Spiked Reports: Silicon Valley used to be a place of innovation, dynamism and ambition. A place where hard-working people could make the products of the future, and make something of themselves, too. But no more. The forward-thinking engineers of old have been replaced by a new elite, made up mainly of financiers, media types and NGO bureaucrats.

The new overlords of tech are more interested in virtue-signalling and woke proselytising than in building and making things. Theirs is a world built on the sand of cheap credit and Democratic Party largesse, as shown by the bailout of Silicon Valley Bank earlier this month. And it’s a world increasingly removed from the rest of America.

So what happened to Silicon Valley? How did the tech elites lose touch with reality? And what does that mean for US politics? To answer these questions and more, Joel Kotkin – spiked columnist and author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism – joined Brendan O’Neill on his podcast, The Brendan O’Neill Show.