'The Politics of Good Intentions' [14min @13:00]

In the wake of 9/11, politicians have claimed we are at an increased risk from terrorist attacks and their actions to deal with this risk spring from good intentions. Laurie Taylor is joined by Dr David Runciman and Sir Bernard Crick to discuss whether we are actually witnessing 'politics of good intentions', or whether politicians are exploiting the language of risk for their own ends. Runciman is Lecturer in Political Theory at Cambridge University and author of The Politics of Good Intentions: History, Fear and Hypocrisy in the New World Order (Princeton University Press). Crick is author of In Defence of Politics (Continuum International Publishing Group) recently retired after twelve years as chief judge of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing to ask what kind of politics we are currently witnessing and whether politicians are exploiting the language of risk for their own ends.