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It all began in Iceland with the Banki Hanki Panki. Then Ireland's Banky Fiddly Diddly crashed before Spain's El Banco Collapso...

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: North London is the heart of the British Cypriot community and most people have strong links with their homeland. You can imagine the widespread alarm across the manor at the news that the government in Nicosia had decided to confiscate people's life savings as part of a bailout programme aimed at preventing the collapse of the euro. The Bank of Cyprus has thousands of customers in this country. And although depositors in Britain have been assured their savings are safe, would you take the chance?

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: A grim day for all who value freedom

Far be it from the Mail to intrude on the politicians' orgy of self-congratulation over their plans to rein in the freedom of the Press, but may we introduce some inconvenient facts?

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Does Cameron really relish another five-year prime ministerial term in 2015?

David Cameron went to bed, leaving minister of state Oliver Letwin to hammer out the Press regulation agreement into the wee small hours. The PM insists on getting his head down early.

So Jacob, did you really go canvassing in a Bentley with your nanny? No! It was mummy's Mercedes: JANE FRYER meets the poshest man in politics

Jacob Rees-Mogg has recently been described as a 'mini Boris' and the 'undisputed star of the backbenches', constantly perking up dreary Commons sessions with his brilliant speeches and wonderfully dry humour

He has recently been described as the 'mini Boris'. And despite his penchant for nannies, Bentleys, ridiculous private loos and preposterous poshness, I would love Jacob Rees-Mogg to be my MP.

MPs' eyes sparkled. Their longed-for day of vengeance had finally arrived

David Cameron, Captain Compromise, initially looked embarrassed but later relished Labour's plaudits

QUENTIN LETTS: Sticky self-congratulation - 'Real power! Fantastic job! Great tenacity!' - was more evident than self-regulation. The House was hot to boss the Press. Another backbencher complained about the paper which first exposed MPs' money fiddles. Eyes sparkled. They were getting their own back. This was not about detailed legislation. It was about our expenses-caning clerisy, some of them knighted simply as compensation for losing ministerial office, controlling its frisky tormentors. At last the mosquitoes were to be swatted.

Scrabble is so annoying now, innit

Competitive: Anthony Ogogo said that the Duchess of Cambridge told him that games of Scrabble with her husband tend to end with one or other of them getting in a mood and slamming the board shut

Apparently, WILLIAM (12) and KATE (8) rarely finish a game of Scrabble without one or other of them getting in a mood and slamming the board shut. This is, in fact, the correct way to play Scrabble, writes CRAIG BROWN.

Is George 'too toxic' to survive the storm?

Osborne's fans say that being in Coalition with the Lib Dems means he can't be a proper Tory

PETER MCKAY: Osborne’s name has become ‘toxic’ to voters, says a new poll. They more or less back the Government’s debt-reduction programme — but not when Osborne’s name is attached to it.

Why this Budget really is the Chancellor's last chance... by the donor who gave the Tories £10m

Warning: Conservative peer Michael Ashcroft warns George Osborne that he must offer the voters more than just endless austerity

In a stark analysis, laced with menace, Conservative peer MICHAEL ASHCROFT warns George Osborne that he MUST offer the voters more than just endless austerity.

Hooray! I'm not the only one who'd love to throttle irritating train announcers who think they're stand-up comedians

Oh, how my heart sinks, first thing in the morning or at the end of a long day, when I board my commuter train, the public address system springs to life

TOM UTLEY: Oh, how my heart sinks, first thing in the morning or at the end of a long day, when I board my commuter train, the public address system springs to life with a driver who thinks he is an entertainer.

Fanatics who'll do anything to save the euro

A gathering storm: Banker Sebastien Galy said the move could be the 'trigger' for a new eurozone crisis

Conservative MEP DANIEL HANNAN says that our masters in Brussels are prepared to immiserate the continent rather than allow an orderly unbundling of the euro.

Why Obama's seen through the two Eds

ANDREW PIERCE: Red Ed Miliband has made little secret of his admiration for Barack Obama, and there is a deep frustration in Labour HQ that Obama is an admirer of David Cameron.

