Very best of luck to Standpoint—the new monthly magazine edited by Daniel Johnson that aims to "defend and celebrate western civilisation"—the first issue of which is published today. A couple of my colleagues attended the opening party at the Wallace collection last night, and this morning have been lauding the quality and the quantity of the champagne on offer.
But it looks like Standpoint's online editors may have been similarly enchanted by the bubbly. The magazine's homepage, which features its slogan "The magazine that makes you… think again" not once, not twice but three times, also contains a box headed "Latest Blog Entries," which promises such delights as "A new Blog peice," "My another blog" and "My Blog entry." Click through to read the Blog peices and you are presented with two posts that take their responsibilities to defend western civilisation so seriously that they are entirely in Latin. My favourite, however, is right at the top. I hope you'll indulge me if I quote in full:
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