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
Diogenes (British magazine) supervisory editor of Watts Phillips, who functioned as sub-editor and provided cartoons under the name "The Ragged Philosopher". Literary contributors included Robert Brough, William Brough, Angus Reach, Augustus Mayhew, and George Augustus Henry Sala. Besides Watts Phillips, in the first year the three main illustrators were William McConnell (1831–1867), Charles H. Bennett, and William Newman (1817–1870). Newman, a Roman Catholic, had resigned from "Punch" in April 1850 on account of its anti-Catholic editorial position. Starting in 1854, Alfred Thompson contributed numerous illustrations. Diogenes (British magazine) Diogenes, a Light upon many Subjects was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire