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
David Rintoul 1986, he recorded unabridged readings of 13 of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels for Chivers Audio Books. He also later recorded Nobody Lives Forever and Licence to Kill, written by John Gardner. Whilst reading the prose with his usual speaking voice, Rintoul speaks Bond's dialogue with a mild Scottish accent. He also narrated Robert Harris's "Dictator", the final volume of his Cicero trilogy. Rintoul took over this role from Bill Wallis, who had read the previous two books, "Imperium" and "Lustrum", but died two years before "Dictator"'s publication. He has narrated two young people's books, "The Boggart" (2009) and "The