A personal message from News Letter editor Ben Lowry

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Nov 18, 2023

Ben Lowry

Editor

It has been an ever changing mix of sunshine, grey and rain in Belfast in recent days. This weekend, the city Christmas season begins

It is the season to be careful. This Belfast woman on a new year trip to London ordered a £1,890 cocktail that she thought was only £18.90. Punctuation is key ...

Northern Ireland fans want more information on how the IFA backed Casement while the great Gerry Armstrong thinks the plan could work

In politics Sir Jeffrey Donaldson implies that a deal with London might be near, yet Sammy Wilson is still saying EU law is the source of the problem, the primacy of which the government is not planning to remove

A free speech lawyer describes as "disappointing" the fact that Michelle O'Neill was not ordered to pay full costs in her failed libel action

With regard to the Middle East, the outstanding conservative commentator Douglas Murray is praised by Ruth Dudley Edwards while the artist Brian John Spencer says Suella Braverman was only saying what we can all see

In my column I look at Belfast's street signage policy. It is, I believe, extremist and driven by the divisive goal of having Irish signs even where they are not wanted

In other opinion the ex Alliance and Fine Gael politician John Cushnahan says Sinn Fein have no moral authority to condemn Israel for killing civilians

Talking of such killing, it is the 40th anniversary of the attack on Darkley gospel hall

Ben Lowry

Editor

DUP waiting for government action on trading arrangement talks – Sir Jeffrey Donaldson

The DUP is awaiting action from the Government over long-running talks to address unionist concerns on post-Brexit trading arrangements, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has indicated.