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, Jonathan Foreman and Michael Mosbacher; Johnson was its first editor, but announced that he was standing down in 2018. In 2019, editor Edward Lucas said that the magazine was to be "a lively champion of unfashionable causes such as the virtues of western civilisation and transatlanticism". Later that year, he also said: "We fight culture wars vigorously, mix polemic with mockery, and are all in favour of triggering people." The magazine was run by the Social Affairs Unit, a spinoff charity of a neoliberal economic thinktank, the

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. It was initially funded by British Marine chairman Alan Bekhor and then by other rich donors, such as

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, who donated £850,000 in 2019.

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