Today’s Top Stories and Opinion

• BBC: Mervyn King sees ‘steady, slow recovery in 2012′
• Guido: London GLA projections
• Andrew Gilligan: Why Labour supporters should shun Ken
• Eric Pickles: 5 reasons to vote Conservative today
• Alex Deane: Are you a Londoner? Make sure you vote for Boris!
• Express: Illegal immigrants in voting scam
• Frank Manning: Why do Conservative women like Louise Mensch receive such nasty abuse?

Loony Left

• Ken Livingstone: Please ignore my glaring faults
• Independent: Vote for Kenneth
• Guardian: Incentives don’t exist in schools
• Guardian: Nationalise energy companies

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1990: Latvia to declare independence

Daily Thatcherite

“Forget that I’m a woman. Forget the accusations that I am a Right Winger demanding privilege – I had precious little privilege in my early years.”

Daily Reaganite

“I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.”

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Today’s Top Stories and Opinion

• Telegraph: MI6 agent death rules out unlawful killing
• Daily Mail: Why Lee Jasper is so wrong on race
• Dan Hodges: No one should vote for crony Ken
• Telegraph: Rupert Murdoch hits back
• Dan Hannan: Boris embodies everything that’s great about elected mayors
• Quentin Letts: Tom Watson is far too pleased with himself
• Iain Martin: Turn Oliver Letwin off and on again

Loony Left

• Owen Jones: Chavs at the riots
• Left Foot Forward: Ken is even more desperate than we thought
• Guardian: Communism is coming back to Europe
• PoliticsHome: Tony Blair is coming back to the UK

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1997: Labour wins landslide

Daily Thatcherite

“Forget that I’m a woman. Forget the accusations that I am a Right Winger demanding privilege – I had precious little privilege in my early years.”

Daily Reaganite

“You can tell alot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.”

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Today’s Top Stories and Opinion

• BBC: MPs to publish report into phone hacking abuse
• Daily Mail: Time to back Boris and true Tory values
• The Commentator: Syria: a modest proposal
• Telegraph: We should sack bad teachers, not pay them less
• Dan Hannan: The Conservatives could win back Eurosceptics tomorrow
• Tim Stanley: Obama’s Bin Laden ad has turned a military triumph into a political disaster
• Fraser Nelson: Tricolour Britain

Loony Left

• Polly Toynbee: I’ve changed from Lib Dem to Labour again
• George Monbiot: International law is imperialism
• Mehdi Hasan: Israel doesn’t want war with Iran
• Noam Chomsky: What next for Occupy?

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1945: Germany announces Hitler is dead

Daily Thatcherite

“I am not quite certain what my Right Honourable Friend said, but we both hold precisely the same view.”

Daily Reaganite

“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.”

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Today’s Top Stories and Opinion

• BBC: Roy Hodgson approached to be England manager
• The Commentator: The battle for the Conservative Party must be played out publicly
• Boris Backer: 50 reasons not to vote for Ken:
• Evening Standard: Boris takes four-point lead over Ken
• Spectator: Cameron’s Euro line
• Daily Mail: Wind farms make climate change WORSE

Loony Left

• What happened to global warming?:
• Political Scrapbook: Does Galloway know what religion he is?
• Owen Jones: More politics of envy
• Politics.co.uk: It’s all the voters fault

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1973: Nixon takes rap for Watergate scandal

Daily Thatcherite

“I have very strong views about Europe. We’re quite the best country. We rescued them. We’re not going to get entangled with them. We’ve got to keep our own independence. Is that clear?”

Daily Reaganite

“How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”

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Today’s Top Stories and Opinion

• BBC: Jeremy Hunt to hand over emails and texts with aide over Sky bid
• The Commentator: Ayn Rand vs. the Dalai Lama
• Tim Stanley: You can be a conservative and a Christian
• James Delingpole: ABC: Even worse than the BBC
• Ed Staite: Politicians and the media are heading towards mutually assured destruction
• Spectator: Osborne’s turning point
• Dan Hannan: Ireland are being done over by the EU – again

Loony Left

• Polly Toynbee: I don’t like Murdoch or free markets
• BBC: Protesters can’t sleep in Parliament Square
• Owen Jones: The Coalition has failed
• Guido: More Labour not backing Ken

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1984: Libyan embassy siege ends

Daily Thatcherite

“We have made too much of one or two people, and we think that they can win or lose elections for us. Don’t be depressed if one particular person transgresses. It doesn’t lose an election unless the Party loses faith in itself.”

Daily Reaganite

“You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we’re in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we’ve got to do something about the unemployed.”

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Today’s Top Stories and Opinion

• Fraser Nelson: The case for Boris
• Guido Fawkes: Tom Watson holds his nose for Ken
• John Redwood: It’s still the economy, stupid!
• Tim Stanley: Marco Rubio is as Sound as a pound
• Andrew Gilligan: Ken promises full tax details sometime in the future…
• Nile Gardiner: Hillary Clinton has become the Secretary of Hubris

Loony Left

• Guardian: Can we keep spending other people’s money?
• Political Scrapbook: James Murdoch is Sound
• Dan Knowles: Wet Wet Wet
• Joan Smith: Men are evil

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1962: First US rocket lands on the Moon

Daily Thatcherite

“We intend freedom and justice to conquer. Yes, we do have a creed and we wish others to share it. But it is not part of our policy to impose our beliefs by force or threat of force.”

Daily Reaganite

“Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.”

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Today’s Top Stories and Opinion

• BBC: UK economy in double-dip recession
• Dan Hannan: From Holland to Hollande, the answer is ‘No’ to Brussels
• Peter Botting: Let’s not waste time on House of Lords reform
• Tim Stanley: I can’t bear the thought of a presidential race without Newt Gingrich
• Andrew Gilligan: Ken Livingstone is ‘tricky’, says Labour peer
• Taxpayers’ Alliance: Town Hall Fat Cat Rich List 2012

Loony Left

• Seumas Milne: Why is Boris still beating Ken?
• Guardian: Give people more than £21,000 in housing benefits!
• Donald Trump: Stop these crazy wind farms!
• Simon Kelner: James Murdoch scared me

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1980: Tehran hostage rescue mission fails

Daily Thatcherite

“I have very strong views about Europe. We’re quite the best country. We rescued them. We’re not going to get entangled with them. We’ve got to keep our own independence. Is that clear?”

Daily Reaganite

“Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.”

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Today’s Top Stories and Opinion

• Guido Fawkes: Croney Crow sues over “Not Ken Again” poster
• BBC: James Murdoch begins giving evidence at Leveson Inquiry
• Guardian: Syria crisis and Bahrain unrest continues
• Telegraph: Dutch PM resigns as Eurozone crisis claims another victim
• Andrew Gilligan: Dead and incarcerated people are voting in Tower Hamlets
• Daily Mail: George Osborne savaged on new £10bn IMF loan

Loony Left

• Polly Toynbee: Abolish the Lords
• Daily Mail: Climate change alarmist James Lovelock admits he was wrong
• ITV: RMT Tube workers go on strike yet again
• George Monbiot: Be ashamed of the empire

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1993: IRA bomb devastates City of London

Daily Thatcherite

“Is there conscience in the Kremlin? Do they ever ask themselves what is the purpose of life? What is it all for?… No. Their creed is barren of conscience, immune to the promptings of good and evil.”

Daily Reaganite

“Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.”

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