One long guide a month
Once a month, the guide we spent the month on, in full, in your inbox. Not a digest, not a teaser, and nothing on the months in between except the corrections you deserve to know about.
What actually arrives
One email, on the first working day of the month, containing four things and nothing else.
The month's guide, in full
The complete piece in the email itself, not a paragraph and a link. Usually the longest thing we published that month: the research read, the numbers checked, the caveats left in.
What we changed, and why
Every correction and revision we made to an older guide in the previous four weeks, with the reason. If we got something wrong, you hear it from us rather than finding it later.
One piece of evidence worth knowing
A study, a dataset or a primary document we read while researching, explained in a few sentences with a link to the source so you can check it yourself.
What is being written next
The guide currently in research, so you can tell us what it is missing before it publishes rather than after.
Why monthly, and not weekly
A weekly newsletter has to be filled every week, whether or not anything is worth saying. That deadline is what turns a good publication into a stream of thin posts, recycled listicles and links somebody else wrote, because the alternative is admitting you had nothing that week.
Our guides take longer than a week to research properly. A single piece can mean reading a dozen papers, checking what the numbers actually say, working out where the evidence stops, and having somebody qualified read it before it goes out. Sending monthly means the email arrives when that work is finished, rather than when the calendar says so.
It also means the email is worth opening. One long, sourced guide a month asks considerably less of your attention than four short ones, and gives you more.
What never arrives
No supplement pitches. No multi-part sequences engineered to sell you a course. No motivational slogans. No emails on the months we have nothing finished, because a quiet inbox is better than a padded one. Sponsored work never appears inside the newsletter: when we take money, it is labelled and it lives on its own page, as set out in the advertising policy.
Everything we send follows the same rules as the site: somebody's name on it, sources you can open, testing before a recommendation, and a correction in public when we get it wrong. Those rules are written down in our editorial process and how we test.
Leaving
Every email carries a working unsubscribe link at the top and the bottom. One click, no confirmation page asking whether you are sure, no offer to reduce the frequency instead. Unsubscribing deletes your address from the list rather than marking it inactive, so there is nothing left to reactivate later. The full detail is in the privacy notice.