Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion

• Alan Johnson: We need to talk about Islamism
• Brendan O’Neill: The savagery of identity politics
• Merryn Somerset Webb: The ‘Help to Buy’ bubble will cause a property disaster
• Alexander Fiske-Harrison: Spain must leave the Euro
• John Redwood: I do not agree with Nick
• BBC News: Head of IMF in court over alleged corruption

On this day…

• 1900: The UK annexed the Orange Free State

Daily Thatcherite

• “Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.”

Daily Reaganite

• “Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver 5 minutes longer.”

Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion

• Telegraph: The woman who bravely talked down the Woolwich terrorists
• Douglas Murray: Some of us warned this would happen
• Brian Binley MP: EU costs far outweigh benefits
• Lord Flight: Why Germany should leave the Euro
• Peter Foster: Obama is rapidly losing his halo
• Spectator: Clement Atlee would have backed Free Schools

On this day…

• 1533: Henry VIII’s first marriage was annulled

Daily Thatcherite

• “Economics are the method; the object is to change the heart and soul.”

Daily Reaganite

• “Status quo, you know, is Latin for ‘the mess we’re in’.”

Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion

• Jacob Rees-Mogg: Ignore those who sneer. Tory activists are magnificent!
• Daily Mail: A plea from the heart of loyal Conservatives
• Miles Windsor: Conservatism in crisis
• Douglas Murray: Edmund Burke: the neglected founder of conservatism
• Scotsman: Salmond isolated after major trade union opposes independence
• Selena Gray: Time to tackle Britain’s welfare ghettos

On this day…

• 1923: Conservative Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law resigned for health reasons after just seven months in the job

Daily Thatcherite

• “All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail.”

Daily Reaganite

• “We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.”

Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion

• Iain Martin: Has the Right split irrevocably?
• Dan Hannan: Pro-EU camp dressing up Eurocrats as businessmen
• Brendan O’Neill: NAHT head-teachers have become blubbering wrecks
• Melanie Phillips: The more abuse Gove gets, the more you know he’s right
• Douglas Carswell: The overwhelming case for benefit reform
• American Spectator: Obama and the IRS: the smoking gun?

On this day…

• 1982: In the Falklands War, the Battle of San Carlos began

Daily Thatcherite

• “Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.”

Daily Reaganite

• “Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is [tax day].”

Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion

• Douglas Carswell: The people who are really out-of-touch
• Dan Hannan: Time for open-source politics
• Jacob Rees-Mogg: If the press isn’t free, neither are you
• BBC News: We don’t want sub-prime in Britain
• Spectator: Save Eurovision from the BBC
• Cranmer: The real swivel-eyed loons

On this day…

• 1217: In the Second Battle of Lincoln, English forces decisively defeated the invading Prince Louis of France

Daily Thatcherite

• “I wasn’t lucky, I deserved it”

Daily Reaganite

• “There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don’t care who gets the credit.”

Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion

• Telegraph: 29-year-old James Wharton MP will table EU Referendum Bill
• Guido Fawkes: Top Leftie credentials of new Newsnight editor
• Dan Hannan: This is the closest we have ever been to leaving the EU
• London Loves Business: “Sack Dan Hannan” says *Tory* MEP
• Telegraph: Extreme left try to silence anti-EU talk
• Spectator: Where UKIP won… and why

On this day…

• 1915: The last ever Liberal Party majority government fell

Daily Thatcherite

• “I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.”

Daily Reaganite

• “I’m afraid I can’t use a mule. I have several hundred up on Capitol Hill.”

Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion

• Telegraph: 114 Conservative MPs vote for EU referendum
• BBC News: Labour’s biggest (non-union) donor wants EU referendum
• Guido Fawkes: A joint Tory-UKIP candidate? No one batted an eyelid over Boles’ suggestion of joint Tory-Lib Dem candidates
• Brian Binley MP: The truth about Labour’s immigration shame
• Quentin Letts: New Labour’s busybody wants a charter for killing grannies
• Telegraph: Labour councillor vetoes flying of St George’s cross because it might offend 16 Muslims – who say they’re not offended

On this day…

• 1991: Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to address a joint session of the US Congress

Daily Thatcherite

• “If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better become a socialist and have done with it.”

Daily Reaganite

• “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”

Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion

• Telegraph: British taxpayers must pay £770m MORE to EU
• James Forsyth: Will the EU Bill calm Tory tensions?
• Guido Fawkes: No clause in EU Bill to force government to act after referendum
• Daily Mail: What has happened to the once respectable RSPCA?
• Standpoint: The futility of academic boycotts
• Max Chambers: Police Commissioners making genuine progress

On this day…

• 1536: Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s second wife, stood trial for treason, adultery and incest

Daily Thatcherite

• “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”

Daily Reaganite

• “Thomas Jefferson once said, ‘We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.’ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.”

Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion

• Nile Gardiner: Obama’s top 10 insults against Britain
• Damian Thompson: What it takes to get the BBC to like a Tory Prime Minister
• Guardian: UKIP on 18% in latest poll. That’s a lot of fruitcakes Prime Minister!
• Breitbart: An absolutely disgusting story that has barely even been mentioned in Britain’s liberal media
• Baroness Warsi: It is not racist to limit immigration or expect immigrants to speak English
• Telegraph: Animal Rights nutters force wildlife charity patron to quit

On this day…

• 1727: English painter Thomas Gainsborough was born

Daily Thatcherite

• “We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty.”

Daily Reaganite

• “A people free to choose will always choose peace.”

Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion

• Dan Hannan: Gove and Hammond would vote to leave the EU
• James Delingpole: First they came for the jelly wrestlers…
• John Redwood: Time to bring the modernising agenda up to date?
• BBC News: Mandelson attacks “One Nation Labour”
• Daniel Johnson: Hawking has fallen into a moral black hole over Israel boycott (£)
• Quentin Letts: How Clegg holds Britain to ransom

On this day…

• 1912: The Royal Flying Corps, the precursor to the RAF, was founded