Quotulatiousness

The Dominion Society of Canada had planned to hold their conference at a venue in Hamilton, but Hamilton police took it upon themselves to harass the owners of rental facilities to ensure that the conference could not take place.

The Rest Is History Published 31 Aug 2026 Who was Gaius Marius, one of the two men who would shape the fate of Rome in the first century BC?

Sandy Petersen responds to the “Under Communism, everyone has a job” claim that has been circulating recently thanks to the rising popularity of useful idiots: “Under Communism, everyone has a job”.

Forgotten Weapons Published 13 Apr 2026 The design for the St Chamond 75mm field gun was initially created by Mexican small arms designer Manual Mondragon, who worked extensively in artillery as well as small arms.

In 1957, there was still a railway through the village of Stanford-on-Avon on the cross-country line, now sadly vanished post-Beeching, which linked the West Coast Main Line at Rugby with the Midland Railway’s own main line north at Market Harborough.

David Friedman responds to a question from one of his readers: Lynn’s national IQ estimates (source) It is never too much to remember how much ethnic cleansing was made in the past based on “scientific evidence” that some races were “not as intelligent as…

World War Two Published 30 Aug 2026 The Messerschmitt Bf 109 was designed to solve one of the fundamental problems of modern warfare: how do you gain control of the air long enough for everything else to operate unhindered?

On the social media site formerly known as Twitter, John Wright provides a useful timeline of climate catastrophism in response to someone posting “projected” sea rise in Florida due to global warming: For those of you keeping track: 1. 1958 New York Time…

Drachinifel Published 22 Apr 2026 Today we look at some of the worst thought out naval strategies and plans of all time, as selected by me. 00:00 – Intro 00:34 – Selection Criteria 02:17 – The 1914 Dardanelles Bombardment 11:38 – Britain’s post-WW2 Carrier

There are lots of examples of “nations” that don’t have any real reason to exist as coherent political entities.

In The Critic, Tom Jones reviews a new work on Niccolo Machiavelli by Stephen Bowd and Alexander Lee: Machiavellian is rather a dirty idea in politics, conjuring tired images of scheming Wormtongues, smoke and mirrors, nights of long knives, Peter Mandels…

I haven’t used any of the latest tranche of LLM agents, although I’m assured by those who do use them that they’re significant improvements over the previous iterations, so I don’t really have an opinion about the state of the “AI Revolution”, but Freddie…

I’m not a trained historian, so I don’t know if it’s a guild requirement for modern historians to ostentatiously avoid using traditional “BC” and “AD” to denote historical dates or if it’s just another sop to the easily offended like so many other things:…

seangabb Published 29 Mar 2026 Greece: A Brief History, c.700 BC – 500 AD How did the Greeks recover from what looked like total defeat?

Cant, or humbug, is far worse than hypocrisy: for if by hypocrisy, we mean a failure to live up to our professed moral ideals, most of us are hypocrites, and thank goodness for it.

One thing Trump does better than any other politician is finding ways to send his opponents crazy.

Frederick Alexander wonders “what the hell happened to Amnesty International”?

Forgotten Weapons Published 11 Apr 2026 In 1958, Val Forgett of Navy Arms contracted with Beretta engineer Aldo Uberti to produce 1,000 reproductions of the Colt 1851 Navy revolver.

… Alexander to Actium is a rich feast, enlivened throughout with Green’s flare for delicious details and legends that are possibly fanciful but too remarkable to leave out.

Of all the potential military conflicts facing the west, a US invasion of Canada has to be among the least likely — not just because it’s been attempted more than once in the past.

Although I consider myself a fan of George Orwell’s work, it had never occurred to me that there might be a real Manor Farm that inspired its fictional counterpart in Orwell’s Animal Farm: One of life’s small pleasures is the uncanny sensation of exploring

Spaceman Spiff does that thing with data where you point out the most unpalatable results from a given set of statistics and place it front and centre: Any mention of Cofnas by academics or the media comes with an obligatory dismissal of his work as “cont…

Tasting History with Max Miller Published 3 Mar 2026 Fritters as they are depicted in ancient Egyptian tombs City/Region: Egypt Time Period: 15th Century B.C.E.

