[9] The magazine was founded in November 2019,[10] with Michael Mosbacher, former editor of Standpoint, and Christopher Montgomery, a strategist with the European Research Group of Eurosceptic Tory MPs,[11] as co-editors.

It was funded by Jeremy Hosking, a Conservative party donor[7] who had previously donated to Standpoint.

[12] Contributors include David Starkey, Joshua Rozenberg, Peter Hitchens and Toby Young.

[13] In his essay wishing success for the new publication, David Goodhart, founder of Prospect, remarked, "Does the world need another magazine of tastefully-written, somewhat contrarian, conservatively-inclined thinking?

"[9] 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".