Writer and philosopher

Trust

Politics, Trust

How Brexit Was Scuppered By a Lack of Trust

In an extract from my forthcoming book Blockchain Politics, I describe how social and political trust are essential for cross-party, multi-electoral projects which chart a nation’s …

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Computing/Internet, Politics, Trust

Trustworthy Supply of Information

In an extract from my forthcoming book Blockchain Politics, I describe the characteristics of a trustworthy supplier of information or news. These characteristics don’t seem …

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Politics, Trust

Norms, the Elites and the Defence of the Realm

In my forthcoming book Blockchain Politics, I try to debunk the excessive pessimism of a recent book review by The Economist’s Free Exchange columnist. The …

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Politics, Trust

The Puritans and the Peasants

The opening of my forthcoming book with Edward Elgar, Blockchain Politics, setting the scene for its analysis of trust in the context of the zealotry …

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Politics, Trust

Blockchain Politics

I’m very excited to see my forthcoming new book, Blockchain Politics: Ideology and the Crisis of Social Trust, appearing on the website of the publishers, …

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