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Elon Musk is right and Richard Tice is wrong – batteries are the ‘new oil’

Richard Tice calls battery sites a menace. Nigel Farage brands them a con. Reform-led councils have already put the brakes on projects that could store about six gigawatts of clean power, enough to run six million homes. Social media carries those claims far and fast, yet the evidence behind them is wafer thin. A battery storage site is not […]

Sorcha Eastwood: ‘US talks must not trade away our online safety to Trump and Musk’

Every parent knows the internet can be a dark, dangerous place for children. We’ve seen the worst of it — from tragic deaths, horrific abuse, radicalisation, and the rise in misogyny and violence levied against women and girls. Algorithms aren’t neutral. They’re designed to maximise engagement, even if it means driving users toward hate and […]

Senior Kemi Badenoch ally hails Trump and Musk’s ‘refreshing dynamism’

A senior Tory has hailed Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s “dynamism”, calling it “relatively refreshing”. Andrew Griffith, a close ally of Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch, said the US administration has a got a “clear set of plans” and is willing to confront “some of the big challenges that all Western economies face.” The shadow […]

Elon Musk’s meddling shows why laws to safeguard UK democracy must be updated

Foreign interference in UK democracy is a live threat: laws to prevent such interference play an integral role in defending our democracy. There have long been calls to bring these laws into the twenty-first century – and this overhaul is now critical. To see why our electoral guard-rails aren’t clear or strong enough, just look […]

British public opinion more negative of Elon Musk after recent interventions, poll finds

Elon Musk has damaged his already poor reputation in the UK after a social media deluge over the handling of child sex grooming cases in the 2010s, a new poll has found. The South African-born billionaire spent much of the last week attacking the prime minister over his opposition to another national inquiry into grooming […]

Week-in-Review: The spectre of Elon Musk will continue to haunt Starmer

Consider the political landscape from our prime minister’s perspective. The richest man in the world is pursuing a sudden but profound grudge against your premiership, promulgating conspiracist invective from the seat of his social media fiefdom. He has referred to one of your ministers, whose expertise and counsel you value, as a “rape genocide apologist”. […]

The Elon Musk saga has exposed Reform’s soft underbelly

Just a few short weeks ago, tech billionaire Elon Musk and bullish populist Nigel Farage met in the United States to discuss, among other things, the prospect of a hefty donation. Reports at the time suggested Musk could transfer Reform as much as $100m to bolster the party’s “professionalisation” bid ahead of the 2029 general […]

Starmer hits back at Elon Musk: ‘Desperate for attention’ and ‘spreading lies’

Keir Starmer appeared to accuse Elon Musk of “spreading lies” in a lengthy public statement following weeks in which the tech billionaire has criticised his government. After delivering a speech on reducing NHS waiting lists, the prime minister was asked if he was angry about Musk’s denunciation of Jess Phillips, the safeguarding minister. Last week, […]

Keir Starmer ‘led the way’ on tackling grooming gangs, says minister

A government minister has said Elon Musk is “wrong” about Keir Starmer’s record tackling grooming gangs. Karin Smyth, a minister at the Department of Health and Social Care, argued the prime minister “led the attack” on rape gangs as the director of public prosecutions and head of the crown prosecution service from 2008 to 2013. […]