Linkage

Henry Farrell has a post up at Crooked Timber about the EU and Turkey, where he asks whether there is any decent philosophical justification for limitations on concern for the badly off to those who share some particular community with us.

Jarndyce has a go at libertarians' visions of freedom as market relations at the Sharpener.

Via the Virtual Stoa, a very good cricket joke.

Jim Bliss points out that there may be more than one way of reading people saying 'I Love Big Brother'.

Also, I have invited a friend of mine from my undergraduate days to write something about the EU constitution, as he, having studied law, and in the course of that, EU law, is much better qualified to say something about it than I, so that should be appearing relatively soon.