Member

However, we cannot ignore the fact that there has been a huge increase in the glorification of terrorism in this country in the last couple of years. We have only to look outside the door of this building where people demonstrated week after week. We understand that there was the Palestine Action thing; people said that the Government were wrong to do that and hundreds of people were arrested, and so on. We understand that there are issues where you have to be careful what you do with the legislation, but we simply cannot bury our heads in the sand and pretend that it is not happening. Look at what is going on in the universities. Universities have always been hotbeds of rebellion over the years, and we have all probably been part of it—I will not go into some of our histories around the place—but we also have hate preachers in certain parts of the country, openly and brazenly encouraging their flocks and designating certain individuals, groups and nations, legitimising what they might do if they take action against those individuals, groups or nations. We just cannot ignore it, but there is a temptation to do so, and I hope we resist it.