Picture: Press GazetteThe Times has turned off comments under its leader article declaring it will not endorse a party in the 2024 general election after readers chastised the paper for fence-sitting. It has also sat poorly with subscribers to The Times, who made their feelings known underneath the leader article. What a waste of a once great reputation.”Only Times subscribers are able to comment under articles on its website and they must use their real names. At some point on Thursday morning The Times turned off comments for the article, in the process making those that had already been published invisible. Turning off the comments provoked further irritation among Times subscribers, who began posting under another leader article published on Thursday instead.