David Runciman is Professor of Politics at Cambridge University and the author of many books, including most recently How Democracy Ends (2018), Where Power Stops (2019) and Confronting Leviathan (2021).  His new book, The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and Artificial Intelligence, will be published in August this year.  He was the host of the weekly Talking Politics podcast from 2016-22 and he writes regularly about politics for the London Review of Books, where he is a Contributing Editor.