| | | | | | Nov 18, 2023 | | | | | | It has been an ever changing mix of sunshine, grey and rain in Belfast in recent days. This weekend, the city Christmas season begins It is the season to be careful. This Belfast woman on a new year trip to London ordered a £1,890 cocktail that she thought was only £18.90. Punctuation is key ... Northern Ireland fans want more information on how the IFA backed Casement while the great Gerry Armstrong thinks the plan could work In politics Sir Jeffrey Donaldson implies that a deal with London might be near, yet Sammy Wilson is still saying EU law is the source of the problem, the primacy of which the government is not planning to remove A free speech lawyer describes as "disappointing" the fact that Michelle O'Neill was not ordered to pay full costs in her failed libel action With regard to the Middle East, the outstanding conservative commentator Douglas Murray is praised by Ruth Dudley Edwards while the artist Brian John Spencer says Suella Braverman was only saying what we can all see In my column I look at Belfast's street signage policy. It is, I believe, extremist and driven by the divisive goal of having Irish signs even where they are not wanted In other opinion the ex Alliance and Fine Gael politician John Cushnahan says Sinn Fein have no moral authority to condemn Israel for killing civilians Talking of such killing, it is the 40th anniversary of the attack on Darkley gospel hall --
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| | | | | | | | | | Ben Lowry: Belfast's extremist policy on Irish street signs is unfolding just as republicans wanted it to unfold | | | | | | | | | | | | Belfast now has an extremist and divisive street sign policy that is intended to make people of a unionist background uncomfortable. | | | | | | Read more + | |
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