''Standpoint'' was a British cultural and political magazine, originally published monthly, that debuted in June 2008.
It ceased to be published regularly in 2020, with a final issue coming out in mid-2021.
''Standpoint'' was based in London and was co-founded by
Daniel Johnson,
Miriam Gross,
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
Institute of Economic Affairs
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) is a British right-wing free market think tank, which is registered as a charity. Associated with the New Right, the IEA describes itself as an "educational research institute", and says that it seeks to ...
. It was initially funded by British Marine chairman Alan Bekhor and then by other rich donors, such as
Jeremy Hosking, who donated £850,000 in 2019.
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