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Subscribe              I N S I D E R           Aug 26, 2023             Ben Lowry Editor With highs in the high teens Celsius in recent days the weather has become autumnal as it usually does in August The rain expected in many places today might fall after the marches, which mark the end of the marching season. Some thoughts about the film about Thomas Niedermayer from Clifford Smyth, and from Ruth Dudley Edwards and from the psychiatrist Philip McGarry Kyle White is back in the Isle of Man this week Northern Ireland was denied a 100th birthday. Yet with public cash splashed on other things, unionist leaders had to have a whip round for a centenary stone The NIO minister Steve Baker has tried to chide unionist 'hardliners'. But wasn't he until recently a hardliner?  Here is a more blunt response to his remarks from the loyalist Jamie Bryson. The coming 18 months will be fraught politically here in Northern Ireland and even more so, I write, in America And here is a remarkable story about the Ulsterman journalist who, in August 1914, filed the first honest report in British papers about the emerging carnage of the Great War  -- Ben Lowry Editor               The journalist from Ulster who issued first true report about the Great War in an August 1914 despatch from Amiens   Read more +     Jamie Bryson: DUP cannot backslide from their commitments and Chris Heaton-Harris and Steve Baker need to live with that   Read more +           Ben Lowry: We have big political problems in Northern Ireland but America's might be worse                     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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