[1]https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/november-2019/introducing-the...
If they're aiming for a London Review of Books kind of space that makes sense - LRB is decidedly left wing if pretty heterodox and broad-minded - but for the political commentary space I would have thought the Spectator already covered a contrarian conservative perspective fairly well. But then I guess I'm not in their target market.
[Edit: I see they have got Toby Young on their editorial board. Definitely Conservative (as well as conservative), then.]
> Ossified thought and a lack of intellectual rigour are depressing features of all sides of our political and cultural debate.
It’s pretty clear they’re trying to dress up their agenda-ed editorials as “common sense” compromise but if middle-of-the-road were truly the publication’s aim I can’t imagine Haskings would have had any interest in funding it.