Spoiled Milk Politics
Reader Tom Royce writes that milk protectionism is stinking up the other side of the Atlantic as well, citing this article on the attack on a British cheese firm. To crush the upstart, lawmakers also smashed one of the great traditions of British law. "Never before, it is believed," he writes, "has a statutory instrument been issued in Britain directed at closing down a single named company (breaching the ancient principle of British law that 'the law must be blind', i.e. it must be general in application, not directed at any specific individual or body)."
UPDATE: Tim Worstall has more here.