One for the sovereignty fetishists 
For followers of the peculiarly British debate over the euro, Chris Brooke has a fascinating discussion of how Margaret Thatcher’s guidestar, Friedrich Hayek, was seemingly an advocate of euro-like currency union.
“Why is it that, when push comes to shove, so many Conservative politicians show their colours as Hobbesians and Schumpeterians and sovereignty fetishists and Little Englanders, and so on, rather than engaging more constructively with the classical liberal tradition by which they claim, from time to time, to be inspired?”
Harry Brighouse explains why Milwaukee-style education voucher programmes won’t translate to the UK: “Frankly, British private schools are not good enough. They want the cheapest and easiest children to educate which is why they preserve so fiercely ‘control over the admissions process’.”
From Talking Points Memo: “Number of days between Novak column outing Valerie Plame and announcement of investigation: 74 days. Number of days between O’Neill 60 Minutes interview and announcement of investigation: 1 day.”