A David Brooks column worth reading

His effort from yesterday's New York Times: "The Reality Moment". Brooks wrote about the UK's likely next Prime Minister Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Conservative Party Shadow Chancellor George Osborne, whose party is rising in the polls in Britain not by promising tax cuts or more transfer payments but by being honest about its country's fiscal condition and the austerity measures needed to remedy it. There are other lessons American conservatives can learn from Osborne and his party. Worth reading.

Incidentally, Bloomberg TV featured a profile of Osborne recently, who has had something of a meteoric political career so far (he's still in his thirties).

British PM Brown Getting Excoriated by Daniel Hannan

For those who haven't seen this yet, below is a brief video of Daniel Hannan, a British Member of the European Parliament, tearing into British Prime Minister Gordon Brown earlier this week at European Parliament in Strasbourg.