being written by misogynist/angry loon types (especially regarding Harriet Harman's comments and Rod bloody Liddle). Only reason I joined up to the Guardian online was to try and outweigh the nutters a little bit. Basically they'll have to offer a lot more than what they already do, which isn't much different from the rest at the moment - N.I. will have to come up with a 'diffentiation engine' or some Magic Murdoch Beans. Charlie knows about this stuff, his " TV Go Home " website was quite brilliant before anyone had ever heard of him, but there was no way to make a bean from it. It nevertheless seems to have got Charlie a tasty job in the media, such that he is now the thinking person's Noel Edmunds. The idea of micropayments per page is not new, sadly the banks kiboshed lots of good and perfectly viable ideas for micropayment schemes that involved various types of stored value cards over the years because they could not get fat on any of them. However, it's probably worth revisiting in the form of PAYG where instead of getting your bandwidth wasted by irritating and tedious adverts, you can opt to have 5p taken from your deposited account to read a feature. It might work even better if you could also direct that 2p went to charlie and 2p the Graun and 1p to [a cause/charity of your own choosing]. I'd willingly pay 5p to read Polly's tripe, just so I could