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There will be more to come on this story, I'm sure.
I'm going to leave it there.
I have a Daily Mail front page to debunk!🫣🙄
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![Wikipedia page for the Critic magazine:
The Critic is a British conservative[6] monthly political and cultural magazine.[7] The magazine was founded in November 2019,[8] with Michael Mosbacher, former editor of Standpoint, and Christopher Montgomery, a strategist with the European Research Group of Eurosceptic Tory MPs,[9] as co-editors. It was funded by its owner Jeremy Hosking,[5][10] a City of London financier and donor to Reform UK,[11] the Conservative party,[5] and Laurence Fox's Reclaim Party,[12] who had previously donated to Standpoint.[13]
Contributors include David Starkey, Peter Hitchens, Douglas Murray, Toby Young, Patrick Kidd, Yuan Yi Zhu and Robert Hutton.[7]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uxg2d3knt2sk5f52binuyuow/bafkreifruncw6s3byeustaeh22s5mkvtguvekq5tvznls5kl3uilhuxd4m)
![History of the magazine from Wikipedia:
Founding co-editor Michael Mosbacher said that Jeremy Hosking had been unwilling to continue funding Standpoint after its board resisted Hosking's demand for more "culture wars content". Mosbacher said of Hosking, "He's a strong Brexiteer, Eurosceptic and right-of-centre, but we are not trying to fit into that narrowly".[5]
Mosbacher characterised The Critic as covering the cultural issues that underpin Brexit.[5] The Times Literary Supplement described it as having a resemblance to The Spectator, with a mission "to criticize the critics".[14] An editorial from the first issue in 2019 attacked "the closed mind", whose "high priests" are found in the universities, "the civil service, the BBC, the courts, the churches, the arts and the quangos".[7] The Critic has been described as combining "more radical forms of populism and more communitarian forms of conservatism", and "[flirting] with the outer-most limits of respectable nationalism".[15] It](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uxg2d3knt2sk5f52binuyuow/bafkreicdepkcegustaaocj2yu4zepj7vc44b6onqcongs7jnjdsmf5z5fm)
