And at last, hope: While Canada considers eliminating self-defense for law-abiding citizens and the United States struggles with torture and basic civil liberties, the United Kingdom begins to right the ship.
After more than eight years in the political wilderness, the Conservative Party shows some spine under the new leadership of David Cameron.
Via Volokh, here's a Windows Media of Cameron's first session of Prime Minister's Questions as opposition leader. It's good stuff, especially if you are unfamiliar with the House of Commons and like your legislatures with some spunk.
Cameron seems to be a worthy counterweight to Tony Blair's lusty statist approach to problems. Camilla Cavendish (yes, she's British! How did you guess?) lays out the scenario here.
Money quote:

What many of us want is not more Blair, but less government. For all their differences, Mr Brown and Mr Blair share an authoritarian, interventionist instinct. And it is that — not the minutiae of who believes what on public service reform, a subject that so fascinates the media — which most worries many of us.


And this, too:

Mr Cameron instinctively seems to understand these concerns. His remark on Tuesday that “there is such a thing as society; it’s just not the same thing as the State”, was a nod to where the new faultline will be in British politics. Tony Blair’s Third Way has delivered an awful lot of State.


Can it be? A major party in the English-speaking world standing up for liberty as in the olden time? A conservative party, no less. Now if somebody would encourage the libertarian conservative wing of the Republican party (all five of them) to follow suit here in the States, we'd be getting somewhere.