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Ben Lowry: Unionists are not looking for lundies yet even unionists are claiming that we are!

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News   Sport   What's On              I N S I D E R           Jan 28, 2023             Ben Lowry Editor Already it is the end of January and we have a full extra hour of evening daylight.   But heating is a bigger concern to most folk. I wrote last week that I had delayed buying oil as prices edged up. Maybe that was a bad move because they have risen further, so here I delve more deeply into whether it is a good time to buy https://www.newsletter.co.uk/business/analysis-northern-ireland-home-heating-oil-prices-see-yet-another-rise-but-is-this-a-good-time-to-buy-compared-to-recent-prices-4005145   Despite cost of living crisis and the debt problems many people have in January, restaurants in Belfast are packed at weekends https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/opinion/letters/ben-lowry-as-the-january-days-get-longer-at-night-restaurants-in-belfast-are-packed-4005007   I am saddened at the loss of Flybe. I first flew them when they were Jersey European. There was a time, 10+ years ago, when they often had the best fares flying (I think) to Gatwick https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/transport/scheduled-flights-cancelled-after-embattled-airline-flybe-ceases-trading-4005011 There is a rates hike ahead but the economist Esmond Birnie thinks things could have been bworse https://www.newsletter.co.uk/business/consumer/cost-of-living/rates-hike-ahead-but-northern-ireland-economist-esmond-birnie-thinks-things-could-have-been-a-lot-worse-4004954 David McNarry, one of the Belfast Agreement negotiators, is warning against unionists ending up appearing to endorse the NI Protocol at the time of the 1998 anniversary https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/opinion/david-mcnarry-beware-nio-plans-to-use-25th-anniversary-of-belfast-agreement-to-project-northern-ireland-protocol-as-interlocked-into-1998-deal-4005005 I always follow Rory McIlroy's career with pride, He was at the school I went to (although barely born by the time I left) https://www.newsletter.co.uk/sport/golf/rory-mcilroy-shrugs-off-patrick-reed-reaction-after-incident-at-dubai-desert-classic-4000736   In my weekly column I respond to a thoughtful column by the moderate unionist Philip Smith (link to his article within this) https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/opinion/columnists/ben-lowry-unionists-are-not-looking-for-lundies-yet-even-unionists-are-claiming-that-we-are-4005006 -- Ben Lowry Editor              Belfast airport boss says Flybe collapse is 'disappointing and unexpected'   Read more +     Ben Lowry: Unionists are not looking for lundies yet even unionists are claiming that we are!   Read more +           Ben Lowry: As the January days get longer, at night restaurants in Belfast are packed                     Read more +

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