The Spectator the ladder to high office in the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom. Past editors include Boris Johnson (1999–2005) and other former cabinet members Iain Macleod, Ian Gilmour, and Nigel Lawson. In late 2008, "Spectator Australia" was launched; the current editor is Rowan Dean. This offers 12 pages of "Unique Australian Content" (including a separate editorial page) in addition to the full UK contents. Readership of "The Spectator Australia" was revealed through a court case as being 3,000. "The Spectator"s founding editor, the Dundonian reformer Robert Stephen Rintoul, launched the paper in July 1828 with a first issue for the
Leader Magazine Leader Magazine Leader Magazine was a weekly pictorial magazine published in the United Kingdom. The magazine was first owned by Pearson and then by Odhams. Later it became part of Hulton Press. The headquarters of the magazine was in London. The last issue of the weekly was published on 10 June 1950 and It was incorporated in "Picture Post" on 17 June 1950. Contributors included Stephen Potter (editor), Kay Dick (literary critic), Anthony Carson, Orson Welles, Edgar Lustgarten, Lesley Blanch, Leslie Illingworth, Eric Partridge, cartoonist Vicky, Stephen King-Hall. Theatre critic John Barber was also sub-editor at one time. Another drama