• Matthew Elliott: Five language rules for the right
• James Delingpole: Why I call them bird-slicing eco-crucifixes
• Matthew Sinclair: The green jobs myth
• Mark Wallace: Stephen Twigg’s muddled education policy
• Dan Hannan: Where’s the national interest in Syria?
• Fraser Nelson: Sack bad teachers

On this day…

• 1815: Allied forces commanded by the Duke of Wellington defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo.

Daily Thatcherite

• “I sometimes think the Labour Party is like a pub where the mild is running out. If someone does not do something soon, all that is left will be bitter and all that is bitter will be left.”

Daily Reaganite

• “The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.”

• Charles Moore: We are too weak to face up to Islamic extremism
• Fraser Nelson: Hassan Rouhani: Made in Glasgow
• Dan Hannan: Every continent is growing except Europe and Antarctica
• Gerald Warner: Iran’s sham election
• Andrew Pierce: How Maggie predicted Big Brother state
• Melanie Phillips: Celebrity-obsessed honours system insults genuine heroes

On this day…

• 1239: King Edward I was born in the Palace of Westminster

Daily Thatcherite

• “Everything politicians promise at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxes or by borrowing.”

Daily Reaganite

• “A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah.”

• Toby Young: Michael Gove: the best leader Labour never had
• Guido Fawkes: Labour orders MPs to stay away from Westminster during EU vote
• Dan Hannan: Ed Miliband will do anything for the working man, except ask his opinion
• Brendan O’Neill: An MP threatens to sensor a newspaper. Where’s the outrage?
• Tim Wigmore: Americans are longing for Dubya. Watch out for George P. Bush
• Matthew Hunter: The state of history teaching in our state schools

On this day…

• 1982: Argentine forces in Port Stanley surrendered unconditionally, thus ending the Falklands War

Daily Thatcherite

• “Communism never sleeps, never changes its objectives. Nor must we.”

Daily Reaganite

• “The fact is, our deficits come from the uncontrolled growth of the budget for domestic spending.”

• Russell Taylor: In praise of conservatism
• Dan Hannan: Will your MP vote for an In/Out Referendum?
• Daily Mail: The exam system must put education first
• Peter Glover: Big Green, not Big Oil, is the real enemy
• Matt Ridley: Culling badgers is good, even for the badgers (£)
• Surrey Comet: Lib Dem head of Kingston Council resigns after child porn arrest

On this day…

• 1373: The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance came into force, the oldest alliance in the world still in force

Daily Thatcherite

• “Little can be achieved without sound money. It is the basis of sound government.”

Daily Reaganite

• “Balancing the budget is a little like protecting your virtue: You just have to learn to say ‘no.’”

• Mark Wallace: The NUT loves to say “no” a little too much
• James Delingpole: Yeo: Another scalp for Guido
• Dan Hannan: We don’t need more regulation for politicians
• Douglas Carswell: The Euro-establishment still holds sway in No 10
• Quentin Letts: The BBC’s wasteful move to Salford
• Tim Stanley: Ron and Rand Paul are winning the arguments in the GOP

On this day…

• 1987: Ronald Reagan publicly challenged Gorbachev to “tear down this wall”

Daily Thatcherite

• “We believe in a free Europe but not a standardised Europe”

Daily Reaganite

• “A truly successful army is one that, because of its strength and ability and dedication, will not be called upon to fight, for no one will dare to provoke it.”

Ron and Rand Paul are winning the arguments in the GOP

• Andrew Pierce: Labour let the unions loose in Parliament
• Douglas Carswell: Westminster: the last closed shop in Britain
• James Landale: Is Cameron starting to take the UKIP challenge seriously?
• Jonah Norberg: Why Sweden has riots
• Damian Thompson: You have to wonder: will Obama see out his full term?
• Daniel Johnson: For Thatcher it was always a question of honour

On this day…

• 1987: Margaret Thatcher’s Conservatives won a third term in office.

Daily Thatcherite

• “There are forces more powerful and pervasive than the apparatus of war. You may chain a man, but you cannot chain his mind.”

Daily Reaganite

• “We in government should learn to look at our country through the eyes of the entrepreneur, seeing possibilities where others see only problems.”

• Iain Martin: Is Nick Clegg the Tories’ biggest headache?
• James Delingpole: We mustn’t laugh at Tim Yeo
• Tim Stanley: Is Alex Jones working for the New World Order?
• Isabel Hardman: European Commission does Eurosceptics’ job for them
• Simon Heffer: Politicians have betrayed the Queen’s Coronation dream
• Cristina Odone: Battle for badgers: a new class war?

On this day…

• 1719: British government troops defeated Jacobite rebels at the Battle of Glen Shiel

Daily Thatcherite

• “Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.”

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.”

• Hugo Rifkind: I’ve checked my privilege and you’re still wrong
• Commentator: Far-left United Against Fascism’s sinister mosque vigil
• David Blair: Why not compensate the victims of the Mau Mau?
• Nile Gardiner: The stunning decline of Obama’s presidency
• Douglas Murray: The police need to act now against Anjem Choudary
• Fraser Nelson: Scottish independence is falling apart

On this day…

• 1628: Charles I granted Royal Assent to the Petition of Right

Daily Thatcherite

• “What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: ‘I stand for consensus?”

Daily Reaganite

• “A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.”

• Taxpayers’ Alliance: The government screw up the recall bill
• Damian Thompson: MSNBC: far more biased than Fox News
• Viscount Ridley: Who will lobby for the poor old taxpayer? (£)
• Tim Stanley: Obama’s terrible choice for national security adviser
• Harry Cole: UKIP officially excluded from ‘Better Together’ Campaign
• Stephen Glover: Little by little our freedoms are being eroded

On this day…

• 1762: British forces temporarily occupied Havana, Cuba

Daily Thatcherite

• “I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.”

Daily Reaganite

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

• Jacob Rees-Mogg: How parliament can kick out crooked MPs and peers
• James Forsyth: Could UKIP win a Portsmouth South by-election?
• Better Off Out: EU energy: another victory for protectionism
• Dan Hannan: Spaniards cling to currency that immiserates them
• Christopher Booker: The greens who want to hide the truth about soaring bills
• Telegraph: Socialist SNP to give every Scottish child a state guardian

On this day…

• 1723: Scottish philosopher and economist Adam Smith was born.

Daily Thatcherite

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

Daily Reaganite

• “As government expands, liberty contracts.”