anything, no "we'd love to collaborate". There is nothing to buy here and that is deliberate
Write about people who can't reply — Private individuals who happen to be in a story get the choice about whether they are named. Public figures acting publicly do not, and that distinction is the whole rule
Produce a take on demand — When something happens and there is nothing useful to say about it yet, the column says nothing that week. Silence is an available answer
Run a correction as a favour — Corrections are for factual errors. Being unhappy with an accurate piece is not one, however politely the email is worded
Pretend to more certainty than there is — "I don't know" and "this is a guess" appear in the column regularly, and they are load-bearing rather than modest
Take a byline off something — Once published, it stays attributed. Anonymity is agreed before writing or not at all