09.10.2014

Unreliable

The WW webteam are doing the best they can here, but Robbie Rix is a hard man to please

Pride of place amongst donations to the paper this week is the £50 cheque from comrade HG, who writes: “Brilliant paper last week. Congrats to Michael Roberts, Paul Demarty and Charles Gradnitzer especially.” Comrade, I’ll pass on your message as soon as I see them.

HG’s £50 was amongst the £305 that came in over the last seven days. There was a second cheque (£20 from PG), plus two gifts from regular PayPal donors NW (£20) and MD (£10), and, of course, the usual batch of standing orders - 10 of them, varying from RK’s £10 to the £30 donated by comrades CG and SD.

This week’s column does not contain the usual information about the number of Weekly Worker online readers. That is because I am informed that the stats we have been supplying appear to be not completely reliable. It seems that, whereas previously the figures quoted tended to be overstated (upwards of 30,000 readers a week a couple of years ago!), today, following our change of server, the opposite is the case and we are not getting the true picture as a result of adblockers, which prevent the correct information from being received.

Well, it’s all beyond me, but no doubt someone - maybe from among those reading these words! - will come forward with a bit of advice in the near future.

Anyway, I am sure of one figure: we have a total of £394 towards our £1,500 target for October. And don’t forget - we accept donations just as readily as we accept advice!