A letter from News Letter editor Ben Lowry

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Subscribe              I N S I D E R           Nov 25, 2023             Ben Lowry Editor I write this on a bright, but not entirely sunny, November morning.   Good news as temperatures drop: Oil prices are down, leading to cheaper home heating oil but also car fuel offers    We are on the brink of advent, during which this James Nesbitt/Timothy Spall film about a Christmas heist seems set to be a hit    For all the seasonal cheer, our divisions over Middle East are as great as ever, as this shocking incident in Derry City and Strabane District Council in which Irish republicans hung up a banner comparing the Jewish state to the Nazi mass murderers of Jews      And there is sharp division over Stormont. Here are two opposing voices: Bob McCartney KC who wrote for us saying that a return is part of the jigsaw towards an all Ireland  and the Ulster Unionist Philip Smith arguing almost the opposite, that devolution bolsters the Union and Northern Ireland's success    Here is my analysis of a now undeniable division in the DUP, which revolves around the primacy of EU law in NI    This is a tribute to the lawyer and left-leaning activist Brian Garrett by Professor Liam Kennedy, who describes him as part of a lost generation that might had reshaped Northern Ireland, if not for gunmen. I engaged with Brian a lot in his energetic work on libel reform, a role which Mike Nesbitt remembers here    We will be carrying more tributes to Brian, whom we all remember very fondly, from Erskine Holmes and others   -- Ben Lowry Editor             Liam Kennedy: Brian Garrett was of a lost generation that might have reshaped Northern Ireland if not for men with guns   Read more +     James Nesbitt: 'Filming the Heist Before Christmas in Northern Ireland was a joy'   Read more +           Ben Lowry: The divide within the DUP is now clear, and it is over the primacy of EU law in Northern Ireland                     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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