It's a ridiculous time to start a print magazine, let alone one that aims to be conservative and intelligent. Andrew Neil is giving it a shot. ShawnMcCreesh reports
Andrew Neil. Photo: Tom Nicholson/Shutterstock One stormy afternoon in December, inside an apartment within Trump World Tower nearly 80 stories in the sky, the British were plotting. A long dinner table was set and Schubert’s Piano Sonata in A major, D. 959, played softly. Fog clung to the floor-to-ceiling windows so that the United Nations Secretariat building and the East River, just beyond First Avenue, were impossible to make out.
But can the Yankee ear be attuned to the Cantabridgian? Neil wants his new edition to have “a sense of humor, which all of these magazines from The Weekly Standard to The National Review lack. We would not make it ideologically pure. It has its own strong views but there would be a cacophony of voices. For example, in the U.K. The Spectator’s editorial line was in favor of Brexit but the top four columnists were against it. And I thought we’d try elements of Vanity Fair.” One rule for the U.S.
The Spectator shrugs. “It’s seen many changes in political thinking, and at times what it stood for was not the consensus of the day,” says Neil. “If you’re a Reagan Republican, or even a Reagan Democrat, these are pretty dark days in America. Everywhere you look, we’re in an era of strongman economics. If you believe in the market, if you believe in limited government, if you believe in relatively low taxation, these are not your times.
And Johnson’s battle with the BBC has escalated significantly. Last week, reporters from across the British press corps walked out of a briefing at 10 Downing Street in protest of Johnson’s treatment of the network. “Many new governments in the past have set out to ‘get’ the BBC — Thatcher, Major, even Blair,” said Neil by email. “They all hit the same two problems.
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