Elon Musk’s rage-fests on X make it clear that he wants something. I think I know what it is

What, as they say, is Elon Musk’s deal? There will be a lot of justifiably righteous commentary about his hijacking of the debate around sexually abused girls in the north of England this week, but why this particular meltdown and why now?

On Tuesday, after attacking Keir Starmer and Jess Phillips, the world’s richest man waxed lachrymose about his British “Nana”, a woman identified as Cora Amelia Musk, nee Robinson, and the mother of Musk’s father, Errol. Errol Musk, you may recall, grew up to father two children with his own stepdaughter, so perhaps poor Elon has simply been triggered?

Lest the point need making again: Elon Musk has thrown in his lot with Donald Trump, a man legally defined as a sexual predator, so we can assume that his end goal here is not to improve the lives of girls and women. Along with Mark Zuckerberg, who announced in a video address this week that Europe is “institutionalising censorship”, Musk has pre-existing beef with Britain and Europe over their toughening stance towards platforms that violate content laws. After the riots in England and Northern Ireland last August, Starmer warned social media platforms that users promoting misinformation that led to violence would face prosecution, the kind of........

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