Muted cheer?

Have to applaud the Coalition's (well the LibDem's really) proposed Protection of Freedoms Bill - long overdue piece of legislation.  Of course the problem is that many of the freedoms which it proposes to give back to us were eroded away as a result of knee-jerk reaction legislation following some headline-grabbing incident, and there is not (and cannot be) any guarantee that something similar will not happen in the future.  The understandable but dangerous need to be seen to be "doing something" is responsible for much of what this Bill seeks to redress.