AC Grayling

Writer and philosopher, AC Grayling

In a HARDtalk interview broadcast on 9 July 2009, Stephen Sackur talks to the writer and philosopher, AC Grayling.

He argues that individual liberties are not only threatened by terrorism but by government responses to those threats.

From the treatment of suspects, to personal data collection and police surveillance he sees governments undermining cherished individual rights.

Is this a timely warning or a misreading of the 21st century balance between freedom and security?

AC Grayling talks to Stephen Sackur.

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