I want one too!

A First Lady with common sense, a dedication to liberty and the courage to express them, that is...

Cherie Blair yesterday made an extraordinary criticism of her husband's government as she called for the judiciary to stand up to the 'hurly-burly of majoritarian politics' in the war on terror.

Judges, she said, should resist political pressure over the conviction of suspected extremists and uphold human rights legislation.

She spoke as Mr Blair was making the opposite case, recounting how judges had thwarted his attempts to throw out extremists and complaining that 'we still have not woken up to what this thing is about.'

Pardon me while I swoon.

(Via, like so much of the good stuff, James Wolcott.)