Today's economic war demands a radical approach - and the Coalition must rise to the challenge, writes SIR TERRY LEAHY

Looking at the economy ahead of tomorrow's Budget, it is clear that the Coalition Government's plan is not working. Cutting the debt should be part of a bigger plan to create a competitive, enterprising economy capable of winning in cut-throat markets. To do this, Britain must become a low-tax, small-state economy. We are not going as far or as fast as we need on the tax or public spending fronts. Much as I applaud the Government's plan to cut corporation tax, this must be only the first step on a long journey.

This brilliant surgeon can't find work in the NHS. Is it because he blew the whistle on child deaths at a leading hospital?

Edwin Jesudason fears he has been blacklisted as a troublemaking whistleblower

STEVE BIRD: Mr Jesudason has not spoken publicly before, but this week he told the story of what happened at Alder Hey when he called for an investigation of surgery practices after two babies died and others were ‘seriously injured’ after treatment.

SATURDAY INVESTIGATION: The lynch mob, the man of God and the truth about an atrocity seared on Britain's psyche...

Corporal Wood, gun in hand, is about to be dragged from his car and mercilessly killed by the mob

RICHARD PENDLEBURY: No one who saw the harrowing photographs or film footage of the deaths of Corporals Derek Wood and David Howes in Belfast — 25 years ago next week — can ever erase the memory.

He spoke of hung Parliament. He must have had a monumental row with Cleggy...

David Cameron was almost Byronic, impulsive, slapping the lectern

QUENTIN LETTS: Cameron was not prepared to let Levesonians continue to wreck several Government Bills. ‘The House of Commons will be sovereign,’ he said. ‘I have chosen action over inaction.’

We fuss over mothers... then tell them to dump their children in baby farms

Care and attention: Liberal Democrat Lynne Featherstone, says that having a baby is a ¿bit of a setback¿

PETER HITCHENS argues that without a mother's attention children will not 'flourish as fully developed humans', in relation to Coalition plans for 40 per cent of two-year-olds to be in day care.

Supernanny? Send her to the naughty step

Jo behaves as if it is a virtue that she doesn't have any qualifications

MARTIN SAMUEL: Jo Frost has no qualifications beyond her own unshakeable ego and no quantifiable scientific evidence that her methods are worthwhile, beyond supposition.

If this Budget flops, a Tory bloodbath is just weeks away

George Osborne, Chancellor of he Exchequer, during the launch of the Economic Survey of the United Kingdom, by Angel Gurria, Secr

SIMON HEFFER: Conservative MPs fear that Chancellor George Osborne will offer nothing that would help to improve their party’s prospects — or give the economy a proper boost.

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It all began in Iceland with the Banki Hanki Panki. Then Ireland's Banky Fiddly Diddly crashed before Spain's El Banco Collapso...

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: A grim day for all who value freedom

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Does Cameron really relish another five-year prime ministerial term in 2015?

So Jacob, did you really go canvassing in a Bentley with your nanny? No! It was mummy's Mercedes: JANE FRYER meets the poshest man in politics

MPs' eyes sparkled. Their longed-for day of vengeance had finally arrived

Scrabble is so annoying now, innit

Is George 'too toxic' to survive the storm?

Why this Budget really is the Chancellor's last chance... by the donor who gave the Tories £10m

Hooray! I'm not the only one who'd love to throttle irritating train announcers who think they're stand-up comedians

Fanatics who'll do anything to save the euro

Why Obama's seen through the two Eds

Today's economic war demands a radical approach - and the Coalition must rise to the challenge, writes SIR TERRY LEAHY

This brilliant surgeon can't find work in the NHS. Is it because he blew the whistle on child deaths at a leading hospital?

SATURDAY INVESTIGATION: The lynch mob, the man of God and the truth about an atrocity seared on Britain's psyche...

He spoke of hung Parliament. He must have had a monumental row with Cleggy...

We fuss over mothers... then tell them to dump their children in baby farms

Supernanny? Send her to the naughty step