Ok, it's hardly world peace, but it looks like the government might be planning to get rid of bike bells, give electric bikes more va-va-voom, make bike racing easier, and allow your council to convert all the footpaths to cyclepaths (well, maybe that last one might be a bit optimistic)
http://assets.dft.gov.uk/consultations/gov-20110520/rtc-road-transport-summary.pdf
Page 37.
Of course for balance, there might be another bit where there no long criminalise running over cyclists, but I haven't spotted it yet 
