The security trap is the idea that we want government to protect us from criminals and terrorists but not at the cost of making us all live in a tyrannical situation. Security forces are overreaching their powers too far, says Michael Kavnett. We need strong omniscient oversight when it comes to protecting ourselves online so Ben will walk us through one more trap that be devil's modern politics on tomorrow's show.
Today, Ben explains why democracy and security are such uneasy bedfellows.
• Ben Ansell is professor of comparative democratic institutions at Oxford and author of “Why Politics Fail”
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