We are into changeable July weather, but there are summer events galore, like the Rossnowlagh parade today. The Northern Ireland international and Liverpool player Conor Bradley was at the funeral of Diogo Jota this morning in Porto. It is particularly poignant that he was heading to the ferry back to Britain, where his family were to join him. The split travel arrangements that families often deploy in holidays without thinking that tragedy might intrude. Here is a story about the impact of the Irish Sea border on motability cars, which make up a ridiculous 42% of NI's car market. In my main column I write about how the A5 was the victim of such Stormont profligacy, but also the all-things-to-all-people policy making. My other column is about how Belfast finally seems bustling again, like before lockdown. Our political editor David Thompson here writes about fresh problems in the Ulster Unionists and our features editor Helen McGurk interviews an Orangewoman ahead of the Twelfth. Andrew Rosindell MP writes here that victims of IRA-Libyan terror have not had the support given to international victims of Libya. Finally, on July 4 yesterday, a campaigner for a museum to Harry Ferguson wrote about how his tractors are admired in America. Enjoy your weekend and your reading, Ben |