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Lewis Brown, Nick Jacques and Dane Barnett make their picks in the 2012 GOP field, and encourage you to do the same – ‘Who Would You Vote For?’ http://tiny.cc/sir1p

Nick Clegg's right. It's time to start means-testing pensioners (John Kampfner, The Guardian) http://tiny.cc/rzmve
IDS, Gove and Pickles top Cabinet league table (Tim Montgomerie, Conservative Home) http://tiny.cc/2176f
David Cameron starts all over again on public services reform (Benedict Brogan, The Telegraph) http://tiny.cc/j2024
Labour fails to capitalise on coalition setback (Financial Times) http://tiny.cc/x8x0b
Is there a good kind of lobbying? (Caroline Crampton, Total Politics) http://tiny.cc/4fmfx

Don't treat us as "congenital idiots", Mr Cameron. Mail, Telegraph and Sun warn PM over Europe. (Tim Montgomerie, Conservative Home) http://tiny.cc/by2gj
If Not Now, When? (John Redwood MP, The Commentator) http://tiny.cc/5y0it
The numbers game suggests Cameron will have to back down over a EU referendum (Mail Online) http://tiny.cc/h5mud
Radical eurozone shakeup could see countries stripped of voting rights (The Guardian) http://tiny.cc/3o7v1
We’re not Germanophobes, but neither are we all Europhiles (Anthony Pickles, The Commentator) http://tiny.cc/r6ty2
No Pain, No Gain, in Ireland’s 2012 Budget (Channel 4 News) http://tiny.cc/emp8h

Gold rush in Afghanistan: the rush for new contracts (Evening Standard) http://tiny.cc/9klor
GOP Is Now a Three-Man Race: Romney vs. Gingrich vs. Gingrich (Arianna Huffington, The Huffington Post) http://tiny.cc/xx0e6
Heard on the Hill: Ron Paul Broadsides Toy Dogs (Roll Call) http://tiny.cc/hlydj
Dozens of bodies dumped in Syria, activists say (The Independent) http://tiny.cc/d2dab
Bachmann: Newt Gingrich is a frugal Socialist (Right Scoop) http://tiny.cc/3k9jl
Obama to channel Roosevelt's 'New Nationalism' (CNN) http://tiny.cc/0yxvr