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• Telegraph: Debt crisis: Live
• ConHome: Dave will give the ‘No Turning Back’ speech today
• Harry Cole: PMQs debrief
• Guido Fawkes: 1922 election results
• Telegraph: Is the North so dependent on public sector jobs?

The Loony Left

• Guardian: The recession is our fault
• Zoe Williams: Insults are a political issue
• Evening Standard: Jack Straw came to work with Rebekah Brooks
• Guardian: Greece… In or out?
• The Sun: 60% more days off in the public sector

On this day…

1943: RAF raid smashes German dams

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• An Oxford University student was locked up overnight after he asked a policeman: “Excuse me, do you realise your horse is gay?” He was arrested under the Public Order Act for making ‘offensive homophobic comments’. Sam Brown, who had been out celebrating the end of his exam, was asked to pay an £80 fine and locked up when he refused to pay. Prosecutors later dropped the case.
• A 16-year-old from Newcastle was arrested and fined £200 when a policeman overheard him saying “woof” to a labrador. The decision was later overturned by a jury.
• Another 16-year-old was charged under Section 5 for demonstrating outside the Church of Scientology’s UK HQ with a placard which read: ‘Scientology is a dangerous cult’

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• Telegraph: Cameron considers extra £25bn of welfare cuts
• BBC: Ratko Mladic trial begins
• Peter Botting: Democracy is a means, not an end
• Telegraph: A doctors’ strike would be a betrayal of their patients
• BBC: UK unemployment falls by 45,000
• James Lansdale: Battle for the 1922 to occur today

The Loony Left

• Kevin Maguire: Miliband is on the ball
• Daily Mail: Is the reshuffle a lurch to the left?
• Tanya Gold: Even the left don’t want minimum pricing
• Dan Hodges: Miliband’s treatment of Liam Byrne shows his nasty side
• The Sun: 60% more days off in the public sector

On this day…

2001: John Prescott punches protester

Daily Thatcherite

“Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing . . . There are no hills to go down unless you start from the top.”

Daily Reaganite

“Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.”

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• Telegraph: Rebekah Brooks to be charged
• Tim Stanley: How Mitt Romney got his groove back
• BBC: Fresh talks in Greece as fears of Euro exit grow
• The Commentator: We need two aircraft carriers
• BBC: Tory peers urge ministers to back Heathrow third runway
• Norman Tebbit: Greece and Europe fall victim to the socialist cargo cult

The Loony Left

• Polly Toynbee: Bring back Big Government
• George Monbiot: There is no moral decay
• Labour List: Ed’s converts
• Total Politics: What will happen to David Miliband and Chuka Umunna

On this day…

1957: Britain drops its first H-bomb

Daily Thatcherite

“I want to get totally rid of class distinction. As someone put it one of the papers this morning: Marks and Spencer have triumphed over Karl Marx and Engels.”

Daily Reaganite

“Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.”

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• BBC: Greece’s left says no government possible
• Dan Hannan: An EU referendum is coming. Which party will get the credit?
• Dan Hodges: Emboldened Ed Miliband’s confidence is turning to hubris
• Tim Stanley: Goodbye to Caroline Lucas, the tofu-munching Green
• Cristina Odone: Iain Duncan Smith must not give in to the ‘disability bullies’
• Boris Johnson: The statist, defeatest and biased BBC is on the wrong wavelength

The Loony Left

• Ed Balls: The EU is wonderful
• Jackie Ashley: Ed Miliband should reshuffle now
• Independent: We hate Israel

On this day…

1991: Nelson Mandela’s wife jailed for kidnap

Daily Thatcherite

“Gracious…I haven’t paid my bill. Good Conservatives always pay their bills. Not like the Socialists who run up other people’s bills.”

Daily Reaganite

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

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• Telegraph: The Left’s anti-austerity message is delusional
• BBC: Rebekah Brooks gives evidence
• Neil O’Brien: Liam Byrne is 100% correct on Labour’s pains
• Centre for Policy Studies: Jacob Rees-Mogg calls for international aid and EU cuts
• The Commentator: The dismal economics of resource nationalism
• Tim Stanley: The gay marriage endorsement was all about Hollywood’s money and Obama’s ego
• Donata Huggins: Bloodlust at the 1922 Committee

The Loony Left

• Owen Jones: Bring back unsustainable public spending
• Labourlist: Are the shires turning red?
• Telegraph: Ed Miliband plans a new Europe with Francois Hollande
• Occupy: We want the moon on a stick

On this day…

1963: Moscow jails British ‘spy’

Daily Thatcherite

“I’m making some changes, Geoffrey, and they will involve the Foreign Office.”

