| It was a wet weekend for European Heritage Open Days. This year I got to two of the 260 venues open, an Anglican church in Comber that was a monastery in the 1100s until destroyed by Henry VIII in 1543. The open days also facilitated my first visit upstairs in the McClay library at Queen's University, which I was curious to see (remembering well the old tower block library at QUB). This letter from Rev J Willards, a Church of England minister in Surrey who is originally from Northern Ireland, lists all the national prayer days that were held in Britain at times of crisis in the dark days of World War II, which believers such as the minister achieved results.
In another letter, this reader in Dublin admires Ruth Dudley Edwards but was not impressed by her defence of Peter Mandelson.
In other commentary this week, the economist Esmond Birnie says that Lord Murphy was wrong to emphasise the apparent benefits of dual market access for Northern Ireland. And the excellent historian Henry Patterson says that GCSE students in NI are not getting an adequate account of post partition Stormont. Talking of education, Stormont's minister for it Paul Givan set out on our pages why he was withdrawing trans guidance to schools. The brilliant Ulsterman musician Phil Coulter supports Ireland's threat to boycott Eurovision if Israel it is in but I am pleased that German has said it will do the reverse, pull out if Israel is not in. My other column, in the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk, is on a hatred of conservative voices. Enjoy the rest of your Sunday, Ben | 
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