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Terrorism Bill

Of course there are some very complex and difficult questions in relation to determining when terrorism is terrorism. We have discussed this not least because of the innate difficulties in the changes that we propose. We have spoken today and on other days about whether the change of the definition is merited, and what the noble Lord, Lord Carlile, will suggest to us when he reports. We do, however, now have a pressing difficulty. We have been very clear. We need to remind ourselves of the context in which we currently live, where suicide bombers and acts of terror are outwith the sort of buildings or matters the noble Baroness speaks of. The terrorism that we are dealing with on a day-to-day basis is a terror which takes lives and which visits huge mayhem on those who are innocent of any degree of culpability at all. Where one stimulates and encourages such acts of terror, it is critical to look at those issues.