Daily Reaganite

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

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• Telegraph: Aircraft carrier omnishambles
• Guido: Gove lays into hypocritical lefties
• Daily Mail: Political animal lookalies
• The Commentator: Let the battle of ideas commence
• Ghaffar Hussain: Street grooming – Time to stop hiding behind political correctness
• Iain Martin:
• Benedict Brogan:

The Loony Left

• Tony Blair: Changing my mind on the West
• Labourlist: Who next after Red Ken?
• George Monbiot: No one should go to private school after I did
• Guardian: Why do the left hate the police?

On this day…

1940: Churchill becomes leader during WW2

Daily Thatcherite

“I want to get totally rid of class distinction. As someone put it one of the papers this morning: Marks and Spencer have triumphed over Karl Marx and Engels.”

Daily Reaganite

“Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.”

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• Telegraph: Queen’s Speech to provide more help for families
• Daily Mail: “Clegg is holding me back” says Cameron
• ConservativeHome: A spoonful of Conservative sugar helps the austerity go down
• Fraser Nelson: Lies, damned lies, debt and Nick Clegg
• BBC: Al-Qaeda underwear bomber ‘was double agent’
• Iain Martin: If the Dave and Nick show ever worked, it doesn’t now
• Benedict Brogan: That old rose garden routine is no good without growth

The Loony Left

• Seumas Milne: Revolt against austerity
• Laurie Penny: Conservatives are jealous
• Independent: Fast-tracking is wrong
• Nabila Ramdani: Hollande will bring glorious socialism and scare the rich off

On this day…

1999: Chinese anger at embassy bombing

Daily Thatcherite

“It is absolutely right that President Reagan considers SDI and thank goodness people considered nuclear research before the last war.”

Daily Reaganite

“There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.”

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• BBC: David Cameron and Nick Clegg to ‘relaunch coalition’
• Norman Tebbit: These mid-terms blues are worse than normal because Cameron is letting Labour off the hook
• The Commentator: French socialist victory is a disaster for Europe, but typical of our times
• Spectator: Cameron faces a political storm
• John Redwood: Euro crisis deepens
• Nadine Dorries: My plan for a Tory resurgence
• Dan Hannan: France and Greece are just the beginning – Europe is entering a downward spiral

Loony Left

• Polly Toynbee: Hollande and Europe are lurching back to the Left
• George Monbiot: I have a monstrous idea to destroy growth
• Labour List: Who will lose the next Mayoral Election for Labour?
• Owen Jones: Not a fan of Louise Mensch

On this day…

1945: Churchill announces end of war with Germany

Daily Thatcherite

“I am an undiluted admirer of American values and the American dream and I believe they will continue to inspire not just the people of the United States but millions across the face of the globe.”

Daily Reaganite

“When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.”

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• BBC: Boris gives Tories good news on a bad day
• Donal Blaney: The wavering loyalty of Conservative voters must not be tested any further
• ConHome: David Cameron should give the British people a vote on Europe
• Dominique Lazanski: Britain can’t afford to remove internet privacy
• Iain Martin: The sadness of Nick Clegg
• Will Heaven: Argentina’s crass Olympics advert is the lowest form of diplomacy
• Donata Huggins: The night of the long knives is coming for David Cameron
• Nick Wood: Dave needs a change of course

Loony Left

• Polly Toynbee: Give MPs more money
• Guardian: Why didn’t the progressive majority vote?
• Labour List: Ed Miliband thinks he has more work to do
• Political Scrapbook: Ed dodges the bullet

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On this day…

1979: Election victory for Margaret Thatcher

Daily Thatcherite

“A democratic Europe of nation states could be a force for liberty, enterprise and open trade. But, if creating a United States of Europe overrides these goals, the new Europe will be one of subsidy and protection”

Daily Reaganite

“There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.”

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