Elon Musk is the world’s richest man – with a penchant for politics. The 54-year-old is estimated to have a net worth of $852bn and is closing in (he hopes) on becoming the world’s first trillionaire.

But it is his full-throated embrace of right-wing politics that has brought him more attention lately than any of his businesses such as Tesla, SpaceX and X (formerly Twitter).

While politicians like Donald Trump have a shelf life mandated by political norms, no such constraints apply to Musk, which makes the question of his future plans so pressing for, whether it likes it or not, the entire world.

So, what will Elon Musk do next? Chris Stokel-Walker, a technology journalist, James Ball, the political editor of The New World, and Zing Tsjeng, a freelance writer and broadcaster, offer their perspectives.

Elon Musk’s first wife, Justine, once described one of the warning signs that their marriage was doomed to fail. “As we danced at our wedding reception, Elon told me, ‘I am the alpha in this relationship,’” she wrote in her tell-all account of their relationship.

That desire for dominance plays out again and again in the life of the world’s richest man.

It is in Musk’s testy, on-again-off-again political relationship with Donald Trump (a recent picture of the pair at dinner in Mar-a-Lago suggests that the........

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