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Daily View 2×2: 16 February 2010

By Sara Bedford | Tue 16th February 2010 - 9:35 am

Welcome to today’s numerically challenged Daily View – a bit like a Conservative policy paper.

On this day 51 years ago, Fidel Castro was sworn in as Cuban Prime Minister. Twenty five years ago Clive Ponting resigned from his post at the MoD over the Belgrano affair, despite having been acquitted of breaching the Official Secrets Act a week previously. Just five years ago, the Kyoto Protocol came into force.

Today is of course Shrove Tuesday, so get ready for pancakes tonight. But don’t rely on your opponents giving up campaigning for Lent. I’m off to spend the night setting the budget for the good residents of Three Rivers.

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Posted in Daily View | Also tagged coalition, duncan stott, fidel castro, kyoto protocol, lynne featherstone, peter black, shrove tuesday, simon hughes, stephen tall and vince cable | Leave a comment

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