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Terrorism Bill

My Lords, I hope it is not wishful thinking on my part to hope that some people who were uncommitted at the start of the debate will have been converted by that powerful argument. With no disrespect to the noble Earl, Lord Onslow, I think that rather than quoting Kipling, the more appropriate poet to be quoting this evening would be Robert Burns, as the Minister pointed out earlier. I searched through his collected works, but I could find very little about terrorism, so it is difficult to use him in that respect. I do not want to quote too much from the great bard, because I know from experience elsewhere that it causes problems for Hansard reporters. I shall give one quotation, which I use and think about a lot:"““O wad some Power the giftie gie us       To see oursels as ithers see us!””" That gift was recently given to me through the power of the noble Baroness, Lady Lockwood, when she pointed out that, in Committee, perhaps my experience elsewhere had made me a little too strident, political and harsh when we were arguing about 90 days.