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Daniel Toft

Daniel Toft

Policy Officer at the Ulster Farmers' Union and former President of Queen's University Belfast Literary and Scientific Society; policy professional focused on agriculture, rural development, and infrastructure.

Jul 26, 2026

19:31
Its highest ideals, shall we say, would be my main thing from looking back at the history.
19:40
fact that for so long the traditions of the society were respected by president after president after president and were upheld and looking back that appears for me to be of sort of incredible importance those ideas that Ryan set out of impartiality and you know over the years right up to the society's collapse in the late 60s you know the commitment to impartiality and regardless of any one person's particular background, nobody tried to change the society into something that it isn't up until that point.
20:16
But also, you know, what I would have looked back on is there was key points in the society's history that when you look at the minutes, and it's not just minutes in the library, there's also pamphlets, there's tickets to conversazione from that point in time, there are, you know, term cards or whatever they called them back then.
20:36
Seeing how each president and council put their own spin on things and altered things slightly to suit them, and brought something fresh.
20:47
And the names of people that move up from the council, you can see, I think, over the long period of time that it wasn't the same people over and over again.
20:57
Each year, the council would look so incredibly transformed.
21:00
There'd be new ideas and new ways of working.

6 MINS LATER

27:17
But yeah.

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