A Crikey reader writes:

I rang this morning to cancel my Bulletin subscription plus the two I gave as Christmas presents last year. They told me I would receive a letter in the next three weeks outlining a number of generous options for transferring the unused portion of my subscription to other magazines. I was not offered a refund.

Fair enough, there must be some close substitute for The Bulletin in the ACP magazine stable. Let’s see.

Fernwood, Your Healthy Living Magazine. Hmm. Bounty’s Mother To Be Bag … Accor Traveller … Cleo … Cosmopolitan … Cosmopolitan Bride … Cosmopolitan Hair and Beauty … Cosmopolitan Pregnancy … Australasian Dirt Bike (now featuring a politics column from Laurie Oakes) … Dolly … Good Health & Medicine … Harper’s BAZAAR … Instant Beauty (Max Walsh does an advice page) … Little Kids (featuring Mungo’s crossword) … Mother & Baby (never mind its long-standing feud with Paul Keating) … New Woman … Pregnancy & Birth … Pregnancy Book … Shop Til You Drop (the place Henry Lawson started) … Shopping For Baby … Slimming & Health (Australia for the white woman) … Disney Girl (new editor John Lehmann) … Disney’s Princess (the new home of Patrick Cook) … Little Friends … FHM … Men’s Style Australia … Motor … Ralph … Street Machine … Wheels … Zoo Weekly (with its newly boosted investigative sections).

The Bulletin was clearly the one bad apple in this little barrel of monkeys. Hang out for a refund.