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Tory MPs, as co-editors. It was funded by

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, a Conservative party donor who had previously donated to ''Standpoint.'' Contributors include Patrick Kidd, Yuan Yi Zhu,

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and long-time lobby journalist Robert Hutton.

Reception

Mosbacher described ''The Critic'' as competing with ''Standpoint''. Mosbacher said that Hosking had been unwilling to fund ''Standpoint'' without more of "the

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s content" that interested him, but ''Standpoint'' board resisted this direction. ''

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'' described ''The Critic'' as having a resemblance to ''

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'', with a mission "to criticize the critics". In his essay wishing success for the new publication,

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, founder of ''

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'', remarked, "Does the world need another magazine of tastefully-written, somewhat contrarian, conservatively-inclined thinking? Probably not."

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of the ''

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'' responded, "I would say probably yes, so why do we never get one?" Josh White, writing in ''Battleground'', said, "Any Conservative who is aggrieved by the lack of social cohesion in the wake of austerity may pick up the mag and feel his (usually ''his'') prejudices reaffirmed".

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