Ben Lowry - weekend reading

The unusually warm evening temperatures

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News   Sport   What's On              I N S I D E R           The Indian cricket team is in Northern Ireland, and I hope to be meeting them later, If they arrived on Thursday, before their first match, they were here in 30 degrees Celsius - almost subcontinent heat.   That evening, after the US consul 250th celebration (Ulster had the second ever US consulate, established in the 1790s), I noticed it was an astonishing 28 Celsius at 8pm - later, overnight highs were at record levels, as I write here.   David Thompson in this analysis writes that setting aside alleged hidden state pressure on Jeffrey Donaldson to return Stormont, the DUP was up for it while knowing nothing of his abuse. He also writes about Jon Burrows' opposition to raising the age of criminal responsibility.   My essay is on being in court when Donaldson was interrogated, then convicted, and how Donaldson was part of the secularising of the DUP yet he used deeply religious language - language the prosecutor turned against him in the trial. Ruth Dudley Edwards writes about how long before Donaldson's trial she disliked him. Two important oped essays - a 2,400 article by Jeffrey Dudgeon on how criticism of immigration is shut down in NI, eg by the BBC. And Austen Morgan on how the UK supreme court has slapped down the Belfast courts on unbalanced legacy probes.   Enjoy your reading and this last weekend of the fabulous month of June, Ben             Michael Dunlop claimed pole for the Superbike class at the Tandragee 100 with a record qualifying lap on his BMW.   Read more +     No wonder you couldn't sleep: Some places in NI never got below 19C last night   Read more +             Felix Healy on World Cup appearance, ringside seat for Spain shock and current landscape of Irish League football   Read more +     Former Irish League boss: Conor McMenamin is the best I managed - I tried to sign him again at Portadown   Read more +           Jackie McGregor: The Belfast we carry: footsteps of our younger selves                     Read more +

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