If Alexander McNutt had realized his plans in 1760s name of province of Nova Scotia might now be New Ulster. He planned to transport over 7,000 persons from the north of Ireland to settle there. Story told in a chapters of my book "Canada's Ulster - Scots". #irishheritagemonth

This is one of the most jaw-dropping pieces I've ever read and I'm not entirely sure what to do with it. nytimes.com/2025/06/13/tec…

Wise advice

"I do not see where the improvement is going to come from, because it seems to me that the problem lies in certain very basic characteristics of humanity which aren't going to change." Jonathan Sumption on future of democracy. Sobering. tinyurl.com/2utkwtfp

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Belfast Cathedral today

“As standing water soon stinks, and a running stream throws out all impurities, so a standing House of Commons will ever be a standing pool of corruption...” From Thomas Jefferson's library - 'An Historical Essay on the English Constitution' by Obadiah Hulme (London, 1771)

"The political cartoon for the year 1775": Cartoon shows King George III and Lord Mansfield, seated on an open chaise drawn by two horses labeled "Obstinacy" and "Pride," about to lead Britain into an abyss - trampling Constitution and Magna Carta. © Library of Congress

Charles Lee, writing to James Monroe, denounced the 'Macocracy' that was springing up in America as “a banditti of low Scotch-Irish whose names usually begin with Mac — and who are either the sons of imported servants or themselves imported servants”.

Happy Birthday Spurgeon!

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Francis Hutcheson of Saintfield - "Unalienable Rights are essential Limitations in all Governments". (1725) His father John was the local Presb minister and in 1689, under the regime of James II, had recommended his congregation to join the revolution. libertarianism.org/publications/e…

“This was an act of political desperation by the most incompetent and confused parliament in British history. It was one last mad effort by the dying political class of a declining country.”