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
Stephen Glover (columnist) Stephen Glover (columnist) Stephen Glover (born 13 January 1952) is a British journalist and columnist for the "Daily Mail". He was educated at Shrewsbury School and Mansfield College, Oxford. He co-founded "The Independent" in 1986 with Andreas Whittam Smith and Matthew Symonds. All three had previously been journalists on "The Daily Telegraph" and had left the paper towards the end of Lord Hartwell's ownership. Between 1986 and 1990 Glover was Foreign Editor of "The Independent". In 1990 he became the founding editor of "The Independent on Sunday". In 1992 Glover helped Richard Ingrams launch "The Oldie" magazine with fellow journalists