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From the Telegraph, at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/09/16/nterr116.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/09/16/ixnewstop.html

But the difficulty will be deciding what constitutes glorification and there will be freedom of speech issues that Parliament will have to grapple with when the legislation is debated. According to Liberty, the human rights group, the Bill is so widely drawn that someone could be found guilty of encouraging terrorism - and jailed for up to seven years - even when he had no such intention of doing so.

There is also a curious cut-off period proposed in the Bill. Anyone glorifying an act of terrorism that took place longer than 20 years ago will only commit an offence if the Home Secretary deems that the event is covered by the law.

In other words, he may stipulate that glorifying the actions of Nelson Mandela in the 1950s is lawful but not of the Black September movement in the 1970s. Liberty said that this provision ''is so broad that the Home Secretary will take powers to determine which historical figures were terrorists and which freedom fighters".