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Terrorism Bill

The noble Baroness wants us to postpone argument on these amendments on the basis of unspecified promises on some future unspecified amendment. At the very least I hope she will tell us under which group of amendments we will discuss intent so that if she wants me to hold my horses, I can. As the noble Lord, Lord Ahmed, said, every single one of us in the course of our lives, at some time or another, has glorified terrorism. I cannot believe that when the noble Baroness and her colleague on the Front Bench were young they did not support some of the then terrorist movements which were fashionable. For myself, I supported Robin Hood and Hereward the Wake. It is a part of wishing people to be free, as the noble Lord, Lord Ahmed, said, that one is prepared to contemplate for them measures which go beyond the ordinary. We must be careful of exactly who we are criminalising. I do not feel entirely comfortable with having our discussion cut short now without really being told why.