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Subscribe              I N S I D E R           Jul 1, 2023             Ben Lowry Editor The weather was forecast to get bad a week ago after an almost perfect early June.Yet while there has been rain it has also been pleasant.   Today is the anniversary of the Somme. I first went to the site of that tragic battle on its centenary in 1916. I am reading a book about 1914 and it helps to reassure me that global problems today are minor compared to that year.    Here is a story about the many Somme commemoration parades this weekend   It was another anniversary yesterday, one that I remember well because the killings happened in Belfast city centre the day after I left school   There has been a lot of interest in this story about an academic who said she was "delighted" to have heard the explosion that killed Lord Mountbatten   The student fees political/legal drama in America has reminded me why I support the (much milder) system of student fees in the UK.  I was one of the first generation to take out a loan here   The police might be rethinking their policy of allowing uniformed officers to march in gay pride   Here is our editorial on why the desire for such participation is understandable but it should be denied even so.    On our opinion pages, the writer and former soldier Ken Wharton wrote about the rewriting of history   We also ran two essays on the Windsor Framework, Owen Polley on how NI has been left behind  and the DUP's Lord Dodds on a possible solution    Here is Kyle White on the sad death of the biker Damon Rees   -- Ben Lowry Editor              Ben Lowry: Remembering two killings in the centre of Belfast on the last day of June 1990   Read more +     Ben Lowry: The system of student fees in the UK is a fair one but Stormont politicians won't admit that   Read more +           Over 100 parades across NI to mark Battle of the Somme sacrifice in 1916                     Read more +     Subscribe today             Full access   Subscribe for unlimited access to all our articles, 70% fewer ads, daily puzzles and our desktop & mobile app. Your first month free . Cancel anytime.     Find out more     Gift access   Give someone a subscription for a year's unlimited access to all our articles, 70% fewer ads, daily puzzles and our desktop and mobile app. From just £94.90 for 12 months.    Find out more

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