They say Musk has turned the GOP into the new punk rock but I say ‘never mind the bollocks’

If there's an escape from the omnipresence of Elon Musk it's this: throw your phone in the sea, sing and dance, and stay out all night

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Elon, enough! In the past two weeks, the world's richest man has teased economic Armageddon in the US, spruiked for a violent far-right extremist and meddled in the domestic political affairs of at least two sovereign nations.

There's more. A lover's quarrel with Nigel Farage? Something gamechanging" to do with crypto? It takes a fine talent to make omnidirectional megalomania boring, but our boy has done it. His purchase of Twitter has transformed the site from a hubbub of views to a rightwing toilet of whatever his brain is farting that day.

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