Well done Mr Cavendish

In a complete break from anything more important, Mark Cavendish took the green sprinters Jersey in the Tour de France today and racked up yet another stage win. This in a coincidence seeminglyttypical of the tour on the 44th anniversary of Tom Simpsons death. Now he just needs to keep it till the podium in Paris and hope the horrible crashes that dogged the first week are over. Back to the usual nonsense shortly. +40

What’s right with Libertarians

Yoinked directly from The Devils Kitchen from a rather excellent article by Bella Gerens, I think this really sums up a huge amount of what I find appealing and a good thing about the Libertarians: Libertarians don’t fight with left-wingers, they fight with each other. It’s the only ‘mob’ you’ll ever see where the crowd hears a rousing speech and says to one another, ‘You know, I’m not sure I agree with him. He misses Friedman’s point about the fact that…’ and then argues all the way to the pub, where they’d all much rather be anyway. 0-1