Don't feed the troll
Your columns are excellent and are pitched just right for an audience that is interested in this and has a bit of experience.
Also appreciated by my daughter who is doing economics A level and applying to university to do economics.
My guess is that the push is to be more IT focussed rather than expand the magazine aspects of the weekend topics.
This is a mistake as the Register was building a powerful brand 'more than just IT' and as we know from Top Gear, this sort of branding that reaches across many demographics is very valuable, very difficult to build and very easy to destroy.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
