Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion

• Iain Martin: Who cares about David Miliband?
• Dan Hannan: Britain’s unsackable quangocrats
• Darius Guppy: A defence of Boris

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• 1979: Jim Callaghan’s Labour government lost a Vote of No Confidence, precipitating the General Election that put Margaret Thatcher in power

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• “We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.”

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• “It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake”

Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion

• Dan Hodges: The left will eat itself
• Brendan O’Neill: What self-respecting member of the working-class would sign up to the patronising “People’s Assembly”?
• Christopher Booker: More green gimmicks and eco-taxes as Britain freezes
• Douglas Murray: Still little real action on immigration

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• 1625: King Charles the Martyr becomes king of England, Scotland and Ireland

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• “Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.”

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• “It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.”

Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion

• Anatole Kaletsky: Britain has abandoned austerity
• Telegraph: Immigration crackdown unravels
• New Yorker: A socialist budget?
• Examiner: Starbucks joins the intolerant cultural Left
• Independent: UK universities tumble in world rankings

On this day…

• 1902: Cecil Rhodes, the famous British colonist, died

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• “We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.”

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• “I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.”

Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion

• Michael Gove: No surrender to Marxist teachers
• John Redwood: How the Greens annoy many people
• Douglas Carswell: Cyprus should quit the Euro
• Gerald Warner: Don’t ignore Russian interests in Cyprus

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• 1807: The slave trade was abolished in the British Empire

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• “Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.”

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• “There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.”

Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion

• Telegraph: Anger over Holiday Tax increase
• Mehdi Hasan: The left is infected with anti-Semitism
• Max Hastings: Ed Balls would be worse
• Fraser Nelson: Why the Spectator says NO to the Royal Charter

On this day…

• 1954: The London Bullion Market re-opened for the first time since the Second World War

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• “There are no easy answers’ but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.”

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• “If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.”

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Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion

• Telegraph: Budget 2013 summarised
• Guido Fawkes: Borrowing up
• Quentin Letts: ‘Ban press parasites’ says Labour MP
• Ed West: The losers who tweet abuse at politicians

On this day…

• 1413: Henry V, victor of Agincourt, acceded to the throne

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• “No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!”

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• “I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.”

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Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion

• MercoPress: Stay out of Falklands dispute, Cameron tells Pope
• Epoch Times: 92% of Hong Kongers want return of British rule
• Vincent Cooper: Immigration is overrated
• Peter Oborne: Why I’m resigning from the NUJ

On this day…

• 1616: Sir Walter Raleigh was freed from the Tower of London after 13 years imprisonment

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• “Some people wonder all their lives if they’ve made a difference. The Marines don’t have that problem.”

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• “Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.”

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Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion

• Benedict Brogan: No more stupid ideas from the government
• Daily Mail: A grim day for freedom
• Archbishop Cranmer: Announcing OfBlog – the mother of all quangos
• Fraser Nelson: The BBC doesn’t get religion

On this day…

• 1982: Argentine forces illegally landed on South Georgia at the start of the Falklands War

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• “Man is not free unless government is limited”

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• “To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.”

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Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion

• The Sun: D-Day for press freedom
• Mats Persson: Could Cyprus leave the Euro today?
• Daily Mail: Man denied employment just for being Christian
• Frederick Forsyth: Modernisers have destroyed the UK
• Russia Today: Anyone know how to get cheap ground-to-air missiles?

On this day…

• 1869: Conservative Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was born

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• “Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.”

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• “If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.”

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Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion

• Jesse Norman: The EU’s war on the nation-state must stop
• Thomas Pascoe: We shouldn’t block new grammar schools
• Stirring Trouble Internationally: Why is ‘lurching to the right’ seen as a bad thing?
• Lord Tebbit: Cameron should learn from recent troubles

On this day…

• 1493: Columbus returned to Spain after his first trip to the New World

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• “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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• “To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.”

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