Welcome to the New Look Daily Sceptic (and Please Make a Donation)

As you can see, we’ve given the Daily Sceptic a facelift in an effort to improve the reader experience, and we thought we’d take this opportunity to ask our generous readers to dip into their pockets to help keep the show on the road.

As regular readers will know, donations from readers are more or less our only source of revenue. Yes, we average 1.25 million page views a month, which is more than the New Statesman, the Morning Star and Novara Media combined. But thanks to the censorious activities of companies like NewsGuard – whose most recent efforts to demonetise the Daily Sceptic Will Jones wrote about here – we struggle to attract any advertising. This is a prime example of the censorship-industrial complex at work. So please make a one-off donation or become a regular donor on our donate page – it’s the only way we can survive.

Remember, if you donate a minimum of £5 a month or £50 a year, you’ll get the following benefits:

• You’ll be able to read the articles behind our paywall
• You’ll receive those paywalled articles in the daily email newsletter
• You’ll be able to watch or listen to the premium version of our weekly podcast
• You’ll be able to comment below the line on all our articles
• You’ll have the option of listening to all our articles instead of reading them

If you haven’t already set up an account and you’re making a one-off donation for the first time, you’ll be sent a link to the email address you enter when you make the donation. Click on that link and follow the instructions to set up an account. Once you’ve done that, you will automatically be able to access the premium perks. If you haven’t set up an account and you’re making a monthly or annual donation for the first time, you won’t be sent a link. Rather, you’ll be asked to set up an account with an email address, public username and password and, when you’ve done that, you’ll automatically be logged in and able to access the premium benefits.

If you already have an account, whether because you set one up to receive the daily email newsletter or because you’ve donated before, just make sure to log in before donating. (The log in button is in the top right-hand corner of the screen if you’re reading this on a desktop or laptop, or at the top of the hamburger menu in the top left if you’re reading this on a phone or a tablet.) If you make a one-off donation, any credit will automatically be added to your account. If you want to increase you’re monthly or annual donation, log in to your account, click on “Subscriptions”, then click on “Change Plan” and you’ll see some different recurring amounts in a drop-down menu.

There are more details about donating and accessing the premium benefits on our Premium page, which you can access here.

For a long time, I resisted introducing a paywall because I think it’s important our content reaches as wide an audience as possible. However, I wanted to give readers a real incentive to support our work by becoming regular donors, so decided to put one article a day behind a paywall. The rest of the content is free, but to keep it that way we really need your support.

Over the next few weeks we’ll be parting company with Donorbox – so you’ll now be making a donation directly to us. Not only will this mean we won’t have to pay Donorbox a commission, it will make it easier for you to manage your donation. We will continue to use Stripe for all payments – the same secure payment platform used by Donorbox – so no action will be required on your part: all your payments remain completely safe, unaffected and still handled entirely by Stripe. In fact, without the Donorbox middleman, you’ll no longer have to leave our website to manage your account. You can manage your subscription and payment details on our website – even cancel your subscription (although we hope you don’t). For those of you already donating via Donorbox, we’ll migrate you over to the new system over the next few weeks and you, too, will be able to access all your subscription and payment details by clicking on your account button once you’ve logged in. If you’re accessing the Daily Sceptic on a desktop or laptop, the account button is in the top right-hand corner of the screen (see below). If you haven’t logged in yet, that account button will simply say “Log in”, so just log in to see your account details.

If on a phone or a tablet, click on the hamburger menu in the top left-hand corner of the home screen and then click on the “My Account” button at the bottom of the menu.

Alternatively, if you’re already logged in, you can click here.

So, if you value what we do, please think about making a donation. We’re only able to continue producing such high-quality journalism by employing four members of staff – Will Jones, Richard Eldred, Laurie Wastell and me – and by paying our stable of regular contributors, including Steven Tucker, Chris Morrison, Noah Carl, Charlotte Gill, Paul Homewood, James Alexander, Joanna Gray, Tilak Doshi, Mark Littlewood, David Shipley and Ben Pile. And we can’t continue to pay anyone without the generous support of our readers.

Remember, just £5 a month or £50 a year will enable you to access the full range of benefits, as well as support our work.

A big thank you to all those who have donated already in 2026, particularly those who’ve set up recurring donations – and thanks to those who regularly post below the line. It’s hugely appreciated.

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