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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Emma Brockes

Digested week: I agree with Jeremy Clarkson – my enemy’s enemy is still kind of a jerk

Street scene with person sitting on bench below poster of Musk standing on car giving apparent Nazi-style salute with a couple of other people to left and a parked vehicle
A poster in Broadstairs, England, ridiculing Elon Musk and Tesla. Photograph: Krisztián Elek/Sopa Images/Rex/Shutterstock

Monday

With all the other conflicts going on in the world right now, Elon Musk v Jeremy Clarkson is one we could probably safely afford to sit out. I am weak-willed, however, and click through to the story in the Times to test the principle of “my enemy’s enemy is my friend”. Musk is a real villain and Clarkson is just a motormouth, but I suspect the latter – for reasons of basic functionality and the sort of flippant humour with which Musk seems ill-equipped to cope – is capable of getting the better of the world’s richest man, should these latest remarks of Clarkson’s come to his attention.

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