/tags/politics/ Recent content in Politics on scarbrough.co.uk Hugo en-us Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 /post/going-full-indyweb/ Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 /post/going-full-indyweb/ Although Substack was never designed to be just a newsletter service for something else, it can be pretty useful for that. I’ve been increasingly less inclined to use it since it became more of a ‘social’ media platform, with certain authors being promoted by The Algorithm. What really did it for me, though, was an email sent to authors the other week, which stated: ‘Substack is introducing age verification steps for those in the UK.