The first thing to note is that when we talk of “Roman roads”, we almost always mean the viae publicae, roads built by public officials (Initially censors who let out the contracts to build such public works, although later roadways get named after the co…

Sara the Editor (that is, not Sarah Hoyt the SF author and Instapundit co-blogger) posted this on Substack Notes a couple of weeks ago before the Lindsay Clancy trial began, but it discusses some of the things that have become common topics of interest si…

On Substack Notes, Earl describes the horrific plight of refugees in the UK, specifically those housed under brutal conditions at a camp in Essex, the Wethersfield Airfield Asylum Accommodation: Inside the asylum centre “holiday camp”: A gym, football pit…

One of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s signature differences from the Trudeau era is his passion for negotiating and signing memoranda of understanding with foreign governments, corporations, organizations, and NGOs.

The History Chap Published 22 Apr 2026 The most celebrated British hero of the First Anglo-Afghan War was brave, resourceful, and utterly magnificent under fire.

I got reminded today that one of the things I truly hate in desktop environments is: animations.

Octavian, if you’re new around here, is far better known as Augustus, the founder of the Principate.

David Dennison clearly views-with-alarmhorror the phenomenon of women publicly demonstrating their support and claiming understanding for a woman who murdered her three children: Pink-clad supporters of Lindsay Clancy Photo from Aged Well A disclaimer fir…

The Korean War by Indy Neidell Published 25 Aug 2026 Heavy rains prevent action in the field in Korea this week, so the big story worldwide is talks in Moscow between Josef Stalin and Chinese Foreign Minister Zhou Enlai.

Cláudia Ascensão Nunes discusses yet another example of regulatory capture, as new European Union regulations will choke off business opportunities for small companies to the benefit of big companies and multinationals who can absorb the costs of the new…

Real Time History Published 20 Mar 2026 As the war in the Pacific develops, the United States takes the fight to Japan itself – by crippling its economy, destroying its industry, and crushing civilian morale.

A critical assumption of climate alarmism is that the ecosystem is fragile and we naughty, mighty humans can easily overwhelm it.

Edward Luttwak offers some suggestions to help explain why the vast and lavishly funded US Military-Industrial Complex seems incapable of manufacturing enough weapons to allow the US military to fight more than a brief demonstration war before running sho…

World War Two Published 23 Aug, 2026 The tanks get the glory.

In the late Roman Republic, the rapid increase among the urban poor in Rome itself eventually led to the Senate introducing food relief for the very poorest Roman citizens, the Annona civilis.

Forgotten Weapons Published 8 Apr 2026 Guatemala was one of the handful of countries to purchase original AR-10 rifles, made at Artillerie Inrichtingen (AI) in the Netherlands.

… this morning I was thinking about monasteries.

Lorenzo Warby on the two cases that are currently front-and-centre with the terminally online left, one a recently deceased academic grifter and another a confessed multiple murderer (of her own children): We are currently observing attempts to turn the l…

I nearly skipped this post by Celina, as it started off appearing to be pretty much of interest only to Australians, but that was just the opening sections: The Bolsheviks were the first governing power of the modern era to write the suppression of “natio…

As I mentioned the other day, I don’t believe Prime Minister Mark Carney ever intended to reach a trade agreement with the United States, because it was far better for his domestic political situation to have the US — and especially Donald Trump — as a fo…

seangabb Published 26 Mar 2026 Greece: A Brief History, c.700 BC – 500 AD What happens when resistance fails?

Joca @jocadbz Translated from Portuguese How many geniuses have you heard about in recent years?

At SteynOnline, Tal Bachman continues his study on “The Art of Translation”, this time touching on the unlikely and unlooked-for rise of Caesar’s grand-nephew and eventual successor Octavian — better known to history as Caesar Augustus, the founder of the…

I have no idea how authentic these are, but even if they were dreamed up in the 1940s by a chain-smoking ad guy trying to sell pre-printed matchbooks to Chinese restaurants, they have a distinct ring of truth to them: May you live in interesting times May…

TimeGhost Cartographic and World War Two Published 22 Aug 2026 In December 1941, Britain is fighting a global war on multiple fronts when Japan enters the conflict in Southeast Asia.

My sense has always been that the Carney government didn’t really want to get a deal done with Trump, because it was far more politically useful to keep the eLbOzOs all angry and posturing than to negotiate in good faith.

BritishWarLegends and BritishWarArmory Published 31 Mar 2026 The Canadian Military Pattern truck was built by two rival factories in Ontario for a nation of eleven million people.