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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Emma Brockes

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

An image of a phone showing Elon Musk's X account, with a union jack in the background.
‘Musk has pre-existing beef with Britain and Europe over their toughening stance towards platforms that violate content laws.’ Photograph: Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

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?

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