Hitching Hitchens to the down under paywall ...

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Oh noes, the paywall of doom has locked Christopher Hitchens behind its vast emphatic paywall.

Hang on, hang on, what's this at Slate, under the header The New Libya's First Mistake, published on Friday October 21st 2011, and beginning:

Surrendering to a feeling of deep impotence and slight absurdity, I borrowed an iPad on Thursday afternoon and used it to send my first-ever message by this means.

To impose a charge for borrowed meat is careless.

To charge for borrowed meat that's been hanging in the cold storage for ten days or more is beyond careless ...

Pay for quality journalism so that quality journalism will litter the antipodes like rose petals?

Sure, and if you believe that, have we got a digital subscription to sell you ...